As a candidate, Carter himself had said he advocated "pardon" (a term he preferred to amnesty). He said, "I do advocate a pardon for draft evaders. ... Now is the time to heal our country after
the Vietnam war. ... I hope to bring about an end to the divisiveness that has occurred
in our country as a result of the Vietnam war."
On his second day in office, President Carter in fact did pardon draft dodgers. This applied only to civilians who evaded the draft. It did not apply to active duty military personnel who went absent without leave (AWOL) or deserted their units during the war.
Answer:
making bureaucratic appointments
The colonists despised the new taxes imposed by the Stamp Act in 1765. The Stamp Act was a law that made it so American colonists must have a stamp on paper documents proving they paid a tax to the British government. This was one of the first taxes implemented by the British government on the American colonists and was the beginning of the end of Great Britian's rule in North America.