New England Patriots 2015 schedule. The New England Patriots start of their Super Bowl defense with a prime time Thursday night game against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Foxborough.
Quatr.us > America > People > Reconstruction. April 2016 - During the Civil War, in 1863 AD, President Lincoln announced the end of slavery. When the North won the war, in 1865, Congress and the states voted to change the Constitution to make slavery illegal, so all the people who were slaves in the South became free. Some people chose to leave the plantations, now that they were free.
Detail of a photograph taken at Mathew Bradyâs gallery in Washington, D.C., 1862. Courtesy Library of Congress. Abraham Lincoln came to understand that to achieve a lasting peace, slavery must end. He had always opposed slavery, but had never sided with abolitionists who called for its immediate end. Lincoln had sought solutions that would make slavery gradually fade from white societyâlimit its location, sponsor compensation programs for slave owners, and relocate freed blacks outside the country.