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How Did The Underground Railroad Lead To The Civil War Compromise

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Did you ever want to know why we were never to find a compromise on slavery which lead us to the civil war.Well he reason that the US was not able to find a compromise on slavery for 40 years.Is because the north and south were never able to agree on a compromise in the government and with the people.I will be showing you this through 3 sources that are.Uncle Toms Cabin, The Election of 1860 and John brown.Now some people might think it was because of another reason but you will see that's not true.I will show you that by using The Underground Railroad.

This source Uncle Tom's Cabin shows how they weren't able to compromise with the people because in the texts it states “The book had a major influence on the way the American public viewed …show more content…

He started around 1813 when he was 15 years old.”At this time North Carolina was a slave state and the Southerner was helping slave escape so this mean that some people in the North and South are helping slaves escape.This didn't put the North and the South more against each other because people from both sides had been helping the slaves escape.This shows how the underground railroad didn't have as big of an effect to cause the Civil War than these other events.This shows that the reason that the US was not able to find a compromise on slavery for 40 years because the north and south were never able to agree on a compromise in the government and with the people.Through these three sources Uncle Tom's Cabin,The Election Of 1860 and John Brown.Also there is the source The Underground Railroad that didn't have as big as a impact as the other three sources.The source Uncle Tom's cabin showed. how the United States Weren't able to compromise with the people because in the texts it states “The book had a major influence on the way the American public viewed slavery”.This is showing they cant come to a compromise because the views that it mainly shifted were the north and it was in a negative way towards slavery.Which made many northerners feel that they had to get rid of slavery.Then it angered the south because they felt that what was said in the book is not what slavery is like.Then the election of 1860

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