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Explain the value to the country for all states being mandated to ratify the 13th amendment as a condition for readmission

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The year after the amendment's passage, Congress used this power to pass the nation's first civil rights bill, the Civil Rights Act of 1866. Congress also required the former Confederate states to ratify the 13th Amendment in order to regain representation in the federal government.

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