The Enforcement Acts, Passed by Congress in 1870 and 1871

question 81

Multiple Choice

The Enforcement Acts, passed by Congress in 1870 and 1871, were designed to

• A) end Reconstruction by allowing state governments to oversee citizenship rights.
• B) stop the activities of terrorist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.
• C) enforce the Emancipation Proclamation in the Confederate states.
• D) increase the authority of the Freedmen's Bureau.
• E) eliminate racial discrimination in public spaces such as hotels and theaters.

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