The abolition of slavery

The abolition of slavery

By early 1861, just before the beginning of the Civil War, serious economic and ideological differences divided the citizens of the United States.

In the North, slavery was legal for a time but slowly died out as the economic reasons for it declined.

In the South, however, slavery was highly profitable and plantation slave owners fought to keep slavery from ending.

In the first half of the 19th century, more and more Blacks were trying to escape slavery by running away from their slave owners and travelling secretly to the north. Since slavery was still legal and slaves were considered property, slave owners could legally hunt for their escaped slaves and seek to get their slaves back by several means.

The main points of contention ссора between the North and the South were slavery and the rights of the states with respect to the federal government. These growing differences also divided the country geographically. Nineteen states, including the industrialized northern states, prohibited slavery, while 15 southern states, whose society depended on agriculture, allowed the ownership of slaves. Seven of those 15 southern states left the Union and formed the Confederate States of America after Abraham Lincoln became the president of the United States.

Despite the hopes of President Lincoln that the secession [sɪ'seʃ(ə)n] would end without conflict, the two regions fought a civil war.

When Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, this was refuted by the southern states, and the Civil War expanded.

The Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order issued on January 1, 1863, during the Civil War. It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states, thus applying касающ to 3 million of the 4 million slaves in the U.S. at that time. The Proclamation immediately freed 50,000 slaves. The Proclamation did not cOmpensate компенс убытки the owners, did not itself outlaw slavery, and did not make the ex-slaves citizens.

The Proclamation made abolition a central goal of the war.

Slavery was made illegal everywhere in the U.S. by the Thirteenth Amendment.

The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially outlaws slavery. It was passed by the SEnate in 1864 and adopted on December 6, 1865.

President Lincoln and other Republicans were concerned озадачены that the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared the freedom of slaves, would be seen as a temporary war measure.

The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of slavery. It was ratified on February 3, 1870.

Slavery in the United States was essentially ended by the Civil War - a vast and destructive war.

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