2006-07-14 10:08:45 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
13th Amendment to the US Consitiution
It States:
AMENDMENT XIII
Passed by Congress January 31, 1865. Ratified December 6, 1865.
Section 1.
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.
Section 2.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
2006-07-14 10:12:19 · answer #1 · answered by bigtony615 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some of these answers are partly correct, but none of them are completely correct.
The Emancipation Proclamation freed only those slaves in territories then currently in rebellion against the United States. That did not include the Union but slave holding states of Kentucky, the newly formed W. Virginia, and other Union slave holding states. Lincoln could not afford to risk losing those states to the Union. The Southern states of course ignored this until the war was lost.
The final freeing of slaves was left up to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution in December of 1865.
Of course, the Civil War itself being won by the Union ensured that slavery was finished in the legal sense. But without the 13th amendment it would not have been law.
2006-07-14 10:22:22 · answer #2 · answered by Thom Thumb 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in the Union (north). The end of the Civil War freed the slaves in the Confederacy (south). I believe freeing their slaves was one of the requirements for the southern states before they could rejoin the Union.
2006-07-14 10:13:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Emancipation Proclamation unintentionally freed the slaves! Lincoln had another agenda when he wrote it! It was not about making all slaves free men!
2006-07-14 10:13:28 · answer #4 · answered by allknowing 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Economics. The industrialization of the North created a movement away from an agrarian society where slaves were economically worthwhile. If the entire country had been dependent on slaves economically, it would have been a different story.
2006-07-14 10:13:27 · answer #5 · answered by Torero In Red 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln and the 13th Ammendment.
2006-07-15 21:02:00 · answer #6 · answered by Ken W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Emancipation Proclomation
2006-07-14 10:11:14 · answer #7 · answered by Blunt Honesty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freedmen was the term given to those slaves who became free men after the U.S. Congress passed the Confiscation Act of 1862. You should really read the web site below
2006-07-14 10:11:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Somebody freed the slaves??????
2006-07-14 10:18:19 · answer #9 · answered by Fred Ziffell 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The North winning the war.
2006-07-14 10:11:02 · answer #10 · answered by Nostrum 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋