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.
Lincoln did not end slavery in America. Remember, well before Lincoln was ever born slavery was already illegal in many states, especially in New England. Also, the Constitution had already ended the slave trade by 1808. The famed Emancipation Proclamation, which Lincoln did issue, only declared slaves in rebel-held territory free, which was, in a practical sense, ineffectual. It also did not apply to Confederate territory already captured by Union forces.