https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez Made with a stroke of good luck en-us 2018-04-27 14:02:26 UTC 2026-03-11 23:15:33 UTC hello@padlet.com rigo_corona https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256017472 An agreement made by congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted as a free state. It also created an imaginary line in in which ant future state north of this line would be a free state and south of the line would be a slave state.]]> 2018-04-27 14:04:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256017472 rigo_corona https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256020612 Southerners proposed a bill that would extend the Missouri Compromise line all the way to the Pacific. Slavery would be banned north of that line and allowed south of it. The result would be unequal representation of slave states and free states in Congress]]> 2018-04-27 14:10:19 UTC https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256020612 rigo_corona https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256023826 A person who flees or tries to escape.]]> 2018-04-27 14:17:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256023826 rigo_corona https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256024876 An agreement between the pro- and anti-slavery factions regulating slavery in the western territories.]]> 2018-04-27 14:19:52 UTC https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256024876 rigo_corona https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256025944 For the next three years, Congress debated what to do about slavery in the territory gained from Mexico. Southerners wanted all of the Mexican Cession open to slavery, but Northerners wanted all of it closed.]]> 2018-04-27 14:22:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256025944 rigo_corona https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256026907 Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.]]> 2018-04-27 14:24:13 UTC https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256026907 rigo_corona https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256027390 People in the North and the South were unhappy with the Fugitive Slave Act, though for different reasons.Northerners did not want to enforce the act, whereas Southerners felt the act did not do enough to ensure the return of their escaped property.]]> 2018-04-27 14:25:07 UTC https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256027390 rigo_corona https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256661034 Northerners who were already horrified by slavery were roused to fury by two events in 1854: the publication of the so-called Ostend Manifesto and the Kansas-Nebraska Act.]]> 2018-04-30 18:43:57 UTC https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256661034 rigo_corona https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256661990 After the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1854, settlers poured into Kansas. Most were peaceful farmers looking for good farmland, but some settlers moved to Kansas either to support or to oppose slavery. In the South, towns sent their young men to Kansas, and in the North, abolitionists raised money to send weapons to antislavery settlers. Before long, Kansas had two competing governments in the territory, one for slavery and one against it.]]> 2018-04-30 18:45:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256661990 rigo_corona https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256662415 The violence in Kansas greatly disturbed Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts. To Sumner, it was proof of what he had long suspected—that Senator Stephen Douglas had plotted with Southerners to make Kansas a slave state.]]> 2018-04-30 18:47:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256662415 rigo_corona https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256662950 In 1857, the slavery controversy shifted from Congress to the Supreme Court, which was about to decide a case concerning a Missouri slave named Dred Scott. Years earlier, Scott had traveled with his owner to Wisconsin, where slavery was banned by the Missouri Compromise. When he returned to Missouri, Scott went to court to win his freedom, arguing that his stay in Wisconsin had made him a free man.]]> 2018-04-30 18:48:37 UTC https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256662950 rigo_corona https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256663467 Lincoln's opponent in the Senate race was Senator Stephen Douglas, an Illinois senator who saw no reason why the nation could not go on half-slave and half-free.When Lincoln challenged him to debate the slavery issue, Douglas agreed.]]> 2018-04-30 18:49:45 UTC https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256663467 rigo_corona https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256663948 While Lincoln fought to stop the spread of slavery through politics, abolitionist John Brown adopted a more extreme approach. Rather than wait for Congress to act, Brown planned to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. An arsenal is a place where weapons and ammunition are stored.Brown wanted to use the weapons to arm slaves for a rebellion that would end slavery.]]> 2018-04-30 18:50:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256663948 rigo_corona https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256665131 With his opposition divided three ways, Lincoln sailed to victory, but it was an odd victory. Lincoln won the presidential election with just 40 percent of the votes, all of them cast in the North. In ten Southern states, he was not even on the ballot.]]> 2018-04-30 18:53:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256665131 rigo_corona https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256853406 In the weeks following the election, talk of secession filled the air. Alarmed senators formed a committee to search for yet another compromise that might hold the nation together. They knew that finding one would not be easy, but they still had to do something to stop the rush toward disunion and disaster.]]> 2018-05-01 13:58:06 UTC https://padlet.com/rigo_corona/68s78fh3zxez/wish/256853406