Question

The excerpt below is from the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution.
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Source: National Archives and Records Administration/Public Domain
When it was first ratified, which group of people did this amendment address?
A
Chinese immigrants
B
Mexican immigrants
C
Asian-American men
D African-American men

Answer 1

D — African-American men. The 1870 Fifteenth Amendment was written after the Civil War to prohibit denying the vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, enfranchising formerly enslaved Black men.