Amnesty Act

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The Amnesty Act of 1872 was a United States federal law that removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the United States Civil War, except for very high positions. The Act pardoned over 150,000 former Confederate troops who had taken part in the war against the United States. The Amnesty act of 1872 helped to swing the political balance in the south, giving voting rights to the ex-Confederates who would most likely vote for the Democratic party.

PriorPresident Andrew Johnson had issued the Amnesty Proclamation, an executive order, on May 29, 1865, defining the general pardon that had been issued by President Lincoln in 1863.

 

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