History of the United States II / Unit 1 USH2 0005 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Johnson's Amnesty
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The idea
Andrew Johnson's Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, issued in May eighteen sixty-five, offered a sweeping pardon to former Confederates.
In practice
Confiscated property returned to its owners, except the people they had enslaved.
Where people slip
The one requirement was to affirm support for the Constitution. Johnson's terms were far milder than the Wade-Davis majority oath.
Your place on the trail
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