I believe the South should have been granted amnesty. I believe this because sending the South to jail or giving them fines would cause one if not all of three major problems.
     The first problem would be the South simply starting a second civil war, and everyone knows that will only cause a loop of awful fighting and aggression and increase the death count like nobody has ever seen. The second problem would leave the North and the South in a permanent hatred of each other, causing many problems in the political and social classes of our country. The third major problem that not granting the South amnesty would cause is fines so heavy that the South would be confined to poverty and forced to illegally use slavery and other cruel methods just to generate enough money to live on, recreating the South as it was before the Civil War.
     Moreover, not granting the South amnesty would cause major problems throughout the country, leaving permanent damage between the people of both sides.