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Civil War and Reconstruction - Overview
Sectionalism and Growing Tension
Underground Railroad
Overview of Civil War including Politics, Society and Culture
Abraham Lincoln
Civil War - Military
U.S. Grant
Reconstruction

Sectionalism and Growing Tension

Africans in America/Part 4
Companion to the PBS series. Part 4 deals with Antebellum Slavery - 1831-1865. Wonderful collection of biographies, documents, and contemporary essays.
African American Sites - Library of Congress Web Guide
American Abolitionism and Religion
The American Experience | John Brown's Holy War
Annenberg/CPB - A Biography of America
The Coming of Civil War
The Avalon Project
Fugitive Slave Act 1850
Kansas - Nebraska Act 1854
The Beecher Tradition
Bill of Rights in Action: "We Came to Free the Slaves": John Brown on Trial
Bleeding Kansas
Citizens All: African Americans in Connecticut, 1700-1850
The Coming of the Civil War
Compromise of 1850
A basic description of the Compromise of 1850 including Clay's proposals and the growing disintegration of the union.
Digital History
Explorations - The Coming of the Civil War
Guided Readings on the Pre-Civil War South
Guided Readings on the Impending Crisis
Classroom Handouts: Sectional Conflict
Guided Readings on Antislavery
Guided Readings on Pre-Civil War Reform
Resource Guide: Antebellum Era
Resource Guide: Reform
Resource Guide: Slavery
Documented Rights
Dred Scott case
Dred Scott Decision
The Dred Scott Decision and Its Bitter Legacy
Dred Scott: Introduction
Educate Yourself - Cotton - Eli Whitney part 1
Cotton - Eli Whitney part 2
Expansion and the Civil War
Frederick Douglass: From Slave to Leader
Fredrick Douglass Online Resources at the Library of Congress
From Another Century: A Liberating 9/11 Story
From Revolution to Reconstruction
Essays: A Hard Shove for a "Nation On the Brink": The Impact of Dred Scott
Essays: Politics and Sectionalism in the 1850s
From Slavery to Civil Rights: A Timeline of African-American History
Furman University: 19th Century Documents
The Geography of Slavery in Virginia
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
A Guide to the Mexican War at the Library of Congress
Halfway to Freedom: Abolitionist Movements in Chicago
Harpers Ferry
Harriet Tubman: Online Resources from the Library of Congress
Henry Clay: The Attorney
History Now: Abolition
History Now: Looking at Slavery
How Did Abolitionist Women and Their Slaveholding Relatives Negotiate Their Conflict over the Issue of Slavery?
How Did Oberlin Women Students Draw on Their College Experience to Participate in Antebellum Social Movements, 1831-1861?
James Buchanan: A Resource Guide
John Brown Homepage
The Making of African American Identity: Vol. 1, 1500-1865
The Marshall and Taney Courts: Continuities and Changes
NARA | Digital Classroom | Teaching With Documents
Anti-Railroad Propaganda Poster: Growth of Regionalism
Fugitive from Labor Cases
Lincoln's spot Resolutions
New York and Slavery: Complicity and Resistance
This is a curriculum guide published by the New York Council for the Social Studies. It has an incredibly extensive collection of primary source documents dealing with the issue of New York and its dealings with slavery from 1629 to 1864.
Primary Documents in American History - National Expansion and Reform - LOC
The Reform Community: 1820-1860
Regional Conflict and Compromise
Religious Origins of Manifest Destiny
Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
Slavery and the Origins of the Civil War
Slavery and Post-Slavery Resources
Slavery Resource Guide - Library of Congress
Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
The Slave Trade
Sojourner Truth Online Resources at the Library of Congress
SparkNotes: Pre-Civil War (1820-1860)
Timeline of U.S. Interventions
Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North
The Trial and Execution of John Brown
Triumph of Nationalism - The House Dividing
Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Literature
Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Ideology of Slavery
Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Matter of Influence
US History - The Coming of the War, 1850-1860 - WWW-VL
US History - South Slavery
Provided by Best of History Web Sites.
Virginia Emigrants to Liberia
Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories
Western Expansion & Reform (1829-1859)
Words and Boundaries in a Secessionist Age
WWW-VL: Coming of the Civil War, 1850-1860

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Underground Railroad

Aboard the Underground Railroad
Provides a brief background of the underground railroad and how both Whites and African Americans worked together to make it a success. Includes a map of the routes.
Follow the Drinking Gourd
From Slavery to Civil Rights: A Timeline of African-American History
Kentucky's Underground Railroad
Levi Coffin House - the "Grand Central Station" of the Underground Railroad
The Life of Harriet Tubman
Covers Harriet Tubman's life from her days in slavery, her escape, her role in freeing others, to her life in Auburn New York.
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Parks Canada - The Underground Railroad in Canada
Tubman, Harriet (1820-1913) on Yahoo!
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad in Rochester, New York
Contains information on slavery, Fugative Slave Act, Function of the Underground Railroad, how many slaves were helped, how slaves were transported, and much more.
The Underground Railroad: Canada in an International Arena
The Underground Railroad Site - Table of Contents
Underground Railroad: Special Resource Study
The Underground Railroad @ nationalgeographic.com
The Underground Railway's Canadian Connection
William Still Underground Railroad Foundation Inc. Intro

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