Read the following example of legal voting rights in Ohio in 1803 and the Fifteenth Amendment. Describe how the Fifteenth Amendment was an effort to reconcile the discrepancy between American ideals and public policies.

Question

Ohio State Constitution

“In all elections, all white male inhabitants above the age of twenty-one years, having resided in the State one year next preceding the election, and who have paid or are charged with a State or county tax, shall enjoy the right of an elector; but no person shall be entitled to vote, except in the county or district in which he shall actually reside at the time of the election . . . .”

Fifteenth Amendment

“SECTION 1. 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.

SECTION 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”

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Responses

Congress passed a law that removed voting restrictions based on race.
Congress passed a law that removed voting restrictions based on race.

Interest groups pressured lawmakers in Ohio to remove voting restrictions based on race.
Interest groups pressured lawmakers in Ohio to remove voting restrictions based on race.

Social movements organized at the grassroots level in Ohio to demonstrate against the law that restricts voting based on race.
Social movements organized at the grassroots level in Ohio to demonstrate against the law that restricts voting based on race.

Congress passed a law that removed voting restrictions based on gender. choose one answer

Answer 1

The best choice for describing how the Fifteenth Amendment was an effort to reconcile the discrepancy between American ideals and public policies is:

Congress passed a law that removed voting restrictions based on race.

This response aligns with the intention of the Fifteenth Amendment, which sought to ensure that race could not be used as a criterion for denying the right to vote, thus addressing the inequalities established in earlier state laws, such as those described in the Ohio State Constitution.