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The shift in position that this law passing showed was an adavance although otherwise it did little to gain that title. It was mostly a measure of war designed to destabilize the South, and was weakly enforcced if at all.
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This precursor to the final Emancipation Proclamation, issued by Araham Lincoln was as much an act of military strategy as abolitionism.
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The proclamation freed all slaves in states that had not returned to the Union. It had no effect whatsoever on those behing Union lines.
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The Senate adopted the 13th amendment to the United States Constitution, officially ending slavery in the United States.
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Equal pay is granted to all soldiers in the Union Army, regardless of race.
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The House of Representatives passes the 13th Amendment.
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The 13th amendmeent is ratified. Slavery is officially abolished in the Untied States.
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This Civil Rights act would, for a few years anyway, equalized the rights of Blacks in the United States.
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This would put a damper on most of the civil rights progress that had been made, and little other progress would made for nearly 90 years.