Question

The _____ gave the federal government more power to intervene when state and local governments failed to protect the rights of citizens.

A.
Reconstruction Amendments

B.
Enforcement Acts

C.
Reconstruction Acts

D.
Civil Rights Acts

Answer 1

A. Reconstruction amendments

Answer 2

It is not the reconstruction amendments! It is B. The Enforcement Acts. It was created so that African Americans would have their rights protected after slavery was abolished and Southern (and Northern) states started passing black codes and Jim Crow laws to segregate and restrict their rights.