The Reconstruction Era followed the Civil War, trying to rebuild the South.
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The 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, was ratified in 1865.
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Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, freeing enslaved people in Confederate states.
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