https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/1lfq0j2bvkl1gevk ANSWER YOUR DOCUMENT QUESTIONS HERE FOR ALL TO SEE!! en-us 2021-03-17 16:17:36 UTC 2025-11-10 10:21:59 UTC hello@padlet.com charolettelibbytoler2024 https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/1lfq0j2bvkl1gevk/wish/1330567496 1) According to the document, the Constitution protects slavery by not allowing Congress to take away their "property." To the writer of this document slaves are property not people and the constitution only states that all people are equal within the US. They believe the slaves to be a subclass of humans. 2) The writer believes slaves to be people as the preamble lists of numerous rights given to American citizens at birth and humans in general that the slaves do not have. Therefore, according to the Constitution and this document, the slaves could not be considered people.]]> 2021-03-19 16:37:20 UTC https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/1lfq0j2bvkl1gevk/wish/1330567496 https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/1lfq0j2bvkl1gevk/wish/1330567859 This document is a newspaper ad for a runaway slave. Thomas Jefferson wrote this. ]]> 2021-03-19 16:37:25 UTC https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/1lfq0j2bvkl1gevk/wish/1330567859 derekmahoney2023 https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/1lfq0j2bvkl1gevk/wish/1330569957 -Jefferson accuses the English King of violating human rights, bringing them into slavery and selling them.
-The deleted paragraph changes the meaning of "all men" in document B because he explains how all men weren't equal as some of their rights were taken away.]]> 2021-03-19 16:37:52 UTC https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/1lfq0j2bvkl1gevk/wish/1330569957 https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/1lfq0j2bvkl1gevk/wish/1330572181 - According to Douglass, the most important guarantees of the Constitution are that it secures the blessing of liberty.
-The main idea of the document is that slaves are on the same level as things like cattle. Douglass is expressing anger while explaining that slaves have never been included in the Constitution and aren't considered people. ]]> 2021-03-19 16:38:22 UTC https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/1lfq0j2bvkl1gevk/wish/1330572181 jamessweeney2024 https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/1lfq0j2bvkl1gevk/wish/1330576629 Congress can limit slavery in the Louisiana Territory under the provisions in Document E, or the Constitution. It only says that Congress cannot limit slavery before the year 1808. However, according to Document E, escaped slaves must be returned to their owners.]]> 2021-03-19 16:39:20 UTC https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/1lfq0j2bvkl1gevk/wish/1330576629 RelCavanagh2024 https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/1lfq0j2bvkl1gevk/wish/1330583491 This document is an excerpt from the constitution that talks about how slaves will be taxed and says that runaway slaves must be returned. It also claims that slavery can not be prohibited by congress prior to the year 1808. 
-In the excerpt, slaves are referred to as "such persons."
-In the constitution, it says that that congress can't regulate slavery until 1808.]]> 2021-03-19 16:40:50 UTC https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/1lfq0j2bvkl1gevk/wish/1330583491 loganpotter2024 https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/1lfq0j2bvkl1gevk/wish/1330592216 According to the document the purpose of government is to make sure people have there God-given rights of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. 

Document D
Based on the reading "we the people" are the people of the US. The citizens, they are the people who have the God-given rights of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.  ]]> 2021-03-19 16:42:43 UTC https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/1lfq0j2bvkl1gevk/wish/1330592216 jamessweeney2024 https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/1lfq0j2bvkl1gevk/wish/1330597593 The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 expands on the protections given to slave holders in Documents E and F because in those documents, any escaped slaves must be returned to their owners. In the Fugitive Slave Act, slave holders are given specific ways to recapture their runaway slaves. For example, they can get a warrant or get the slave arrested.]]> 2021-03-19 16:43:48 UTC https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/1lfq0j2bvkl1gevk/wish/1330597593 charolettelibbytoler2024 https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/1lfq0j2bvkl1gevk/wish/1330603701 1) The author uses the historical evidence of the Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederation gave citizenship to all free native born residents of the states of Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and North Carolina even if they had African descent were citizens. 2) This document is majorly different than before for many reasons. The first being that the I document has the opinion that slaves were not citizens and the Constitution gave slaveholders the right to own these people as slaveholders. The second document, J, has the total opposite and believes that the slaves are indeed citizens and the Constitution deprived them of their rights. ]]> 2021-03-19 16:45:05 UTC https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/1lfq0j2bvkl1gevk/wish/1330603701 RelCavanagh2024 https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/1lfq0j2bvkl1gevk/wish/1330610615 Document G is of a anti-abolitionist poster that invites people to gather at a church with the claims that they will be destroying what they perceive to be the evil of abolition.
-In the poster, "rights of the states" refers to the rights of the states to have slavery.
-The statement "The Union forever" conflicts with the statement "rights of the states" because the people protecting the "right" to slavery fought the union.]]> 2021-03-19 16:46:31 UTC https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/1lfq0j2bvkl1gevk/wish/1330610615 https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/1lfq0j2bvkl1gevk/wish/1330613039 - Lincoln's reading of the Declaration differs from Chief Justice Taney's. Lincoln claims the rights of black people were originally thought to be included along with everyone else. Taney believed that the rights of black people was never included. 
-Lincoln is asking what has changed as originally, the Declaration meant all people including slaves. Now, that idea has been tampered with and has people like Taney not believing black lives never mattered.  ]]> 2021-03-19 16:47:01 UTC https://padlet.com/leicesterpublicschools/1lfq0j2bvkl1gevk/wish/1330613039