History of the United States I / Unit 16 USH1 2300 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Enforcement Acts
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The idea
Congress created a joint select committee in eighteen seventy-one which took testimony from freed people and published a thirteen-volume report the following year.
In practice
The Enforcement Acts of eighteen seventy and seventy-one outlawing polling intimidation.
Where people slip
The Ku Klux Klan Act moved trials to federal courts rather than pro-Klan juries, let the president impose martial law, and gave Grant power to suspend habeas corpus.
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