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January 1: The Emancipation Proclamation
On January 1st, 1863—in the middle of the Civil War—President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. This order declared that “all persons held as slaves” in rebellious southern Confederate states “shall be…forever free.”
January 16: The 18th Amendment
The 18th Amendment of 1919 prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol.

































