Question 8 (1 point) True or False: the Fifteenth Amendment allowed voting rights to women? B False True

## Step 1<br />The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1870, prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."<br />## Step 2<br />The amendment does not mention gender, and therefore did not grant women the right to vote.<br />## Step 3<br />It was the Nineteenth Amendment, ratified in 1920, that granted women the right to vote.