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- what legislation made it a federal offense to interfere with a citizens right to vote?○ fourteenth amendment○ wade-davis bill○ fifteenth amendment○ enforcement acts
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The Enforcement Acts (1870-1871) were federal laws that criminalized interference with citizens' right to vote, targeting violence and intimidation of Black voters in the post-Civil War South. The Fourteenth Amendment established citizenship and equal protection, the Fifteenth Amendment prohibited racial voting discrimination but did not create federal criminal penalties for interference, and the Wade-Davis Bill was a Reconstruction-era proposal for readmitting Confederate states, unrelated to voting interference penalties.
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D. Enforcement Acts