Slaves saw emancipation as more than an end to slavery, but also education, voting rights, and rights before the law. The 13th Amendment passed in January 1865 ending slavery in the Union and ensuring that under US control, slaves in the south would be freed.
The federalist party opposed the war. For example they considered it an offensive war aimed at Canada.Although willing to support a war to protect American commerce or defend the nations frontiers, they refused to sanction the conquest of Canada
<span>The Independent Democrats and many northern Whigs abandoned their affiliations for the new antislavery Republican party, leaving southern Whigs without party links and creating an issue over which the already deeply divided Democrats would split even more.</span>
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