The Slaughterhouse Cases: the court decided that the 14th amendment protected only the rights people had by virtue of citizenship, the right to interstate travel and the right to federal protection when traveling abroad. The court decided most of American civil rights were obtained through their citizenship in a state and that the amendment did not protect those rights.U.S. vs. Cruikshank: The court ruled that the 14th amendment did not give the federal government the right to punish individual whites who oppressed blacks.U.S. vs. Reese: The court ruled in favor of officials who barred African Americans from voting and ruled that the enforcement act of 1870 lacked the language to punish individuals for this

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