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The first Southern state to approve the Fourteenth Amendment and be readmitted to the Union was Louisiana?
No, that would be Tennesse.
What did southern states have to do before they could reenter the Union?
Before being readmitted to the Union, each southern state that had been part of the Confederacy had to ratify the fourteenth amendment.
What was the one main issue over the readmission of southern states?
Well, most of them were forced to accept the fourteenth amendment, thus implying that they needed to protect the Bill of Rights.
What year did Abraham Lincoln ended slavery?
Abraham Lincoln did not end slavery, per Se. The 13th Amendment abolished slavery. In 1863. President Lincoln wrote and issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which made slavery illegal in the Southern States, which had seceded from the Union (11 in total.) The 13th Amendment was passed in December of 1864.
Under the reconstruction act of 1867 what were the southern states required to do to re enter the union?
(1) They would have to approve new state constitutions that gave the vote to all adult men. (2) They would have to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.
