Washington D.C. (WHTM) On January 31, 1865, the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended ...

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865.

Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment nearly 154 years ago — Jan. 31, 1865 to be exact — by a vote of 119-56. The Civil War would end later that year, but President Abraham Lincoln, compelled by ...

On Dec. 18, 1865, Secretary of State William Seward certified that the Thirteenth Amendment is now a part of the Constitution. Eric Foner though commented that, although the day is important in U ...

“The American Civil War has an official end date, and that end date is August 1866,” Vorenberg said. Notably, the official ...

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Q: Why didn’t the 13th Amendment forbid forced labor in prisons? Because former slave states had to ratify the 1865 amendment, it was the product of compromise. At the time, plantations and ...

Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...

An ad hoc committee formed to find a use for the $6.5 million new and vacant Altoona Restoration Center at Fourth Street and Lexington Avenue, Msgr. Joseph M. Luddy chairman, suggested Altoona and ...

Secretary of State William Henry Seward proclaims on December 18, 1865, that there will be no human bondage. Mississippi ratifies the 13th Amendment in 1995. 250 YEARS AGO: BRUSHED BY HISTORY ...

1790: Virginia's slave population was over 292,000. Free Blacks numbered about 11,000. 1863-70: Emancipation Proclamation (1863), 13th Amendment abolished slavery (1865), 14th Amendment granted ...