On January 31, 1865, the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery in the United States, and sent it to states for ratification. The amendment reads as follows: ...

Slavery was a critical part of the United States from its creation, both as a collection of colonies and as its own entity. The practice was legal in all 13 colonies, and the authors of the ...

Washington D.C. (WHTM) On January 31, 1865, the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery in the United States, and sent it to states for ratification.

The Senate had passed the Amendment on April 8, 1864. Ganson, who was born in Le Roy, represented the 30th Congressional ...

On February 1, 2003, the world lost Indian-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla and six other crew members aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, which broke apart during re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere.

The military expenditures had occurred by 1865. General William Sherman ... military aspect of the anti-slavery revolution. The 13th Amendment, passed in truly extraordinary circumstances ...

The Civil War officially ended April 1865. The Thirteenth Amendment which abolished slavery in the US was ratified December 1865. But Jim Crow, Black Codes, and segregation were still going strong in ...

History is more than what we learn in textbooks—it’s a living, breathing narrative that continues to shape the present. There ...

The Appellate Division has deferred the scheduled hearing of a review petition filed challenging the cancellation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which introduced the caretaker government ...

A discussion of the development of civil rights law in the US through the enactment of key legislation and formation of the ...

Most of them were brought by incumbent Presidents to suit their political interests and were fundamentally anti-democratic. But the 13th Amendment, which has a relatively democratic dimension in ...