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D. each state had to adopt a new constitution.
Just took the test.
As part of the process of readmission to the Union as outlined in the Reconstruction Acts, each state had to adopt a new constitution.
According to the four Reconstruction Acts passed between 1867 and 1868, the conditions under which the Southern states would re-enter the Union were the following:
- The ten Southern states (South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, and North Carolina) had to be divided into five military districts, that would be ruled by a Union general until they fulfilled the next conditions.
- They had to approve the 14th Amendment (NOT the 13th), which ensured citizenship and equal rights for African Americans.
- And each state had to draft new states constitutions, people (both black and white men) had to vote on them, and lastly, the Congress had to approve the state constitution.