Lincoln recognized that the Emancipation Proclamation would have to be followed by a constitutional amendment in order to guarantee the abolishment of slavery. The 13th amendment was passed at the end of the Civil War before the Southern states had been restored to the Union and should have easily passed the Congress.Although the Senate passed it in April 1864, the House did not. At that point, Lincoln took an active role to ensure passage through congress.incoln recognized that the Emancipation Proclamation would have to be followed by a constitutional amendment in order to guarantee the abolishment of slavery. The 13th amendment was passed at the end of the Civil War before the Southern states had been restored to the Union and should have easily passed the Congress.
George Franklin Grant (September 15, 1846 â August 21, 1910) was the first African-American professor at Harvard. He was also a Boston dentist, and an inventor of a wooden golf tee.
Tweet. The history of the golf tee dates back to the 1500âs. The practice of getting sand wet with a towel and mounding up earth to get the ball off the ground a little went on for some 300 years. The late 1800âs changed all that. This is the history of the golf tee. The original rules of golf from 1744 state that your ball must be âteedâ from the ground.