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Events That Happened in Feb 1870
3 Feb 1870
The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (i.e., slavery). It was ratified on February 3, 1870.
The Fifteenth Amendment is one of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Feb 1870 Events
| 1870 Feb |
Mark Twain Marries Olivia "Livy" Langdon
Charles Langdon showed a picture of his sister, Olivia, to Twain; Twain claimed to have fallen in love at first sight. The two met in 1868, were engaged a year later, and married in Febru...
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| 1870 Feb 3 |
The Fifteenth Amendment is ratified
The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "r...
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| 1870 Feb 25 |
Hiram Revels Becomes the First African American Elected to US Senate
At the time, the state legislature elected US senators. Revels was elected by a vote of 81 to 15 in the Mississippi State Senate to finish the term of one of the state's two seats in the ...
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