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13th Amendment is least cited of Reconstruction revisions, but its impact is powerful After the Civil War, to produce a firewall against slavery or the potentiality of slavery, the Thirteenth ...
But the Fourteenth Amendment was created to provide federal protection against state power; and since the Civil War, the Court has held (through a process called "incorporation") that nearly all ...
The Civil War remains one of the most important chapters in American history. ... In December 1865, the end of slavery was finally put into law when Congress passed the 13th Amendment, ...