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brought to you by the reconstruction amendments The newest advancements

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in plastic surgery Well which amendment stated that the right

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to vote could not be denied on the basis of

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race And here the potential answer Well the united states

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faced an uphill battle in putting the country back together

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after the civil war So let's see which amendment pointed

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the nation down the winding road forty quality All right

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was the amendment banning racial discrimination in voting Aye the

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seventeenth amendments actually the seventeenth amendment allowed us senators to

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be elected by the general public rather than by state

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legislatures so option a isn't quite well popular enough for

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us was the right to vote regardless of race affirmed

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by sea than nineteenth amendment will The nineteenth amendment did

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have to do with voting rights but it banned discrimination

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on the basis of gender not race which is great

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but just not what we're looking for here was racial

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discrimination in voting banned by d the twenty fourth amendment

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but the twenty fourth amendment was also a big civil

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rights milestone but it's prohibited the use of a poll

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tax that's a voting poll tax not the north pole

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tax which may or may not be a real thing

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but theater way option d has to go What about

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e twenty sixth amendment Another voting rights issue But the

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twenty sixth amendment altered the voting Age from twenty one

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to eight eighteen So no more fake id's poles for

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all those youngsters hoping to get their voices heard But

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if he doesn't stand for equality well that means the

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right to vote regardless of race was affirmed by be

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the fifteenth amendment fifteenth amendment which granted voting rights to

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all men regardless of race was one of the three

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post civil war amendments that dramatically expanded rights for former

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slaves and their descendants Next up the thirty second amendment 00:01:53.73 --> [endTime] which no boy isn't even a thing

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