they had to form a new government with 50% saying slavery was illegal
A major requirement before the states could be readmitted is that they had to ratify the Emancipation Proclamation and abolish slavery in their boundaries in order to rejoin the Union
"They had to form a new government with 10% saying slavery was illegal" needed to happen before a state could be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War.
Answer: Option C
<u>Explanation:</u>
The recreation of the South after the civil war is called reconstruction. The reconstruction lasted from 1865 to 1877. The goal of reconstruction was to help southern countries re-join the Union. During reconstruction, federal troops occupied a significant portion of the south to ensure compliance with the law and the absence of a new uprising.
After ending the civil wars, Abraham Lincoln wanted states to join the union in a much more liberal manner. He eased the process for them and made it mandatory that is a state has to be rejoined to the union after ending the civil war, the state must create the new government with 10% saying that slavery was illegal. However the Congress was not in favor of this and made the laws more stringent for the southern states.
I believe that the Atlantic slave trade contributed to conditions that eventually led to the Haitian revolution by resulting in African slaves making up the vast majority of St Domingue's population thus giving them strength in numbers to overthrow a slave system and form their own sovereign government.
