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On this date: Congress passes the 13th AmendmentOn January 31, 1865, the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery in the United ...
People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. The Thirteenth Amendment was intended to complete the destruction of slavery begun by the U.S. government during the ...
Jimmy Carter’s Education Legacy: The Birth of Bureaucratic Mediocrity Sexual Terrorism in Britain On December 6, 1864, less than one month after his reelection, President Abraham Lincoln sent to ...
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 ...
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