The Fifteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution allowed blacks to vote. But more importantly it meant blacks were people and were to be counted as citizens. There were some problems with the Fifteenth Amendment. It had left out some specifics dealing with the issue. Henry Adams said, "It is more remarkable for what it does not than for what it does contain." What he was speaking of was what some states noticed about the less than strongly worded Fifteenth Amendment. Many states, both Northern and Southern, made it tough for blacks to vote. They impo
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