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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