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.
The last state to end slavery was Texas. Another answer: Texas was the last Confederate state to end slavery: June 19, 1865, Juneteen It did not end in the entire United â¦ States until December 18, 1865. At that point the Secretary of State declared the 13th amendment ratified.