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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Which statement best explains why women's-rights activists were dissatisfied with the Fifteenth Amendment? (1 point) They believed states would be able to use the amendment to increase restrictions on women's political participation. They wanted the amendment to guarantee equal civil rights as well as equal voting rights. They worried that Congress wasn't given enough power to protect the rights granted in the amendment. They felt women should gain the right to vote at the same time emancipated slaves did.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

What do you think?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

No clue..

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Okay well what does the fifteenth amendment state? It prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

So why would this be a problem?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

B and C are ruled out, now it is either A or D. What do you think?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

A?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

@FEARLESS_JOCEY

OpenStudy (anonymous):

correct

OpenStudy (anonymous):

They believed states would be able to use the amendment to increase restrictions on women's political participation

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