History of the United States II / Unit 1 USH2 0027 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Enforcement Acts
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The idea
Congress answered the Klan with three Enforcement Acts in eighteen seventy and eighteen seventy-one, moving crimes against freed people into federal courts.
In practice
The third, the Ku Klux Klan Act, letting President Grant suspend habeas corpus.
Where people slip
The acts also outlawed intimidation at the polls. The Klan Act passed in April eighteen seventy-one.
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