Question

To relieve itself of military occupation, each state had to do which of the following?

to repair all of its war-damaged land
to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment
create a state government acceptable to Congress
to guarantee black suffrage
to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment

Answer 1

Under Congressional (Radical) Reconstruction, southern states had to:
- Ratify the Fourteenth Amendment, and
- Create new state governments acceptable to Congress by writing constitutions that guaranteed black (male) suffrage.

They were not required to repair war‑damaged land, and the Thirteenth Amendment had already been passed (so its ratification was not the new condition).