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.
Confidence votes 22.5K. Slavery ended in 1865, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Abraham Lincoln ended slavery in rebel states with the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. It should be noted that this was merely a political move as he had no power to do so at the time of this proclamation.