They had to dissolve their Confederate state governments, and re-apply for their place in the United States under the US Constitution.
The states that once were the Confederate States of America rejoined the Union in the 19th century.Georgia was the last Southern state to be fully readmitted to the US in 1870.
Tennessee
Alabama was readmitted in 1868.
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.
It was readmitted through the process of Reconstruction.
The Union victory meant that the southern states never actually left the Union, so they didn't need to be readmitted.
1865-1877
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1871
With exception of Tennessee, which was readmitted in 1866, the ten former Confederate States were readmitted between 1868 and 1870.
reconstruction
Just an agreement to abolish slavery
Promise to be good and stop using the N word
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.
after the civil war all the southern states had to ratify the constitution to be readmitted into the union.
The states that once were the Confederate States of America rejoined the Union in the 19th century.Georgia was the last Southern state to be fully readmitted to the US in 1870.