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Abolition of Slavery: United States
Abolition of Slavery
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Event and Its Context
Industrialization Versus Agriculture
Slavery
Compromise or Conflict
Uncle Tom 's Cabin
Abraham Lincoln
The Civil War Begins
Self-emancipation
Antislavery Legislation
Emancipation Proclamation
Aftermath of the War
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Abolition of Slavery: United States

Content: President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves in Confederate territories, on 1 January. Thus begins a year that sees the turning point of the Civil War, with decisive Union victories at Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga. Thereafter, the Confederacy is almost perpetually on the defensive, fighting not to win but to avoid losing. 1865: Civil War ends with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, Virginia. More than 600,000 men have died, and the South is in ruins, but the Union has been restored. 1865: Ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits slavery. 1868: Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which grants civil rights to African Americans.