Question

African Americans were allowed to vote in the United States when A. Congress declared Southern voter eligibility laws illegal. B. Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment. C. Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860.

Answer 1

African Americans were allowed to vote in the United States when Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment. The Fifteenth Amendment prevents an American citizen from being denied the right to vote based upon their race, color, or previous condition of servitude.