History of the United States II / Unit 1 USH2 0006 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Twenty Thousand Dollar Exception
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The idea
Johnson's amnesty excluded Confederate leaders, high-ranking officers, and anyone holding taxable property worth more than twenty thousand dollars.
In practice
The South's wealthiest planters applying to Johnson one by one for a personal pardon.
Where people slip
The threshold marked out the planter class by its wealth. Johnson could grant or withhold each of those pardons himself.
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