by Hadley Robins

Growing Sectionalism (1820 - 1850) Padlet

hadley_robins — 2015-02-09 18:50:14 UTC

Below you will see a collection of topics and an essential question about each topic. Your group has been assigned to read and watch information related to one of the topics below. Once you have finished reading and discussing, you may answer the question by creating a new Padlet - just click the pencil in the bottom left hand corner of the page.

Missouri Compromise

hadley_robins — 2015-02-09 18:50:14 UTC

How did the Missouri Compromise change the relationship between the North and the South?

Free Soil Party

hadley_robins — 2015-02-09 18:50:14 UTC

Who did arguments of the Free Soil Party appeal to and why?

Dred Scott Case

hadley_robins — 2015-02-09 18:50:14 UTC

What lasting effects does the decision of the Dred Scott case have and why?

Nat Turner

hadley_robins — 2015-02-09 18:50:14 UTC

How do the actions of Nat Turner play into the fears of white southerners?

Fugitive Slave Law (1850)

hadley_robins — 2015-02-09 18:50:14 UTC

Who was upset with the Fugitive Slave Law and why?

Popular Sovereignty

hadley_robins — 2015-02-09 18:50:14 UTC

How does popular sovereignty play into larger problems of sectionalism?

Compromise of 1850

hadley_robins — 2015-02-09 18:50:14 UTC

How did the Compromise of 1850 reflect the goals of the various sections of the country?

Nat Turner

2015-02-10 16:32:46 UTC

Nat Turner was a black american slave, who led a sucessful slave rebellion in 1831 that helped create more events that led the fear of the white american people. Nat Turner was literate, and educated as a slave because his owner allowed him to learn the ethics of american culture and literature. This benefited his opinion and his revolts against the American people. He created several missions to rebel against slave owners & plantation owners which ultimatly lead to fifty-six blacks being executed, and more than 200 others beaten by angry mobs or white militias. Ultimatly, they were a threat to the white plantion owners and that caused the beating and hurting of these black slaves.

Missouri Compromise

2015-02-10 16:35:46 UTC

The Missouri Compromise led to tensions between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions across the country. At the time, the United States had 22 states that were evenly divided between free and slaves states. Therefore, Missouri coming as a slave state would ruin the balance. So, the northerns argued that Congress had the power to prohibit slavery. And, the Southerners held that new states had the same freedom of action as the original thirteen and were thus free to choose slavery if they wished. After the Senate and House passed different bills, a compromsise bill was work out. In the bill, Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as free, and except for Missouri, slavery was to be excluded from the Louisiana Purchase lands north of latitude 36 degrees 30

Fugitive Slave Act

2015-02-10 16:36:40 UTC

The fugitive slave act allowed state governments to capture runaway slaves, return them to their owners, and punish all that abetted in their escape. Northern states were upset that the act was passed. They felt it allowed their states to be grounds for bounty hunters. The fugitive slave act also led to many free african americans to be kidnapped and put into slavery.

dred scott case

2015-02-10 16:37:02 UTC

This started with a man named Dred Scott that ran away to freedom. He was arrested and taken to the court for judgement. In the court case he was tried as guilty and regardless of him coming to a free state he was sent back to the south as a runaway. This was a big lead to the Civil War because it was making slaves just more like merchandise and less like people and now they had almost no way to get to freedom. Many abolitionists took this as the last straw and new war was eminent.

brandon ogbu, simi ona, alisha stephens,

ndey jasseh

Compromise of 1850

2015-02-10 16:40:43 UTC

The addition of California as a free state pleased the Northerners who supported abolitionism. The Fugitive Slave Act stated that any slave who escapes to the North have to be sent back to their slave owners. This disrupted many of the slaves' lives that they were trying to start. This act also encouraged Northerners to join the abolitionism movement because it gave even more reason for slavery to be outlawed.

-Alyssa Adel, Andrea Bocanegra, Mariann Kim, Dana Lee

Popular Sovereignty

2015-02-10 16:40:55 UTC

Popular sovereignty gave both the north and the south the right to vote wheather slavery would be allowed in the territories. It was thought to be the obvious solution but there were many problems. The north and the south had strongly different opinions on slavery and popular sovereignty increased the tension between the two groups

Free Soil Party

hadley_robins — 2015-02-10 17:24:19 UTC

The free-soil party appealed to northerns who did not want slavery and also southerns who opposed slavery extending into the west. David Wilmot of Pennsylvania, was fearful of expanding slave power within the national government in 1846 introduced into Congress his famous Wilmot Proviso, calling for the prohibition of slavery in the vast southwestern lands that had been newly acquired from Mexico. The party had low impact in the government and was later absorbed by the Republican Party.

Landon Cutler

Victoria Gallagher