RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS
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Question
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General Lee’s surrender at Appommatox
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13th Amendment
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Emancipation Proclamation
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None of the above
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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: -With the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, four million African Americans-almost a third of the population of the South-became permanently free and slavery was abolished in the United States: Section 1.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.