Answer:
The former Confederate states were required to repay their war debts.
Step-by-step explanation:
- The Confederate states were the ones that had withdrawn themselves from the federal union of the USA because they desperately wanted their right to continue slavery to be preserved.
- These were 11 separate states that formed the southern part of the present-day US.
- Once the Confederate of States was dissolved to become a part of the USA back again, they were required to pay the debts that they had taken to wage the Civil War.