Question 98: When did all men get the right to vote?

Official answers (any one counts)

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• After the Civil War
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• During Reconstruction
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• (With the) 15th Amendment
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• 1870
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In 1870, after the Civil War, the 15th Amendment said no man could be kept from voting because of race.

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• In 1776
• After World War II
• After the War of 1812

Video lesson on this topic: The 1800s

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