https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk Events leading up to the civil war. en-us 2022-01-28 19:08:20 UTC 2026-01-17 03:34:11 UTC hello@padlet.com hwaldron8 https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2018514884 When the mexican war ended, the states that we had taken would either have to join the US as a free state or as a slave state and they would have to decide which is which.]]> 2022-01-28 19:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2018514884 hwaldron8 https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2018521677 The fugitive slave act provided for the seizure and return of runaway slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a federal territory.]]> 2022-01-28 19:15:01 UTC https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2018521677 hwaldron8 https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2018524326 Bleeding Kansas describes the period of repeated outbreaks of violent guerrilla warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces following the creation of the new territory of Kansas in 1854. In all, some 55 people were killed between 1855 and 1859.]]> 2022-01-28 19:16:36 UTC https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2018524326 hwaldron8 https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2018525854 Dred Scott was an enslaved African-American man who, along with his wife, Harriet, unsuccessfully sued for freedom for themselves and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857.]]> 2022-01-28 19:17:34 UTC https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2018525854 hwaldron8 https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2018537874 The 1808 Act imposed heavy penalties on international traders, but did not end slavery itself nor the domestic sale of slaves. Not only did it drive trade underground, but ships caught illegally trading were often brought into the United States and its passengers sold into slavery.]]> 2022-01-28 19:25:29 UTC https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2018537874 hwaldron8 https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2018546478 The 3/5 compromise was the compromise that decided that  three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.]]> 2022-01-28 19:31:08 UTC https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2018546478 hwaldron8 https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2018567923 The 1860 United States presidential election was the 19th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 6, 1860. ]]> 2022-01-28 19:45:54 UTC https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2018567923 hwaldron8 https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2018572713 With the end of the revolutionary war ending, America could now bring back their troops and have time to make more weapons and replenish themselves before the war. Without the threat of Britain they didn't have to work together to win after the war, so in a way the war tore the north and the south apart at the end of it.]]> 2022-01-28 19:49:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2018572713 hwaldron8 https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2018586475 The Missouri Compromise Divided the USA into 2 parts, the northern part and the southern part. They did not agree on slavery so the southern part allowed slavery and the northern part didnt']]> 2022-01-28 19:59:40 UTC https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2018586475 hwaldron8 https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2022062107 The land of the Louisiana purchase is the land that everyone fought over.]]> 2022-01-31 19:11:08 UTC https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2022062107 hwaldron8 https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2022071096 The chararcter uncle tom is an african american who retains his integrity and refuses to betray his fellow slaves at the cot of his life which was controversial.]]> 2022-01-31 19:15:10 UTC https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2022071096 hwaldron8 https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2022077271  A member of the House of Representatives entered the Senate Chamber and savagely beat a senator into unconsciousness.]]> 2022-01-31 19:18:01 UTC https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2022077271 hwaldron8 https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2022081328 The Gadsden Purchase is a roughly 30,000 square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was acquired by the United States in a treaty signed by American ambassador to Mexico James Gadsden]]> 2022-01-31 19:20:01 UTC https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2022081328 hwaldron8 https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2022089721 The Compromise of 1850 was made up of five bills that attempted to resolve disputes over slavery in new territories added to the United States]]> 2022-01-31 19:23:59 UTC https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2022089721 hwaldron8 https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2022097069  The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty.]]> 2022-01-31 19:27:29 UTC https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2022097069 hwaldron8 https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2022110575
Rhode Island becomes the first of the original Thirteen Colonies to introduce anti-slavery laws that would accentuate the divide between Northern and Southern states.

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Thomas Jefferson draws up the Declaration of Independence to assert the sovereign rights of the American colonists. ]]> 2022-01-31 19:37:03 UTC https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2022117620 hwaldron8 https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2022128629 John Brown attempts to lead an armed slave insurrection by seizing a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He believed slavery could only be ended by violent means.]]> 2022-01-31 19:41:58 UTC https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2022128629 hwaldron8 https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2022139866 The results of the 1820 census show of a total population of a little more than 10 million, 15% are slaves, though they are virtually non-existent in the northern states. However, in the South, it as high as 51% in South Carolina and 45% in Louisiana Which shows how many slaves are in america which is controversial.]]> 2022-01-31 19:47:20 UTC https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2022139866 hwaldron8 https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2022143840  The state of New York abolishes slavery.]]> 2022-01-31 19:49:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hwaldron8/5drx9a2wqy2vipvk/wish/2022143840