PSC 324 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Reconstruction Acts, Rutherford B. Hayes, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
11 Sep 2018
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The lost promise of reconstruction: the congressional plan for reconstruction. The federal courts" response: military tribunals, the constitutionality of the reconstruction, enforcement, and. Civil rights acts: the scope of the 14th amendment. Slaughterhouse causes, first cases that interprets the 14th amendment (1873) - majority opinion = justice miller. (1) military occupation (2) land reform (3) black suffrage (4) oath. Reconstruction acts of 1867: union army changes, administer test oath, helped black men to vote, army protected former slaves in voting. Enforcement acts of 1870-1871 (force acts, kkk act of 1871) Reference to section 5 of 14th amendment ( congress ) Kkk act: authorized president to suspend writ and call on militia when needed. Made it a crime that preventable force on free rights (like voting - enforced equal protection clause) Civil rights act of 1875: targets discrimination from private entities (public accommodations) like a restaurant or a hotel (private business for the public)
