All 128 questions · American History / B: 1800s
2025 Civics Test · Question 96 of 128
What U.S. war ended slavery?
En español: ¿Qué guerra de los EE. UU. puso fin a la esclavitud? — ver en español
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Accepted answers (USCIS M-1778)
- The Civil War
Why this is the answerThe war ran from 1861 to 1865, fought over whether slavery would continue. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation came in the middle of it, but it was the 13th Amendment at the end that made the change permanent.
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