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only got better from there with the



                                                                                                                                         14th Amendment which gave all




                                                                                                                                         citizens of  the United States equal



                                                                                                                                         protection of  the laws and the 15th



                                                                                                                                         amendment which gave African-




                                                                                                                                         Americans the right to vote. It took



                                                                                                                                         nearly two hundred years but the

            instated, that slavery had come to                                                                                           African Americans were finally freed




            a stop. With the war ending and                                                                                              on December 18, 1865.



            the 13th Amendment adopted on



            December 18, 1865, Slavery had




            finally ended. The 13th Amendment



            had officially abolished slavery and




            freed all blacks from slavery. Things
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