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The Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery except as punishment for a crime had been passed by the Senate in April 1864 and by the House of Representatives in January 1865 the amendment did not take effect until it was ratified by three fourths of the states which occurred on December 6 1865 when Georgia ratified it On that date all remaining slaves became officially free; .

Library of Congress Jefferson Building 2nd Regiment District of Columbia Infantry 2.10 Spouses and children Seal 9 Ideology and factions. Rapid Transit WMATA Red.svg WMATA Blue.svg WMATA Orange.svg WMATA Yellow.svg WMATA Green.svg WMATA Silver.svg Based on the President's war powers the Emancipation Proclamation applied to territory held by Confederates at the time However the Proclamation became a symbol of the Union's growing commitment to add emancipation to the Union's definition of liberty. Lincoln played a leading role in getting the constitutionally-required two-thirds majority of both houses of Congress to vote for the Thirteenth Amendment, which made emancipation universal and permanent. The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 created a single new district corporation governing the entire federal territory called the District of Columbia thus dissolving the three major political subdivisions of the District (Port of Georgetown the City of Washington and Washington County) and their governments by this time the county also contained other small settlements and nascent suburbs of Washington outside its bounded limits such as Anacostia which had been incorporated in 1854 as Uniontown; Fort Totten dating at least to the Civil War; and Barry Farm a large tract bought by the Freedmen's Bureau and granted to formerly enslaved and free-born African Americans in 1867.