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Underground Railroad
Click Here! The Underground Railroad was a secret network organized by people who helped men, women, and children escape from slavery to freedom. It operated before the Civil War ended slavery in the United States. -
Invention of Cotton Gin
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The Gin helped the with making cotton. It also raised the need for slavery. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman. -
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Bleeding Kansas
All about death
They fought. It was great.