https://padlet.com/lee3235/2ft0u3jsb0wj50q3 The Civil War was not something that happened overnight. It was a crescendo over the course of many years. This digital timeline (sort of) shows the many events that occurred that pushed the country closer to the war. en-us 2020-05-11 15:11:13 UTC 2024-10-01 05:07:37 UTC hello@padlet.com lee3235 https://padlet.com/lee3235/2ft0u3jsb0wj50q3/wish/565163841 Missouri is added as a slave state, and a new boundary is established across the remainder of the Louisiana Territory, preventing the spread of slavery to any other states north of the 36th parallel.]]> 2020-05-11 15:14:58 UTC https://padlet.com/lee3235/2ft0u3jsb0wj50q3/wish/565163841 lee3235 https://padlet.com/lee3235/2ft0u3jsb0wj50q3/wish/565229778 The Missouri Compromise of 1820 may have saved the Union, but in the 1830’s, a new wave of anti-slavery bills flooded Congress, fueled by The Second Great Awakening. Northerners were determined to abolish slavery through politics, but Southerners stopped any conversation of slavery. ]]> 2020-05-11 15:36:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lee3235/2ft0u3jsb0wj50q3/wish/565229778 lee3235 https://padlet.com/lee3235/2ft0u3jsb0wj50q3/wish/565539321 Slaves who resisted bondage through running away escaped to the North, where slavery was banned. As a result, many Southern slave owners were outraged.]]> 2020-05-11 17:18:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lee3235/2ft0u3jsb0wj50q3/wish/565539321 lee3235 https://padlet.com/lee3235/2ft0u3jsb0wj50q3/wish/565697460 California is admitted as a free state, and New Mexico and Utah are allowed to vote for themselves. Slave markets are banned in Washington, D.C., and the Fugitive Slave Act would be implemented.]]> 2020-05-11 18:16:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lee3235/2ft0u3jsb0wj50q3/wish/565697460 lee3235 https://padlet.com/lee3235/2ft0u3jsb0wj50q3/wish/565721357 Northerners become infuriated that they themselves must participate in the recapturing runaway slaves. Harriet Beecher Stowe then writes a book called Uncle Tom's Cabin, and abolition grows in the North.]]> 2020-05-11 18:26:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lee3235/2ft0u3jsb0wj50q3/wish/565721357 lee3235 https://padlet.com/lee3235/2ft0u3jsb0wj50q3/wish/565744436 Kansas and Nebraska are allowed to vote for themselves over the issue of slavery. The Kansas-Nebraska Act brings the nation closer to civil war that ever before, as both abolition and pro-slavery groups rushed into the territory in hopes of swinging the vote.]]> 2020-05-11 18:35:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lee3235/2ft0u3jsb0wj50q3/wish/565744436 lee3235 https://padlet.com/lee3235/2ft0u3jsb0wj50q3/wish/565748413 Pro-slavery “border ruffians” targeted and attack abolitionists in Kansas. Meanwhile, Jay-hawking abolitionists attempt to terrorize pro-slavery families.]]> 2020-05-11 18:36:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lee3235/2ft0u3jsb0wj50q3/wish/565748413 lee3235 https://padlet.com/lee3235/2ft0u3jsb0wj50q3/wish/565752148 Senator from Massachusetts, Charles Sumner, hurls insults at southern senators, and a few days later, the nephew of Andrew Butler attacks Sumner with a metal-tipped cane in the Senate.]]> 2020-05-11 18:38:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lee3235/2ft0u3jsb0wj50q3/wish/565752148 lee3235 https://padlet.com/lee3235/2ft0u3jsb0wj50q3/wish/565753330 A series of fiery debates arose when Abraham Lincoln creates a new political party: the Republicans. Though he didn't win the election in 1858, he left a lasting impression on the north, deepening the desire for abolition.]]> 2020-05-11 18:39:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lee3235/2ft0u3jsb0wj50q3/wish/565753330 lee3235 https://padlet.com/lee3235/2ft0u3jsb0wj50q3/wish/565755559 Lincoln is elected as president in 1860, where he won with only 40% of the votes, all cast in the north. This left the impression to southerners that they were becoming inferior to the northerners.]]> 2020-05-11 18:40:03 UTC https://padlet.com/lee3235/2ft0u3jsb0wj50q3/wish/565755559 lee3235 https://padlet.com/lee3235/2ft0u3jsb0wj50q3/wish/565768073 Seven southern states secede from the Union and become the Confederate States of America. ]]> 2020-05-11 18:45:24 UTC https://padlet.com/lee3235/2ft0u3jsb0wj50q3/wish/565768073 lee3235 https://padlet.com/lee3235/2ft0u3jsb0wj50q3/wish/565837297 The court's ruling of Dred Scott's case shocked northern abolitionists when they heard that Scott could not sue his owner because he was not nor could not be a US citizen. This also led to slavery being legal in all of the western territories.]]> 2020-05-11 19:14:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lee3235/2ft0u3jsb0wj50q3/wish/565837297 lee3235 https://padlet.com/lee3235/2ft0u3jsb0wj50q3/wish/565909298 2020-05-11 19:45:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lee3235/2ft0u3jsb0wj50q3/wish/565909298