Why did Congress pass the Enforcement Acts between 1870 and 1875?

Congress passed the Enforcement Acts to protect African Americans’ civil and voting rights during Reconstruction. The laws targeted groups such as the Ku Klux Klan that used violence and intimidation to prevent Black citizens from exercising those rights. Military districts in the South were established earlier, under Reconstruction Acts, not the Enforcement Acts.

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