-HN+Recon+Political

- Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Policies- -Ulysses Grant's Reconstruction Policies- -Republican Reconstruction- -Military Reconstruction- -Reconstruction Legislation- -Johnson's Struggle with Congress- -13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments- -Enforcement Act 1870- Enacted March 31, 1870, the Enforcement Act, followed by two similarly-purposed acts, was intended to protect the citizen's right to vote and to bolster the 15th Amendment by protecting the right of African-Americans to vote. Though the act did produce several trials of those who had impeded the voting process, few were convicted because blacks were afraid to testify and whites did not agree with the act. The act diminished after 1874. -Tenure of Office Act 1867- Passed on March 2, 1867, the act stated that federal officials who were appointed with the confirmation of the Senate could not be removed from their posts without the permission of the Senate. This law was considered unconstitutional and defied by President Andrew Johnson, who attempted to replace his radical reconstructionist Secretary of War Edwin Stanton with General Lorenzo Thomas; his actions led to impeachment proceedings. The act was not repealed until 1887, and in 1826, the //Myers vs. United States// Supreme Court case led to the ruling that such a law was unconstitutional. -Election of 1876 (Ends Reconstruction)- Democrat Samuel Tilden faced Republican Rutherford B. Hayes in this controversial election. Tilden clearly won the popular vote, but no candidate had a majority in electoral votes, with votes in dispute in South Carolina, Louisiana, and Florida, where Reconstruction governments were still in place. Each submitted two electoral ballots, one for Tilden and one for Hayes, and event not porvided for in the Constitution. Congress appointed an Electoral Commission, which elected Hayes with an 8-7 vote. In the Compromise of 1877 between the two parties, the Democrats accepted the decision of the Commission.