Finding Paragraph #2

When Abraham Lincoln was elected president in the election of 1860, and inaguarated in 1861, several Southern states secedeeded from the United States in fear of Lincoln abolishing slavery." In 1834, the National Anti-Slavery Society organized the Underground Railroad, which compromised the combined efforts of both white and black abolitionists to aid some 100,000 enslaved persons to find their way to freedom." The Underground Railroad was not a tunnel, nor a railroad, but it was an escape network with government-rebelling people helping slaves escape. This escape network spanned across 29 states, including Canada, Mexico, and the Carribean. In 1838, with black abolitionist Robert Purvis in charge, the underground railroad became formally organized. Many slaves escaped the Confederate South, but others had to use highly organized systems. Harriet Tubman is one of the most widely-known abolitionists. She helped many escape and even returned to aid others. In 1850,  the Fugitive Slave Act allowed slave owners to go recapture escaped slaves with the help of  U.S. Marshals. That same year, the Compromise of 1850 was created and it stated that anyone who assisted with slaves escaping could be fined and/or imprisoned. Finally, in 1863, the Emancipation Proclomation gave light to the slaves' freedom. When the Civil War ended in 1865, the 13th Amendment of the Constitution abolished slavery permanently(Underground Railroad).