The government adopted the Fifteenth Amendment to address the denial of voting rights to African American men in former Confederate states.
The government took the action of adopting the Fifteenth Amendment to resolve the issue of denying African American men the right to vote. The Fifteenth Amendment, passed in 1870, specifically prohibited states from denying the right to vote based on race, thus ensuring African American men's voting rights.
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