The Amnesty Act of May 22, 1872,…

May 1872 CE

The Amnesty Act of May 22, 1872, a United States federal law, removes voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War, except for some five hundred military leaders of the Confederacy.

The original restrictive Act had been passed by the United States Congress on May 1866.

The 1872 Act affects over one hundred and fifty thousand former Confederate troops who had taken part in the American Civil War.

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