https://padlet.com/nakhaik2972/43cij6dat1eflfqs This is a timeline of the events leading up to the civil war. en-us 2020-05-08 18:45:51 UTC 2025-11-06 01:38:36 UTC hello@padlet.com nakhaik2972 https://padlet.com/nakhaik2972/43cij6dat1eflfqs/wish/560530780 The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was a compromise made between pro slavery and anti slavery parties. the congress passed a law for Missouri to be a slave state and Maine to be a free state. This began to cause tension between the states. ]]> 2020-05-08 18:50:56 UTC https://padlet.com/nakhaik2972/43cij6dat1eflfqs/wish/560530780 nakhaik2972 https://padlet.com/nakhaik2972/43cij6dat1eflfqs/wish/560553191 Many Northerners disapproved the law because then slavery was expanded into new territory of their land. The compromise was soon ended for a new compromise. ]]> 2020-05-08 19:03:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nakhaik2972/43cij6dat1eflfqs/wish/560553191 nakhaik2972 https://padlet.com/nakhaik2972/43cij6dat1eflfqs/wish/560573252 This was how slaves were running away to escape their owners. They did this to seek freedom and attempt to end slavery for good. They typically fled to Canada or free states in the United States, through Florida. ]]> 2020-05-08 19:14:39 UTC https://padlet.com/nakhaik2972/43cij6dat1eflfqs/wish/560573252 nakhaik2972 https://padlet.com/nakhaik2972/43cij6dat1eflfqs/wish/560579552 The Compromise of 1850 was when 5 bills passed the United States congress in 1850. These bills were attempts to resolve slavery in the United States. California was then left to be a free state, while Utah and New Mexico were to decide themselves weather to be a slave state or a free state.]]> 2020-05-08 19:18:37 UTC https://padlet.com/nakhaik2972/43cij6dat1eflfqs/wish/560579552 nakhaik2972 https://padlet.com/nakhaik2972/43cij6dat1eflfqs/wish/560587105 The Fugitive Slave Acts were a pair of  laws  allowing  the capture of runaway slaves  within the territory of the United States. After the slaves ran away to either the United States or Canada, these laws allowed their capture and for them to be returned. ]]> 2020-05-08 19:23:05 UTC https://padlet.com/nakhaik2972/43cij6dat1eflfqs/wish/560587105 nakhaik2972 https://padlet.com/nakhaik2972/43cij6dat1eflfqs/wish/560771686 Stephen A. Douglas promoted a United States legislature in 1854. This repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and disrupted the Compromise of 1850. This was also the original act that created Nebraska and Kansas. ]]> 2020-05-08 21:33:31 UTC https://padlet.com/nakhaik2972/43cij6dat1eflfqs/wish/560771686 nakhaik2972 https://padlet.com/nakhaik2972/43cij6dat1eflfqs/wish/560780324 Bleeding Kansas was a small civil war that was fought between proslavery and antislavery activists. They were fighting for control of the new territory, Kansas under the doctrine of popular sovereignty. ]]> 2020-05-08 21:41:41 UTC https://padlet.com/nakhaik2972/43cij6dat1eflfqs/wish/560780324 nakhaik2972 https://padlet.com/nakhaik2972/43cij6dat1eflfqs/wish/560878421 In court and congress, there were many arguments, and sometimes even fistfights. For example, in 1798, Roger Griswold and Matthew Lyon got into a heated fight in congress that resulted in a lot of violence and hitting.]]> 2020-05-08 23:34:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nakhaik2972/43cij6dat1eflfqs/wish/560878421 nakhaik2972 https://padlet.com/nakhaik2972/43cij6dat1eflfqs/wish/560884968 This was a fight that lasted a decade long, by a black slave named Dred-Scott. He was born into slavery around 1799 in Virginia, and took it into his own hands to try to end slavery for good. He won the battle and lived as a free man for a few years but then died later from tuberculosis in 1858. ]]> 2020-05-08 23:44:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nakhaik2972/43cij6dat1eflfqs/wish/560884968 nakhaik2972 https://padlet.com/nakhaik2972/43cij6dat1eflfqs/wish/560890291 These were the series of debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. Lincoln and Douglas had an agreement  to debate in seven of the Illinois Congressional Districts; the seven being when Douglas had not already spoken. In each of the debates, either Douglas or Lincoln would open with an hourlong address. ]]> 2020-05-08 23:52:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nakhaik2972/43cij6dat1eflfqs/wish/560890291 nakhaik2972 https://padlet.com/nakhaik2972/43cij6dat1eflfqs/wish/560895100 In 1861, Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the 16th president of the United States. He was part of the National Union Party, the Republican Party, and the Whig Party. He was in office until 1865, then later died in 1865. ]]> 2020-05-08 23:59:34 UTC https://padlet.com/nakhaik2972/43cij6dat1eflfqs/wish/560895100 nakhaik2972 https://padlet.com/nakhaik2972/43cij6dat1eflfqs/wish/560897448 In 1860, the south decided to secede from the Union and fight in the Civil War, the main reason being to defend slavery. Within just three months of Lincoln's presidency, seven of the states had seceded from the Union already. ]]> 2020-05-09 00:03:13 UTC https://padlet.com/nakhaik2972/43cij6dat1eflfqs/wish/560897448