The Constitutional Amendment that directly resulted from the Civil War was the 13th.
After the American Civil War, the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery in the American territory. The Amendment was ratified by the states on December 18, 1865. This was one of the firsts measures adopted as part of the Reconstruction after so much conflict during the war years. The only form of slavery that Congress contemplated was as a result of punishment.
Around the world and beginning in the 1830s in the u.s. the growth accelerated "during the <span>industrial Revolution". This revolution made the incomes of most social classes except the elite soar in ways they had not before, creating upward mobility.</span>
