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.
Slavery ended in the United States 6 months after the civil war with the 13th Amendment. December 6, 1865. In the US, slavery ended in December of 1865 when the 13th Amendment was ratified. The Blacks were officially freed from slavery by the Thirteenth Amendment, passed by the Senate on Apr. 8, 1864, passed by the House on Jan.31,1865 and proclaimed as adopted on Dec. 6,1865.