Question

Why was it necessary to pass the Thirteenth Amendment before the other Civil War Amendments? 30 POINTS

Answer 1

It was necessary because the Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln in January of 1863, did not end slavery entirely; those ensllaved in border states had not been freed. ... In addition to banning slavery, the amendment outlawed the practice of involuntary servitude and peonage

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Answer 2

Lincoln recognized that the Emancipation Proclamation would have to be followed by a constitutional amendment in order to guarantee the abolishment of slavery. The 13th amendment was passed at the end of the Civil War before the Southern states had been restored to the Union and should have easily passed the Congress.

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