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 term newly freed African Americans is used to describe former slaves that were no longer owned by anyone else. Slavery was abolished in the United States in the year 1865.his happened for many people when President Abraham Lincoln issued the first Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. The official end of all slavery came in December â¦ , 1865, with passage of the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution.