https://padlet.com/creynolds122/3d3m1t7asog84g6p By Corinne Reynolds en-us 2021-11-22 23:15:21 UTC 2026-03-02 07:07:08 UTC hello@padlet.com creynolds122 https://padlet.com/creynolds122/3d3m1t7asog84g6p/wish/1907168103 Date: May 22, 1856
The Brooks-Sumner Caning is when US Senator Preston Brooks repeatedly beat Senator Charles Sumner with a walking cane because he had given a speech criticizing slaveholders.]]> 2021-11-22 23:59:24 UTC https://padlet.com/creynolds122/3d3m1t7asog84g6p/wish/1907168103 creynolds122 https://padlet.com/creynolds122/3d3m1t7asog84g6p/wish/1907169598 Date: September 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a set of bills that settled a debate between free and slave states about the land that had been acquired from the Mexican War. The Fugitive Slave Act was amended, and slave trade in Washington D.C. stopped.]]> 2021-11-23 00:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/creynolds122/3d3m1t7asog84g6p/wish/1907169598 creynolds122 https://padlet.com/creynolds122/3d3m1t7asog84g6p/wish/1907169747 Date: March 6, 1857
The Dred Scott decision was a decision made by the court that decided that a slave who lived in a free state was not entitled to his freedom. They also said that African Americans could never be United States citizens.]]> 2021-11-23 00:01:01 UTC https://padlet.com/creynolds122/3d3m1t7asog84g6p/wish/1907169747 creynolds122 https://padlet.com/creynolds122/3d3m1t7asog84g6p/wish/1907169935 Date: October 16-18, 1859
John Brown's Raid was an assault led by John Brown and armed abolitionists on Harper's Ferry. It was an attempt to start an armed revolt and destroy slavery.]]> 2021-11-23 00:01:12 UTC https://padlet.com/creynolds122/3d3m1t7asog84g6p/wish/1907169935 creynolds122 https://padlet.com/creynolds122/3d3m1t7asog84g6p/wish/1907170170 Date: May 30, 1854
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise and created territories that allowed for popular sovereignty. This lead to a violent uprising as proslavery and antislavery activists tried to sway the vote.]]> 2021-11-23 00:01:26 UTC https://padlet.com/creynolds122/3d3m1t7asog84g6p/wish/1907170170 creynolds122 https://padlet.com/creynolds122/3d3m1t7asog84g6p/wish/1907170593 Date: January 1, 1831
The Liberator was a newspaper run by William Lloyd Garrison, an abolitionist. It was an anti-slavery newspaper that didn't support people and acts that would prolong slavery.]]> 2021-11-23 00:01:53 UTC https://padlet.com/creynolds122/3d3m1t7asog84g6p/wish/1907170593 creynolds122 https://padlet.com/creynolds122/3d3m1t7asog84g6p/wish/1907170899 Date: November 6, 1860
The Election of 1860 was about slavery and states' rights, and left many people divided. In the end, Lincoln had won, due to earning more electoral votes than popular votes. This caused South Carolina to be the first state to secede from the Union.]]> 2021-11-23 00:02:12 UTC https://padlet.com/creynolds122/3d3m1t7asog84g6p/wish/1907170899 creynolds122 https://padlet.com/creynolds122/3d3m1t7asog84g6p/wish/1907171198 Date: April 1846-February 1848
The Mexican War started because of the annexation of Texas, as well as a dispute of whether Texas ended at the Neuces River or the Rio Grande. The US ended up winning and receiving the Texan territory.]]> 2021-11-23 00:02:30 UTC https://padlet.com/creynolds122/3d3m1t7asog84g6p/wish/1907171198 creynolds122 https://padlet.com/creynolds122/3d3m1t7asog84g6p/wish/1907258712 Date: August 21-23, 1831
The Nat Turner Revolt was a rebellion lead by a slave named Nathanial Turner. His revolt showed that slaves were unhappy with being slaves, and lead to laws that didn't allow the education, movement, or assembly of slaves.]]> 2021-11-23 01:08:33 UTC https://padlet.com/creynolds122/3d3m1t7asog84g6p/wish/1907258712 creynolds122 https://padlet.com/creynolds122/3d3m1t7asog84g6p/wish/1907259044 Date: 1820
The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to be a slave state, and for Maine to be a free state. It also banned any slavery in any states north of Missouri's border.]]> 2021-11-23 01:08:48 UTC https://padlet.com/creynolds122/3d3m1t7asog84g6p/wish/1907259044 creynolds122 https://padlet.com/creynolds122/3d3m1t7asog84g6p/wish/1907260142 Date: March 20, 1854
The Republican party was formed to stop the expansion of slavery. It consisted of anti-slavery Whigs, Democrats, and reformers who wanted to keep slavery out of the territories.]]> 2021-11-23 01:09:30 UTC https://padlet.com/creynolds122/3d3m1t7asog84g6p/wish/1907260142 creynolds122 https://padlet.com/creynolds122/3d3m1t7asog84g6p/wish/1907262910 Date: December 20, 1860
South Carolina had seceded from the United States because Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, had became president. He was known to be anti-slavery, which South Carolina had seen as a threat, so they were the first state to secede.]]> 2021-11-23 01:11:15 UTC https://padlet.com/creynolds122/3d3m1t7asog84g6p/wish/1907262910 creynolds122 https://padlet.com/creynolds122/3d3m1t7asog84g6p/wish/1907263252 Date: March 20, 1852
Uncle Tom's Cabin was an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was very popular among white people in the North for showing and dramatizing what it was like to be a slave.]]> 2021-11-23 01:11:30 UTC https://padlet.com/creynolds122/3d3m1t7asog84g6p/wish/1907263252