https://padlet.com/myrickj0702/3xd9dhvmxgsy Even before Abraham Lincoln took office, there was an obvious split among the nation. This disagreement over slavery resulted in protests, raids, brawls and a thick tension. The issue was attempted to be solved by different unsuccessful tactics, acts, and laws, only resulting in more fear and anger. As John Brown said in a note he left right before he was executed, "I John Brown am now quite certain that crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood". The secession of the Southern states was acted out of fear and that same fear and rage will have been the reason for the start of the Civil War. en-us 2018-04-02 15:52:17 UTC 2018-04-24 04:25:44 UTC hello@padlet.com myrickj0702 https://padlet.com/myrickj0702/3xd9dhvmxgsy/wish/247851436 A compromise Congress made in 1820 in order to maintain balance in slave and free states when they admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Congress also created a border where north of the imaginary line, slavery was banned. Unfortunately, this  action only upset the North and the South more.
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]]> 2018-04-02 16:11:06 UTC https://padlet.com/myrickj0702/3xd9dhvmxgsy/wish/247851436 myrickj0702 https://padlet.com/myrickj0702/3xd9dhvmxgsy/wish/247851635 As the Second Great Awakening began, a lot more antislavery petitions occurred only causing the "Gag Rule", which silenced and shut down all debate over slavery. Despite this, abolitionists still persisted, sharing their opinions and ideas in newspapers and other media.
Source: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-E8b5RqwNcEE/Td5FKYvTdtI/AAAAAAAABSg/99Z4dy42erg/s1600/gag_rule.jpg]]> 2018-04-02 16:11:45 UTC https://padlet.com/myrickj0702/3xd9dhvmxgsy/wish/247851635 myrickj0702 https://padlet.com/myrickj0702/3xd9dhvmxgsy/wish/247851759 After Nat Turner's Rebellion, many individuals slaves started running away to freedom. Slave owners began demanding a law to be passed so they could earn back the fugitives that fled.
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Source: https://freedmenspatrol.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/david-wilmot.png]]> 2018-04-02 16:13:15 UTC https://padlet.com/myrickj0702/3xd9dhvmxgsy/wish/247852067 myrickj0702 https://padlet.com/myrickj0702/3xd9dhvmxgsy/wish/248183753 Another compromise was made so that Missouri Compromise line was extended all the way to the Pacific. In 1849, California applied to be in the Union as a free state. People worried that the balance between free and slave states would be disrupted by California's admission.
Source: http://history.house.gov/HistoricalHighlight/Detail/35228?ret=True]]> 2018-04-03 16:01:31 UTC https://padlet.com/myrickj0702/3xd9dhvmxgsy/wish/248183753 myrickj0702 https://padlet.com/myrickj0702/3xd9dhvmxgsy/wish/248184008 A plan created by Kentucky senator, Henry Clay, in 1850 and brought to Daniel Webster. After nine months, Congress agreed to his plan that allowed California to be admitted as a free state and allowed New Mexico and Utah territories to choose their stance. This compromise also helped create a stronger fugitive slave law and ended slave trade in the nation's capital. After the plan was adopted, most people were happy , but there were some Southerners were still uneasy about it.
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Source: History.com]]> 2018-04-03 16:02:27 UTC https://padlet.com/myrickj0702/3xd9dhvmxgsy/wish/248184286 myrickj0702 https://padlet.com/myrickj0702/3xd9dhvmxgsy/wish/251948698 A final version of a bill that Senator Stephan A. Douglas ordered for a railroad to be built through California. It created two new territories Kansas and Nebraska and left it up to the settlers who lived there to decide if they were free or slave states (popular sovereignty). 
Source: Youtube.com (Hip Hughes)]]> 2018-04-15 23:13:10 UTC https://padlet.com/myrickj0702/3xd9dhvmxgsy/wish/251948698 myrickj0702 https://padlet.com/myrickj0702/3xd9dhvmxgsy/wish/251948710 After the Nebraska-Kansas Act was passed, white settlers scrambled to Kansas. Both pro slavery people and abolitionists were now living in the same state together. On May 21, 1886, pro slavery settlers attacked the part of Kansas that was home to abolitionists. This only resulted in the a revenge attack led by John Brown, a antislavery figure, who killed five men that were suspected of supporting slavery.
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Source:https://todayinhistoryblog.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/sumner3.jpg]]> 2018-04-15 23:13:22 UTC https://padlet.com/myrickj0702/3xd9dhvmxgsy/wish/251948722 myrickj0702 https://padlet.com/myrickj0702/3xd9dhvmxgsy/wish/251948737 A decision made by the Supreme Court that stated no African American was able to become a US citizen. Chief Justice Roger Taney came to this conclusion because he argued that slaves were property and the Constitution says that property cannot be taken from people. The decision pleased slaveholders, but abolitionists were shocked and raging with fury.
Source: Youtube.com (Hip Hughes)]]> 2018-04-15 23:13:31 UTC https://padlet.com/myrickj0702/3xd9dhvmxgsy/wish/251948737 myrickj0702 https://padlet.com/myrickj0702/3xd9dhvmxgsy/wish/251948761 A debate between Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephan A Douglas that was centered around slavery. Lincoln argued that the Dred- Scott Decision did not settle the issue of slavery, but Douglas disagreed. Lincoln also believed that slavery was not to be dealt with as a legal matter, but more of a moral one. Lincoln lost the election, but he became national figure.
Source: https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/debates.htm]]> 2018-04-15 23:13:44 UTC https://padlet.com/myrickj0702/3xd9dhvmxgsy/wish/251948761 myrickj0702 https://padlet.com/myrickj0702/3xd9dhvmxgsy/wish/251948774 John Brown was an abolitionist who decided to take a more violent approach to solving the issue of slavery. He and his men went on a raid to seize the Souths' arsenal and use it to arm slaves in a rebellion. This did not end successfully and him and his men were captured and killed.
Source: https://cdn.essaywriting.expert/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/american-flag65.jpg]]> 2018-04-15 23:13:54 UTC https://padlet.com/myrickj0702/3xd9dhvmxgsy/wish/251948774 myrickj0702 https://padlet.com/myrickj0702/3xd9dhvmxgsy/wish/251948789 In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln won with just forty percent of the votes, most of which were in the North. The election made the South realize that they were in now in minority. With Lincoln in office, they feared that Congress was bound to abolish slavery.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTjYG1Tyaos]]> 2018-04-15 23:14:02 UTC https://padlet.com/myrickj0702/3xd9dhvmxgsy/wish/251948789 myrickj0702 https://padlet.com/myrickj0702/3xd9dhvmxgsy/wish/251948805 Because of this new fear of being in minority in Congress, seven Southern states seceded from the Union on December 20, 1860. In February 1861, those states came together, creating the Confederate States of America. 
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