Pre-Civil War

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    Underground Railroad

    Click Here! The Underground Railroad was established in 1780 and ended in 1862 with the start of the Civil War. This was involved with the Abolitionist Movement.

  • Invention of Cotton Gin

    Invention of Cotton Gin
    Click Here! Eli Whitney was the creator of the cotton gin. It was such a simple machine everyone started to make it.

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    Law where the Congress accepted Missouri as a slave state into the United States.
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    The Liberator is Published

    Garrison co-published weekly issues of The Liberator from Boston continuously for 35 years

  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    Click Here The Compromise of 1850 was a law where California was admitted as a free state.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Click Here This was a time when the Kansas territory was the site of much violence.Also known as Bloody Kansas or the Border War.

  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860
    Click Here Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell.