What has happened to each group?

1. Group X has had its voting rights abridged; group Z has had its rights denied.

2. Group X has had its voting rights abridged; group Z has had its rights ignored.

3. Group X has had its voting rights ignored; group Z has had its rights denied.

4. Group X has had its voting rights denied; group Z has had its rights abridged.

4. Group X has had its voting rights denied; group Z has had its rights abridged.

Scenario: It is election day. group x appears at the polls, but each member of that group is turned away and not allowed to vote. group z appears as well; group z's members are allowed to vote as long as they brought a utility bill validating their address.

Explanation: The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. constitution forbade the denial of a citizen’s right to vote.

Denial of voting rights is when an individual is not allowed to vote at all. In the question above, this is what happened to Group X.

Abridgment of the right to vote is putting a restriction on an individual’s right to vote, such as adding other requirements other than those in the constitution. Asking for a utility bill is an example of this.

regarding the law, the 15th amendment was specifically designed thinking in the rights of black free men.

even though ratified on february 3, 1870, the promise of the 15th amendment would not be fully applied for a long time.poll taxes and literacy tests would allow southern states disenfranchise african americans. only in 1965 the voting rights for african americans would be actually able to vote in the south.

in 1965, president johnson signed the voting rights act, which aimed to overcome legal barriers that prevented african americans from voting as it was guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the u.s. constitution.