The fifteenth amendment, ratified in 1870, mandated that

Firstly this mandated that no state could deny the right to vote on because of gender.
Secondly, use of literacy tests was forbidden in federal elections.
Lastly,no state could prevent the right to vote because of race.

Cherokee  removal, part of the trail of tears, refers to the  forced  relocation between 1836 and 1839 of thecherokee  nation from  their lands ingeorgia, south carolina, north carolina, tennessee, texas, and alabama to the indian territory (present day oklahoma)  in  the thenwestern united states, and the resultant deaths