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Northern leaders agreed that the war would be over when Confederate nationalism was dead, and slavery was dead. They disagreed sharply on how to identify these goals. They also disagreed on the degree of vengeance that should be exacted on the South for its war. The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery throughout the United States was ratified by the end of 1865. The question became whether the Freedmen had enough rights, and enough political power to protect those rights. In 1868, the 14th Amendment, defining ...

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Northern leaders agreed that the war would be over when Confederate nationalism was dead, and slavery was dead. They disagreed sharply on how to identify these goals. They also disagreed on the degree of vengeance that should be exacted on the South for its war. The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery throughout the United States was ratified by the end of 1865. The question became whether the Freedmen had enough rights, and enough political power to protect those rights. In 1868, the 14th Amendment, defining citizenship and giving the Federal government broad power to require the States to provide equal protection of the laws, was adopted. The 15th Amendment, saying that race itself could not be a disqualification for voting, was ratified in 1870. The 14th and 15th Amendments reversed the effects of the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision of 1857 and empowered the Freedmen as full citizens and (for a while) as voters.

Many Northerners wanted vengence for the loss of life, especially the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Down to the 1880s, some Republican politicians stirred up hatreds from the war in order to attack their Democratic opponents (this tactic was ridiculed by Democrats as "waving the bloody shirt").

Ghosts of the conflict still persist in America. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s had its neoabolitionist roots in the unresolved issues left by the war. Controversy and debate surrounding the legacy of the war continue, especially regarding memorials and celebrations of Confederate heroes and battle flags.

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