Members of this organization were only prosecuted in federal courts by the Third Enforcement Act. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this white supremacist organization formed by Nathan Bedford Forrest that attacked African-Americans during the Reconstruction Era.
ANSWER: Ku Klux Klan [or the KKK; accept the Klan]
[10h] Under the Third Enforcement Act, members of the KKK were prosecuted by Amos Akerman and this first Solicitor General. This man broke up the Whiskey Ring as Ulysses Grant’s Secretary of the Treasury.
ANSWER: Benjamin Bristow [or Benjamin Helm Bristow]
[10m] This historian called the Third Enforcement Act a success, stating that it had “broken the Klan’s back.” This historian of mid-19th century American history wrote about Reconstruction as “America’s unfinished revolution.”
ANSWER: Eric Foner
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