USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Amnesty Act of 1872 is a United States federal law passed on May 22, 1872, which removed most of the penalties imposed on former Confederates by the Fourteenth Amendment, adopted on July 9, 1868.

Detailed explanation-2: -Congressional Amnesty Both chambers of the 40th–41st Congresses (1867–1871) established temporary select committees to consider petitions for the removal of legal and political disabilities imposed on former Confederates by the 14th Amendment.

Detailed explanation-3: -One of the most controversial uses of the presidential pardon occurred when President Andrew Johnson issued sweeping pardons to thousands of former Confederate officials and soldiers after the American Civil War officially ended on April 9, 1865.

Detailed explanation-4: -Abraham Lincoln The pardon excluded office holders of the Confederate government or persons who had mistreated prisoners. Congress, however, objected to Lincoln’s plans as being too lenient and refused to recognize delegates from the reconstructed governments of Louisiana and Arkansas.