{"id":1490,"date":"2026-12-18T00:20:38","date_gmt":"2026-12-18T05:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:41:08","slug":"thirteenth-amendment-to-the-constitution-was-adopted-in-1865","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1490","title":{"rendered":"Amendment Thirteen to the Constitution Was Adopted in 1865"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/amendment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3926 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/amendment-e1666613229150-150x148.jpg\" alt=\"amendment\" width=\"150\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a>Amendment Thirteen to the Constitution, outlawing slavery, was adopted in 1865<\/strong>. Congress proposed the amendment on January 31, 1865. By the end of February eighteen states had ratified it. Georgia ratified it on December 6, 1865. Enough states had then ratified the amendment to become official. Older children could research the background behind the amendment at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/milestone-documents\/13th-amendment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amendment Thirteen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amendment Thirteen to the Constitution, outlawing slavery, was adopted in 1865. Congress proposed the amendment on January 31, 1865. By the end of February eighteen states had ratified it. Georgia ratified it on December 6, 1865. Enough states had then ratified the amendment to become official. Older children could research the background behind the amendment <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1490' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4565,4564,6416,79,80,4563],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4565","tag-abolition-of-slavery","tag-amendment-thirteen","tag-december-18","tag-thirteenth-amendment","tag-thirteenth-amendment-to-the-constitution","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26830,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions\/26830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}