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What was the Constitutional amendment that freed the slaves?
The 13th amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery in the United States and its territories.
Which of these is the BEST example of Federal assistance to freed slaves following the Civil War?
Freedman's Bureau
Which of these is an element of the Emancipation Proclamation?
Slaves living in the Confederate states during the Civil War were freed.
How did the old laws against teaching slaves to read and write make a difference after the civil war?
They made literacy tests an easy way to prevent freed slaves from voting.
After the Civil War a major goal of the Radical Republicans in Congress was to?
gain voting right for the newly freed slaves
Constitutional amendment granting civil rights to freed slaves and barring former confederates from office?
14th amendment
The constitutional amendment granting civil rights to freed slaves and barring former confederates from office?
The Fourteenth Amendment
What Constitutional amendment passed during Lincoln's adminidstration?
The 13th Amendment. It freed all slaves.
What was the Constitutional amendment that freed the slaves?
The 13th amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery in the United States and its territories.
Did Britain come to set slaves free in America?
Since the US became independent of Britain as a result of the Revolutionary War, Britain did not come to set slaves free in America. It was not until after the Civil War that the slaves were freed by constitutional amendment.
What US Constitutional amendment freed more than 4 million slaves in the US?
The 13th Amendment to the US Constitution was passed in December of 1865. The amendment abolished slavery in the US.
What was the document that freed slaves during the civil war?
Emancipation proclamation. Also note that it required a constitutional amendment, after the war, to legally free the slaves. The President does not actually have the power to alter the constitution by proclamation alone, and the original constitution did allow slavery.
What are freedpeople?
former slaves became free people after the Civil War. (13 amendment)
What year were the slaves freed after the civil war?
The year that slavery was abolished was 1865. The thirteenth amendment to the US Constitution was ratified in December of that year. In essence the slaves were freed with the fall of the Confederate government in April 1865, and the surrender of the last viable rebel army which occurred in May. Also many slaves had been "freed" by the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. However the constitutional amendment made it official and the slave then truly was henceforth and forever free.
What is the constitutional commandment that freed the slaves?
The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution is the constitutional commandment that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime, in the United States.
What amendment freed the slaves in the United States?
thirteenth amendment
24 Which Amendment freed the slaves?
13th
