The Shoffner Act was a statute intended to restore order in North Carolina counties where Ku Klux Klan (KKK) violence raged. Introduced by Alamance County...

The Comstock Act of 1873 is a series of current provisions in Federal law that generally criminalize the involvement of the United States Postal Service...

Shoffner is a surname. People with that name include: Bob Shoffner (1900–83), American jazz trumpeter John Shoffner Martha Shoffner (born 1944 or 45)...

both areas to be in a state of insurrection. In accordance with the Shoffner Act, Holden ordered a militia be raised to restore order in the counties...

Wikisource has original text related to this article: Civil Rights Act of 1866 The Civil Rights Act of 1866 (14 Stat. 27–30, enacted April 9, 1866, reenacted 1870)...

the Currency as part of the United States Department of the Treasury. The Act shaped today's national banking system and its support of a uniform U.S....

The General Mining Act of 1872 is a United States federal law that authorizes and governs prospecting and mining for economic minerals, such as gold,...

The Amnesty Act of 1872 is a United States federal law passed on May 22, 1872, which removed most of the penalties imposed on former Confederates by the...

The Coinage Act of 1873 or Mint Act of 1873 was a general revision of laws relating to the Mint of the United States. By ending the right of holders of...

The Tenure of Office Act was a United States federal law, in force from 1867 to 1887, that was intended to restrict the power of the president to remove...

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clear constitutional directive, Congress passed the Electoral Commission Act, which established a 15-member commission of eight Republicans and seven...

The Enforcement Act of 1870, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1870 or First Ku Klux Klan Act, or Force Act (41st Congress, Sess. 2, ch. 114, 16 Stat...

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Naturalization Act of 1870 Kirk–Holden war Shoffner Act 1870 elections 1870 State of the Union Address 1871 Ku Klux Klan hearings Second Enforcement Act Ku Klux...

result, the US Congress passed the Coinage Act of 1873, which changed the national silver policy. Before the Act, the US had backed its currency with both...

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reconstructed Southern states, in accordance with the First Reconstruction Act. Incumbent president Andrew Johnson had succeeded to the presidency in 1865...

a full section), depending on the act, and earlier homesteading occurred under statutes such as the Preemption Act of 1841. Freedmen were not generally...

responsibilities of the office." Congress would eventually enact the Electoral Count Act in 1887 to provide more detailed rules for the counting of electoral votes...

The Civil Rights Act of 1875, sometimes called the Enforcement Act or the Force Act, was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction...

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the military nature of the conspiracy and the facts that the defendants acted as enemy combatants and that martial law was in force at the time in the...

groundwork for further reform in the 1880s and 1890s. He vetoed the Bland–Allison Act of 1878, which put silver money into circulation and raised nominal prices...

allegedly not complying with law and order using the passage of the Shoffner Act. A Republican Party coalition of black freedmen, northern carpetbaggers...

the armed service of the United States. ... And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military...

The Electoral Commission Act (19 Stat. 227) was signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on January 29, 1877. The Act provided that the Electoral...

main Republican Party. A sizable minority led by James A. Bayard sought to act independently of the Liberal Republican ticket, but the bulk of the party...

Party led a group of approximately 500 men across the Missouri River in an act of solidarity with the nearly 1,000 workers on strike. It was a catalyst...

With new powers granted to him by the state legislature under the 1870 Shoffner Act, he called out the militia against the Klan in 1870, imposed martial...