Second Enforcement Act
Long title | An Act to amend an Act approved May thirty-one, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled "An Act to enforce the Rights of Citizens of the United States to vote in several States of this Union, and for other Purposes." |
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Nicknames | Civil Rights Act of 1871, Second Ku Klux Klan Act |
Enacted by | the 41st United States Congress |
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Statutes at Large | 16 Stat. 433–440 |
Codification | |
Acts amended | Enforcement Act of 1870 |
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The Second Enforcement Act of 1871, sometimes called the Civil Rights Act of 1871 or the Second Ku Klux Klan Act, 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 Era to combat attacks on the voting rights of African Americans from groups like the Ku Klux Klan.
Legislative history
Republican Representative John C. Churchill from New York introduced his bill H.R. 2634 in the 41st United States Congress. The bill was passed by Congress in February 1871 and signed into law by United States President Ulysses S. Grant on February 28, 1871.
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provisions
- Article I
- House Electors Qualifications Clause
- Congressional Elections Clause
- 1st Amendment
- 14th Amendment
- 15th Amendment
- 17th Amendment
- 19th Amendment
- 23rd Amendment
- 24th Amendment
- 26th Amendment
and agencies
- U.S. Department of Justice
- Enforcement Acts
- Enforcement Act of 1870
- Second Enforcement Act
- Ku Klux Klan Act
- Civil Rights Act of 1957
- Civil Rights Act of 1960
- Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act
- Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act
- National Voter Registration Act of 1993
- Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996
- Help America Vote Act of 2002
Voter access | |
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Vote denial | |
Vote dilution |
- Ballot access
- Campaign finance
- Citizenship
- Democratic backsliding in the United States
- Disfranchisement
- Election
- Election law
- Elections in the U.S.
- Electoral College
- Electoral reform
- Electoral system
- Ranked-choice voting in the U.S.
- National Voting Rights Museum
- Redistricting
- Secret ballot
- Suffrage
- Voter registration
- Voting
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