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The Constitution of the United States is the oldest and longest-standing written and codified national constitution in force in the world. [ 4 ] [ a ] The drafting of the Constitution , often referred to as its framing, was completed at the Constitutional Convention , which assembled at Independence Hall in Philadelphia between May 25 and ...
April 2 – A. P. Hill, Confederate general killed in the American Civil War (born 1825) April 15 – Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States from 1861 to 1865 (born 1809) April 26 – John Wilkes Booth, actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln (born 1838) May 20 – William K. Sebastian, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1848 to 1861 ...
The United States Constitution has served as the supreme law of the United States since taking effect in 1789. The document was written at the 1787 Philadelphia Convention and was ratified through a series of state conventions held in 1787 and 1788.
The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.The amendment was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House of Representatives on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the required 27 of the then 36 states on December 6, 1865, and proclaimed on December 18.
Harper's Weekly cover showing the scene in the House on the passage of the 13th amendment to amend the Constitution, January 31, 1865. Three Reconstruction Amendments were passed and ratified ...
Battle of Appomattox Courthouse, April 9, 1865; Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln dies on April 15, 1865; Andrew Johnson becomes 17th president of the United States on April 15, 1865; The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution takes effect, December 18, 1865
As the Des Moines Register marks its 175th year, today's historic front page is from April 16, 1865: President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated.
The average annual income (after inflation) of non-farm workers grew by 75% from 1865 to 1900, and then grew another 33% by 1918. [1] With a victory in 1865 over the Southern Confederate States in the Civil War, the United States became a united nation with a stronger