The Underground Railroad

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There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. This was written by Charles Kettering, do you abide by this? Before, during, and after the Civil War people had this ideal in mind. The idea that you could get somewhere with an open mind. Abraham Lincoln was president at the time, and was abiding by his standards on how African Americans should be treated. The south had political views that slaves weren 't citizens, and they wanted them to work on the large plantations in the south. Northerners thought southerners should treat slaves with respect, just as they did. This created tension between the once unified country. The states separated into Confederate and Union systems, this was the …show more content…
Social, Economic, and Political standpoints were vastly different between the two, how?

Since both the North and South had different views on the matter, they sometimes took extreme measures, good and bad. The Underground Railroad had a beneficial entity, located in Cincinnati, Ohio. Helping African Americans who were once slaves, to escape to freedom. Ironically though it wasn’t a railroad, neither was it underground, but were various routes, lines, and paths. Many white abolitionists were able to help in the escaping of slaves, such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, former slave Harriet Tubman, and many other abolitionists. This however was short lived, when angry white southerners, leading to their demands that the Fugitive Slave Laws were to be strengthened. Nevertheless, this did not stop the Abolitionist Movements, it strengthened them. The goal was to end slavery in the south, and the possibility of spreading it to the West. The Second Great Awakening upheld many religious movements to end slavery. In December both

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