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The Amnesty Act of May 22, 1872 was a United States federal law that removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War, except for "senators and Representatives of the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses and officers in the judicial, military, and naval service of the United States, heads of Departments, and foreign ministers of the United States.

The act was passed by the 42nd United States Congress and the original restrictive Act was passed by the United States Congress in May 1866.

The 1872 Act affected over 150,000 former Confederate troops who had taken part in the American Civil War.

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