USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -After Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860 on the antislavery platform of the new Republican party, the Southern states seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America. The Civil War, which ultimately liberated the country’s slaves, began in 1861.

Detailed explanation-2: -President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free."

Detailed explanation-3: -A new chapter in American history opened as the Thirteenth Amendment, passed in January of 1865, was implemented. It abolished slavery in the United States, and now, with the end of the war, four million African Americans were free.

Detailed explanation-4: -By the time the war ended in 1865, about 180, 000 Black men had served as soldiers in the U.S. Army. This was about 10 percent of the total Union fighting force. Most-about 90, 000-were former (or “contraband”) enslaved people from the Confederate states.

Detailed explanation-5: -Slavery ended in and with the Civil War both because slaves sought their own freedom and because the Union Army demonstrated that the Confederate government could not make good on its promise to protect the property rights whites held in slavery.