The component of the Fifteenth Amendment that gave the right to vote for males no matter the race, and expressed that race is not enough to bar someone from voting, was what caused positive reactions amid Americans. However, this amendment had some holes in its structure that allowed people to work their way around from directly following its provisions. The Fifteenth Amendment would soon lead to acts and groups that made it extremely difficult for black suffrage, such as black codes and the KKK (Ku Klux Klan).