Six Degrees of Separation; The Liberator to the Compromise of 1877

By: Nikki & Samm The Liberator

Anti-Slavery newspaper created by William Lloyd Garrison & Isaac Knapp. It was first published in 1831. The newspaper lasted 35 years from January 1st, 1831- December 29, 1865.

Lincoln and the founders of the Liberator were both against slavery. Abraham Lincoln

- 16the president of the United States - American politician and lawyer - In office from March 1861 to his assassination in April 1865

Lincoln started planning for the reconstruction of the South during the Civil War when Union soldiers took up huge areas of the South. Reconstruction Era - Period after the civil war - South reorganized its government systems to account for the end of slavery. - Also too guarantees African American men the right to vote.

The reconstruction era was close to ending when the election of 1876 came about. Election of 1876

The U.S presidential election of 1876 was one of the most debated presidential elections in American history. Samuel Tilden from New York outpolled Rutherford B. Hayes from Ohio in a popular vote, and had 184 electoral votes to Hayes' 165. Rutherford B. Hayes

- 19th president of the United States - In office from March 4, 1877 to March 4, 1881 - Republican who was put into the whit house during the Compromise of 1877 Compromise of 1877

- An unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S presidential election. - The government pulled troops out of the south & ended the reconstruction era. - Rutherford B. Hayes was a Republican who was put in the White House on thought that he was to remove federal troops. - Formally ended the reconstruction era.