13th Amendment

13th Amendment

• North won Civil War.
• Ratified in December 6, 1865.
• North won Civil War.
• The 13th amendment, which formally abolished slavery in the United States, passed the Senate on April 8, 1864, and the House on January 31, 1865

13th Amendment states

• “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.”
• Meaning that You can not treat people unfairly because of race.

White people made ways to disobey this law

• They made Black Codes.
• These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.
• have a job.

Short Term Effects

• Black Codes.
• Reconstruction
• Popular demonstration supporting the decision

Long Term Effects

• More racial struggles
• Could have jobs( if white boss let them.)
• Freedman's Bureau help African Americans fit into society.

People Invovled

• If you were for the Union, You love the Thirteenth Amendment.
• If you were for Confederate, you hated the idea of black people being free.

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Today, black people are still stereotype, and treated unfairly, but it has gotten better.

Thirteenth Amendment is significant to me because I wouldn't be here id it didn't exist.

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