On this day, December the 6th, in the year of 1865, the 13th Amendment, outlawing the practice of slavery throughout the United States of America, was ratified.

Over the course of the Civil War, the main goal shifted from differences between Americas Northern and Southern states (including slavery) to the ablioshment of slavery with Abraham Lincolns Emancipation Proclomation (agian, slavery was a reson for the Civil War to begin with).

After the Union defeated the rebelling forces, some of the primary goals were to reconnect the North and South (a period come to be known as the “Reconstruction Era”) and constitutionally ban slavery (NMAAHC) (History).

Being passed by the House of Representatives in the beginning of 1865, Georgia was the last state to ratify the 13th Amendment (not the last state ever, rather it being numerically the last state required for it to go into law) allowing it to be added to the constitution (GLIAH).

To read more daily facts and tidbits and about events which led to the Civil War, see the Barron Perspectives “On this Day Archives” webpage and such articles as “(John Brown Hung) On This Day – December 2nd” and “On This Day – November 6th (Abraham Lincoln)”.