Underground Railroad

:This page is for the U.S. slave escape route. For railroads elsewhere built underground, see Metro and London Underground.

Related events

• 1776 – Declaration of Independence
• 1793 – Fugitive Slave Act
• 1820 – Missouri Compromise
• 1850 – Compromise of 1850
• 1854 – Kansas-Nebraska Act
• 1857 – Dred Scott Decision
• 1858 – Oberlin-Wellington Rescue
• 1860 – Abraham Lincoln of Illinois becomes the first Republican U.S. President
• 1861 through 1865 – American Civil War
• 1863 – Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Lincoln
• 1865 – Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution