RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
PRESIDENT LINCOLNS LEGACY
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Signing of the Emancipation Proclamation
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Ratifying new amendments to the U.S. Constitution
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Readmitting the former Confederate states
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Passed by Congress June 13, 1866, and ratified July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment extended liberties and rights granted by the Bill of Rights to formerly enslaved people.
Detailed explanation-2: -Civil War Amendments (Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments) | Constitution Annotated | Congress.gov | Library of Congress.
Detailed explanation-3: -13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865) Citation: The House Joint Resolution Proposing the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, January 31, 1865; Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress, 1789-1999; General Records of the United States Government; Record Group 11; National Archives.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Bill of Rights Many Federalists argued, as in Federalist No. 84, that the people surrendered no rights in adopting the Constitution. In several States, however, the ratification debate in some States hinged on the adoption of a bill of rights.