• The Enforcement Acts were three bills that were passed by the United States Congress between 1870 and 1871. They were criminal codes that protected African...
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    Eisenhower used an exception to the Posse Comitatus Act, derived from the Enforcement Acts, to send federal troops into Little Rock, Arkansas, during the 1957...
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    Supreme Court rulings extended federal enforcement of citizens' civil rights, the government revived the Enforcement Acts and the Klan Act from Reconstruction...
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    President to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. The act was the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by...
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    The Enforcement Act of 1871 (17 Stat. 13), also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, Third Enforcement Act, Third Ku Klux Klan Act, Civil Rights Act of 1871...
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    was a United States federal law. The act was the second of three Enforcement Acts passed by the United States Congress from 1870 to 1871 during the Reconstruction...
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    that outlawed the Republican Enforcement Acts; however, with the military underfunded, Hayes could not adequately enforce these laws. African-Americans...
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  • from its acts and consequences gather the designs which are locked up under such penalties. "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: The Enforcement Acts, 1870–1871"...
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    abolition of slavery explicitly prevented Black people from voting. The Enforcement Acts increased federal penalties for voter intimidation, particularly by...
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    officials, and abusive enforcement spurred colonial attacks on British ships, including the burning of the Gaspee in 1772. The Townshend Acts' taxation of imported...
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    Attorney General of California (category State law enforcement agencies of California)
    adequately enforced. Heads the Department of Justice, which is responsible for providing state legal services and support for local law enforcement. Acts as the...
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  • prohibiting race-based violence against African Americans (see also Enforcement Acts, three Acts in 1870–71) Civil Rights Act of 1875, prohibiting discrimination...
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    The party opposed Grant's Reconstruction policies, particularly the Enforcement Acts that destroyed the Ku Klux Klan. It lost in a landslide, and disappeared...
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    The Alien and Sedition Acts were a set of four laws enacted in 1798 that applied restrictions to immigration and speech in the United States. The Naturalization...
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  • A law enforcement agency (LEA) is any government agency responsible for law enforcement within a specific jurisdiction through the employment and deployment...
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    massacre of 1873 while attempting to defend their right to vote. The Enforcement Acts were passed by Congress in 1870–1871 to authorize federal prosecution...
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    marshals, who were vital to the enforcement of the Enforcement Acts. The election laws remained in effect, but the funds to enforce them were curtailed for the...
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  • nicknamed "The Enforcer" Enforcer, a cut down pistol configuration of the M1 carbine made by Iver Johnson The Enforcers (disambiguation) Enforcement, the process...
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  • had. The remaining cases were not tried, and prosecutions under the Enforcement Acts were all but abandoned after 1874. The Klan had been active in South...
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    administration Grant prosecuted and shut down the Ku Klux Klan under the Enforcement Acts he signed into law in 1870 and 1871. Grant, a trained military leader...
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    passage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960, the first civil rights bills passed by the U.S. Congress since the Enforcement Acts and the Civil Rights Act...
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    Law enforcement in Canada is the responsibility of police services, special constabularies, and civil law enforcement agencies, which are operated by...
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  • Ulysses S. Grant on April 20, 1871. The act was the last of three Enforcement Acts passed by the United States Congress from 1870 to 1871 during the Reconstruction...
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  • power of enforcement is included in a number of amendments to the United States Constitution. The language "The Congress shall have power to enforce this...
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  • The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is a law enforcement and economic intelligence agency of the Government of India. Established on May 1, 1956, it is responsible...
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  • who vigorously prosecuted the Ku Klux Klan in the South under the Enforcement Acts Adelbert Ames: Governor of Mississippi in 1868–1870 and 1874–1876 James...
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    Grant passed three Enforcement Acts, designed to protect black people and Reconstruction governments. Using the Enforcement Acts, Grant crushed the Klan...
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    prosecution and conviction of a few perpetrators at Colfax by the Enforcement Acts was appealed to the Supreme Court. In a major case, the court ruled...
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    Congress to enforce their provisions through "appropriate legislation". To enforce the Reconstruction Amendments, Congress passed the Enforcement Acts in the...
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  • changes, and the addition of enforcement mechanisms and staff. Additionally, a major change in the very purpose of the Acts in the 1760s—that of generating...
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