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Also called Manassas or Manassas Junction. They realized that this war was going to be a long bloody war.
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Thomas Corwin a Republican from Ohio. Corwin was introduced for a considered measure by congress, an attempt to attract states into their state.
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All slaves that are in the territories that are still fighting will forever be free on January 1, 1863
[http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/13th-amendment-ratified]
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Date that Lincoln declared slaves in territory outside of Union free.
[http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/13th-amendment-ratified]
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Proclamation was issued and would go into effect three monthes later.
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Made over ten percent of the Northern Army. One percent was African American out of the 25 percent that they comprised of the Union Navy.
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The Gettysburg adress was a bloody battle. Abraham Lincoln wrote a speech about the Gettysburg Address and rememberic
of all the people who had died there.
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Senate Judiciary Committee used some language from the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 where slavery was forbidden North of the Ohio River.
[http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/13th-amendment-ratified]
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The Republican plateform of "utter and complete destruction" of slavery ensured the ratification of the amendment.
[http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/13th-amendment-ratified]
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On December 6, 1865 it was the end of slavery, this happened eight months after the war. Georgia ratified to offcially end slavery in the U.S.
[http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/13th-amendment-ratified] [project pass]
