History of the United States I / Unit 16 USH1 2259 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Two-and-a-Half-Year Gap
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The idea
The objective asks whether the Thirteenth Amendment succeeded or failed, and the anchor answers with the distance between the Proclamation and Galveston.
In practice
The order facing resistance, with many freed people captured or killed while trying to exercise freedom.
Where people slip
The amendment succeeded in law and had to be announced, enforced and survived in fact. Austin's first Juneteenth came in eighteen sixty-seven.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.
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