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Because it was one of the 13 colonies.
The Reconstruction Amendments are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution, passed between 1865 and 1870, the five years immediately following the Civil War. ... The Thirteenth Amendment (proposed and ratified in 1865) abolished slavery.
During his presidency, Richard Nixon tried to stop inflation by passing Executive Order 11615. This law put a ninety day freeze on all wages and prices in order to stop inflation. This was one of the few times in American history where the government controlled the prices of goods for an extended period of time. The last time they did this before Nixon was during World War II.