Answer to Question #279256 in History for mia

Question

Using the Enforcement Acts, who did Congress empower to stop the Ku Klux Klan and other white societies during Reconstruction?

Answer 1

Senator Oliver H.P.T. Morton, an Indiana Republican, submitted a resolution in December 1870 requesting that the president transmit any information he had about certain incidences of threatened resistance to the implementation of US laws. President Ulysses S. Grant provided various War Department reports related to occurrences in several southern states after the Senate passed Morton's resolution. Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts chaired the Select Committee of the Senate to Investigate the Alleged Outrages in the Southern States, which received these reports. The Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the State of Affairs in the Late Insurgent States expanded that mandate in the next Congress.