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Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
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Reconstruction era
Military occupation of southern US states from 1865 to 1877
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Ulysses S. Grant
Civil War general, U.S. president (1869-1877)
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1872 U.S. law revoking the punishments imposed by the 14th Amendment on most ex-Confederates
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Civil and political rights
Rights preventing the infringement of personal freedom by other social actors
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