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=The Fifteenth Amendment=

The 15th Amendment was the last of the Recontructrion Amendments. It prohibited discrimination against voters on the basis of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." Before this individiual states decided who would be allowed to vote. There were reasons for supporting this amendment that went past the idealogy of equal rights and allowing blacks the right to have a say in the government. This was especially evident when Grant became President in a close race against Horatio Seymour. It was the support he got from black voters that made the difference in Grant winning the election, without it he would have lost.