What was the main aim of the enforcement acts passed between 1870 and 1871?

a] to prosecute anyone who threatened the civil rights of blacks after the civil war

b] to protect the southerners from unfair prosecution by the federal government after the war

c]to protect blacks from republicans who discriminated against them in public

d]to prosecute blacks if they tried to escape the south

The correct answer is A.

The Enforcement Acts were criminal codes issued to punish both states and citizens that were not respecting the provisions that had been included in the Reconstruction Amendments: 13th, 14th and 15th, issued after the US Civil War in 1865, 1868 and 1870 respectively.

These amendments abolished slavery and included the Equal Protection clause, that guaranteed equality of rights for all US citizens without discrimination in terms of race, color or previous condition of servitude.

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