Question

Read the text excerpt and answer the question that follows:

"Now, in view of this entire disfranchisement of one-half the people of this country, and because women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of these United States."

Which amendment satisfied the goal described in this statement?

Fifteenth Amendment
Twenty-fourth Amendment
Nineteenth Amendment
Twenty-sixth Amendment

Answer 1

What do you think?

Answer 2

A

Answer 3

Incorrect the The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution 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."

Answer 4

D

Answer 5

Incorrect The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying citizens of the United States who are at least eighteen years old the right to vote.

Answer 6

C

Answer 7

Correct The 19th Amendment (1920) to the Constitution of the United States provides men and women with equal voting rights. The amendment states that the right of citizens to vote "shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."