Civil+War_JSJ

=**Civil War**= The Thirteen Amendment was passed in 1865. This Amendment freed slaves. Lincoln named this the Emancipation Proclamation. In 1866 Congress passed the Civil Rights Act. That act allowed blacks citizenship and equal rights. Finally blacks had the right to vote in 1870. Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865. The person who planned to shoot him was John Wilkes Booth. The location where Lincoln was shot was In Washington, D.C. at Ford's Theatre. He was assassinated because John WIlkes Booth didn't like Lincoln's idea of wanting slavery to end. After Lincoln's speech about freeing slaves, Booth said that will be the last speech Lincoln will ever give and shot him. The Union Blockade of Confederate ports was to cut Confederate trade with the world. The Confederates tried getting around it by sending blockade runners.
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