Question

What did southern states have to do in order to be allowed back into the union?

Answer 1

Answer: Lincoln declared that they would have to accept the amendment and the new government. So they disband their old confederate government and make sure that office holder could never go back into politics. They want to ask for an official pardon from the president of the US. they also had to free the slaves

Answer 2

Lincoln declared that they would have to accept the amendments and the new government, disband their old confederate government, make sure that former office holders could never go back into politics, and ask for an official pardon from the President of the United States. They also had to free the slaves.