In March 1867 the Congress passed the Reconstruction Act, which imposed to the former Confederate States, with exception of Tennessee that had been readmitted to the Union in 1866, to be grouped into five military districts. Each district had to be ruled by a military governor .
Each State was to organise a convention to amend its own constitution in order to conform with the Constitution of the United States, including the incorporation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Only after accepting and carrying out the conditions provided for that sort of diktat, those States were readmitted in the Union between 1868 and 1870.
Confederate States of America
The Southern States seceded from 1860-1865, during the course of the Civil War.
Florida and South Carolina were the only Southern states to secede in 1860. The other 9 seceded in 1861.
The Confederate States of America, based in Richmond, Virginia.
Eleven slave states seceded. This included Texas, Louisiana,, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. Virginia seceded, then West Virginia seceded from Virginia and rejoined the Union.
Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America.(C.S.A)
The Southern states seceded from December of 1860 to April of 1861.
The upper southern states seceded when Lincoln was elected president of the United States.
a loose union of independent states; name of government used by the southern states that seceded during the Civil War
The Southern US states that seceded from the Union, formed a government called the Confederate States of America. The CSA first consisted of seven Southern states at the time of the attack on Fort Sumter. Shortly afterwards, eleven states had seceded.
Secessionist is an adjective that describes individuals or groups that have seceded, or separated, from an established organization. Secede is the verb form. Example: In 1861, eleven states seceded from the United States government and formed the secessionist government known as the Confederacy.
who had been recently elected as president of the United States when the southern states seceded
Eleven
seceded from the union
it leaves the union
Eleven