On July 24, 1866, Congress passed a resolution readmitting Tennessee to the Union following the Civil War. Tennessee had been the first state to secede from the Union in 1861, but it was also the first to be readmitted after the war ended. This resolution marked a significant step in the Reconstruction era, which aimed to rebuild and reintegrate the Southern states that had seceded. Tennessee’s readmission paved the way for the eventual reintegration of other former Confederate states.
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