<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_Era" id="mw0A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Reconstruction Era">Reconstruction Era</a>: President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant" id="mw0Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ulysses S. Grant">Ulysses S. Grant</a> signs the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_Act" id="mw0g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Amnesty Act">Amnesty Act</a> into law, restoring full <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_and_political_rights" id="mw0w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Civil and political rights">civil and political rights</a> to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.