https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q Made with a bold sensibility en-us 2018-03-01 21:33:39 UTC 2025-03-09 13:37:33 UTC hello@padlet.com 3048711 https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237203074  Women's rights is the fight for the idea that women should have equal rights with men.]]> 2018-03-01 21:40:59 UTC https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237203074 3048711 https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237204359 John Bell was an American politician, attorney, and planter. One of Tennessee's most prominent antebellum politicians, he served in the House of Representatives from 1827 to 1841, and in the Senate from 1847 to 1859.]]> 2018-03-01 21:45:03 UTC https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237204359 3048711 https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237204673 The Constitutional Union Party was a political party in the United States created in 1860 which ran against the Republicans and Democrats as a fourth party in 1860. ]]> 2018-03-01 21:46:09 UTC https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237204673 3048711 https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237205271 John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.]]> 2018-03-01 21:48:05 UTC https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237205271 3048711 https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237205735 Jefferson Davis was an American politician who served as the only President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865.]]> 2018-03-01 21:49:44 UTC https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237205735 3048711 https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237205953 Freeport Doctrine was Stephen Douglas's doctrine that, in spite of the Dred Scott decision, slavery could be excluded from territories of the United States by local legislation. ]]> 2018-03-01 21:50:30 UTC https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237205953 3048711 https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237206905 The Lincoln–Douglas debates were 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.]]> 2018-03-01 21:53:16 UTC https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237206905 3048711 https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237207613 Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.]]> 2018-03-01 21:55:38 UTC https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237207613 3048711 https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237208423 Roger Brooke Taney was the fifth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864.]]> 2018-03-01 21:58:44 UTC https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237208423 3048711 https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237208809 Dred Scott, a black slave, and his wife had once belonged to army surgeon John Emerson, who had bought him from the Peter Blow family of St. Louis.]]> 2018-03-01 22:00:02 UTC https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237208809 3048711 https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237209287 The Republican Party, commonly referred to as the GOP, is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.]]> 2018-03-01 22:02:18 UTC https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237209287 3048711 https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237209638 The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.]]> 2018-03-01 22:03:51 UTC https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237209638 3048711 https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237210278 Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.]]> 2018-03-01 22:06:14 UTC https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237210278 3048711 https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237210623 The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.]]> 2018-03-01 22:07:17 UTC https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237210623 3048711 https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237211192 A set of laws, passed in the midst of fierce wrangling between groups favoring slavery and groups opposing it, that attempted to give something to both sides.]]> 2018-03-01 22:09:31 UTC https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237211192 3048711 https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237211404 The Free Soil Party was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections as well as in some state elections.]]> 2018-03-01 22:10:26 UTC https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237211404 3048711 https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237211694 restriction of interest to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions at the expense of general well-being.]]> 2018-03-01 22:11:48 UTC https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237211694 3048711 https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237212038 Popular sovereignty, or the sovereignty of the peoples' rule, is part of the seven principles, that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people]]> 2018-03-01 22:13:05 UTC https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237212038 3048711 https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237212520 The Wilmot Proviso proposed an American law to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War. ]]> 2018-03-01 22:15:02 UTC https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237212520 3048711 https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237212731 Stephen Arnold Douglas was an American politician from Illinois and the designer of the Kansas–Nebraska Act]]> 2018-03-01 22:15:53 UTC https://padlet.com/3048711/2g9o2a3lxl4q/wish/237212731