The Fifteenth Amendment was important to all African American men because

A. voting rights had been denied them in the South.
B. everyone knew Radical Reconstruction would not last.
C. it had been up to each state to determine voting rights.
D. they had not previously been allowed to vote in parts of the North.

1 answer

The correct answer is:

A. voting rights had been denied them in the South.

The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in 1870 and granted African American men the right to vote, which was significant because many Southern states used various methods to disenfranchise them after the Civil War.