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The Union victory meant that the southern states never actually left the Union, so they didn't need to be readmitted.
1871
Before being readmitted to the Union, each southern state that had been part of the Confederacy had to ratify the fourteenth amendment.
Promise to be good and stop using the N word
Tennessee was the first state to be readmitted into the Union on July 24th, 1866.
The Union victory meant that the southern states never actually left the Union, so they didn't need to be readmitted.
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1871
reconstruction
Just an agreement to abolish slavery
Before being readmitted to the Union, each southern state that had been part of the Confederacy had to ratify the fourteenth amendment.
Before being readmitted to the Union, each southern state that had been part of the Confederacy had to ratify the fourteenth amendment.
Promise to be good and stop using the N word
after the civil war all the southern states had to ratify the constitution to be readmitted into the union.
free the slaves.
1865-1877
Pledge Loyalty to the Union.