Amendment+XIII

__Amendment XIII__



 * "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime where of **
 * the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or **
 * any place subjected to." **


 * An amendment is a change in a constitution or law. The thirteenth amendment was the first adopted to be divided into sections.This amenment was suggested on January 31, 1865. It prohibits the binding of a person to perform a personal service due to debt. This amendement was ratified on December 6, 1865 by the House of Represenitives. It took 309 days for it to be ratified. Slavery was most common in the South and cotton and tobacco were "cash crops" so slaves were needed to help produce and gather these crops for no pay and poor living conditions. Abraham Lincoln (the sixteenth president) was one of the first people who did something to end this tragedy known as slavery. He was also the one who delivered the great speech known as "The Emancipation Proclimation". **
 * While this was going on, other things happening in the U.S. were the Fort Sumter Crisis, the Civil War, the Battle of Bull Run, the Emancipation Proclimation was delivered, and President Lincoln was assassinated soon after the Civil War ended. Also, global occuances such as the British taking over rule in India, and Canada becoming independent took place. **


 * The thirty-six states for the amendent: Illinois, Rhode Island, Michigan, Maryland, New York, Pennslyvania, West Virginia, Missouri, Maine, Kansas, Massachusetts, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Nevada, Louisiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Vermont, Tennessee, Arkansas, Conneticut, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Alabama, North Carolina, Georgia, Oregon, California, Florida, Iowa, New Jersey, Texas, Delaware, Kentucky, and Mississippi. **


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