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1. The institution of slavery was formally abolished throughout the United States by the ____________________________________________.

a. Compromise of 1850
b. Emancipation Proclamation of 1863
c. Creation of the Freedmen’s Bureau in 1865
d. Ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865

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D! By the 13th amendment Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865.
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