https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik This timeline represents the events that led up to the Civil War. en-us 2018-04-27 16:52:10 UTC 2025-05-08 16:00:00 UTC hello@padlet.com lydiah_meade https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256091694 The Missouri Compromise is an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between the free and slave states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.]]> 2018-04-27 16:54:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256091694 lydiah_meade https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256092206  Abolitionists wanted to stop slavery in Washington D.C., but Congress
refused to consider anti-slavery petitions.]]> 2018-04-27 16:55:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256092206 lydiah_meade https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256092752 A person who flees or tries to escape (for example, from slavery).]]> 2018-04-27 16:56:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256092752 lydiah_meade https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256093003 The Wilmot Proviso didn't want slavery to exist and the gag rule kept the slavery issue out of congress for 10 years. But southerners began to oppose the Wilmot Proviso.]]> 2018-04-27 16:57:33 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256093003 lydiah_meade https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256093486 The North and South debated back and forth trying to decide what to do about slavery territories in California.]]> 2018-04-27 16:58:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256093486 lydiah_meade https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256093885 Admitted California as a free state and allowed the southwestern territories to be set up without restriction on slavery.]]> 2018-04-27 16:59:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256093885 lydiah_meade https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256094518 A person arrested as a runaway slave had almost no legal rights, it also said that any person who helped a slave escape, or even refused to aid slave catchers, could be jailed.]]> 2018-04-27 17:01:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256094518 lydiah_meade https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256095695 People in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska could decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.]]> 2018-04-27 17:04:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256095695 lydiah_meade https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256096151 After the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed settlers poured in and before long Kansas had two competing governments, one for and one against slavery. And things began to get ugly.]]> 2018-04-27 17:05:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256096151 lydiah_meade https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256096429 Two days after the speech of Charles Sumner, South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks , attacked Sumner. ]]> 2018-04-27 17:06:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256096429 lydiah_meade https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256096696 Legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States; and that the Missouri Compromise (1820) was unconstitutional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j3lKSs2ZoA]]> 2018-04-27 17:07:16 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256096696 lydiah_meade https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256097337 A series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.]]> 2018-04-27 17:08:46 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256097337 lydiah_meade https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256097615 An effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.]]> 2018-04-27 17:09:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256097615 lydiah_meade https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256098712 On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Douglas, Breckenridge, and Bell. Lincoln was the first president from the Republican Party.]]> 2018-04-27 17:12:05 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256098712 lydiah_meade https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256099372 South Carolina acted first, calling for a convention to secede from the Union. State by state, conventions were held, and the Confederacy was formed. Within three months of Lincoln's election, seven states had seceded from the Union.]]> 2018-04-27 17:13:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lydiah_meade/299aqhqssdik/wish/256099372