History of the United States I / Unit 16 USH1 2284 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Fifteenth Amendment
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The idea
Grant won a landslide over Democrat Horatio Seymour in November eighteen sixty-eight, Democrats carrying what the anchor calls the stigma of disunion.
In practice
Republicans blaming Democrats for the war, a tactic southerners called waving the bloody shirt.
Where people slip
The Fourteenth had not explicitly barred states from withholding the franchise by race, so a third amendment was drafted in the winter of eighteen sixty-nine.
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