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may 22, 1872 - Amnesty Act

Description:

law that reversed most of the penalties imposed on former Confederates by the Fourteenth Amendment. Specifically, the Act removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled.

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Date:

may 22, 1872
Now
~ 152 years ago