Topic Who were the major players involved with the Underground Railroad? What
effect did they have in the emancipation of slaves in the United Sates of America?
(Harriet Tubman and Levi Coffin)
Research Option #1: History Turning Points
General Overview: Select an event, incident, a legislative action, or related marked historical moment in
the years up until the American Civil War (Pre-Columbian Era to 1865), that marks an important transition in American History. This historical event can lead to a social, economic, or political transition that shaped
the country’s history. Additionally, you will conclude this research project with a supposition of how history might have been shaped had this event never occurred or of another possible outcome could have been possible.
Examples: The effect of the Salem Witchcraft Trials on the colonial religious goals of Massachusetts; The
postFrench & Indian War colonial taxation policies of the British government; The failure of the indentured
servitude system to provide an ample labor source in the pre-Revolutionary American South; The passing of the Kansas
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