Editing Reconstruction era (section)

===Department of Justice created===
In 1870, to enforce Reconstruction, Congress and Grant created the [[United States Justice Department|Justice Department]] that allowed the Attorney General [[Amos Akerman]] and the first [[Solicitor General of the United States|Solicitor General]] [[Benjamin Bristow]] to prosecute the Klan.{{sfnp|Smith|2001|pp=543–545}}{{sfnp|Brands|2012|p=474}} In Grant's two terms he strengthened Washington's legal capabilities to directly intervene to protect citizenship rights even if the states ignored the problem.{{sfnp|Kaczorowski|1995}}