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> >> Alec Wood wrote: Here is a trivia question for you all.
> >> Which amendment took over 200 years to pass?
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OK, here's another one. In what decade did the last state ratify the
Thirteenth Amendment, which was proposed to the state legislatures by the US
Congress on January 31, 1865 and which abolished slavery (of the 36 that
existed at the time it was originally proposed)?