Which legislation was responsible for granting voting rights for african
americans?
a. the twenty-sixth amendment
b. the thirteenth amendment
c. the fifteenth amendment
d. the nineteenth amendment

The correct answer is C. The Fifteenth Amendment was responsible for granting voting rights for African Americans.

Explanation:

The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, proposed on February 26, 1869, ratified on February 3, 1870, guarantees the right to vote to African Americans.

The purpose of this amendment was to completely free the former slaves. Although some States granted voting rights to former slaves even before their adoption, this right was rare, poorly enforced and often undermined. Thus, while the Supreme Court of North Carolina had ratified the possibility of voting for free black men, amendments to the North Carolina constitution took away that right in 1868.

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