Enforcement Acts

Enforcement Acts

The Enforcement Acts in the United States from 1870 to 1871 were meant to protect rights of southern blacks following ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution as part of Reconstruction.

One protected black votes; another provided federal supervision of southern elections; and another strengthened sanctions against those who attacked blacks or prevented them from voting, and allowed the President to use troops to enforce the law and suspend habeas corpus — it was also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act.

External links

* [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_enforce.html PBS article on Enforcement Acts]
* [http://ttokarnak.home.att.net/14AEActs.html Review and text of the four Acts]


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