MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE BILL OF RIGHTS THE CONSTITUTIONS FIRST 10 AMENDMENTS
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13th Amendment
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14th Amendment
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15th Amendment
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19th Amendment
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Detailed explanation-1: -Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
Detailed explanation-2: -Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is recognized by many as the formal abolition of slavery in the United States. However, it only ended chattel slavery – slavery in which an individual is considered the personal property of another.
Detailed explanation-4: -The 13th Amendment abolished slavery. The 14th Amendment gave citizenship to all people born in the US. The 15th Amendment gave Black Americans the right to vote.
Detailed explanation-5: -The 13th Amendment was necessary because the Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln in January of 1863, did not end slavery entirely; those ensllaved in border states had not been freed.