Question

1. choose the best answer.

president ____ supported the enforcement acts protecting the rights of freedmen to vote as well as legislation targeting acts of terrorism in the south.
james buchanan
ulysses s. grant
millard fillmore
andrew johnson

1. choose the best answer.

passage of the ____ in 1870 guaranteed the right of all american citizens to vote.
thirteenth amendment
enforcement act
fifteenth amendment
reconstruction voting act

Explanation:

1. Ulysses S. Grant was president during the Reconstruction era. He supported the Enforcement Acts which were aimed at protecting the voting rights of freedmen and combating terrorism (like the Ku Klux Klan) in the South. James Buchanan was president before the Civil War. Millard Fillmore was a pre - Civil War president. Andrew Johnson was a post - Civil War president but was more lenient towards the South and opposed many of the Reconstruction measures that protected freedmen.
2. The Fifteenth Amendment (ratified in 1870) states that "the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude". The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery. The Enforcement Acts were laws to enforce the Reconstruction Amendments (including the Fifteenth Amendment), but it was the Fifteenth Amendment itself that guaranteed the voting right. There is no "Reconstruction Voting Act" in the context of these well - known constitutional amendments.

Answer:

1. Ulysses S. Grant
2. Fifteenth Amendment