https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv en-us 2019-04-06 23:28:41 UTC 2025-11-20 20:19:57 UTC hello@padlet.com tristan_clegg https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349196884 During the American Civil War (1861–1865), the Union, also known as the North, referred to the United States of America and specifically to the national government of President Abraham Lincoln and the 20 free states, as well as 4 border and slave states.]]> 2019-04-06 23:32:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349196884 tristan_clegg https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349196903 Uncle Tom's Cabin. (1852) A novel, first published serially, by Harriet Beecher Stowe; it paints a grim picture of life under slavery. The title character is a pious, passive slave, who is eventually beaten to death by the overseer Simon Legree.]]> 2019-04-06 23:32:49 UTC https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349196903 tristan_clegg https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349196938 any of the southern states of the US in which slavery was legal before the Civil War.]]> 2019-04-06 23:33:15 UTC https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349196938 tristan_clegg https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349196950 The laws were known as slave codes. Although each colony had differing ideas about the rights of slaves, there were some common threads in slave codes across areas where slavery was common. Legally considered property, slaves were not allowed to own property of their own.]]> 2019-04-06 23:33:40 UTC https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349196950 tristan_clegg https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349196959 the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart.]]> 2019-04-06 23:33:59 UTC https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349196959 tristan_clegg https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349197078 restriction of interest to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions at the expense of general well-being.]]> 2019-04-06 23:36:35 UTC https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349197078 tristan_clegg https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349197167 the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.]]> 2019-04-06 23:37:52 UTC https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349197167 tristan_clegg https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349197181 The later development of cotton and sugar cultivation in the Deep South in the early 18th century led to the establishment of large plantations which had hundreds of slaves. The great majority of Southern farmers owned no slaves or owned fewer than five slaves. Slaves were much more expensive than land.]]> 2019-04-06 23:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349197181 tristan_clegg https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349197208 The overseer was paid to get the most work out of the slaves; therefore, overseers often resorted to whatever means was necessary. Sometimes the slaves would drive the overseer off the plantation in desperation.]]> 2019-04-06 23:38:50 UTC https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349197208 tristan_clegg https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349197232 Oral tradition is information passed down through the generations by word of mouth that is not written down. This includes historical and cultural traditions, literature and law.

]]> 2019-04-06 23:39:24 UTC https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349197232 tristan_clegg https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349197280 Nat Turner was an African-American slave who led a two-day rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia, beginning August 21, 1831. The rebellion caused the death of approximately 60 white men, women and children. Whites organized militias and called out regular troops to suppress the uprising.]]> 2019-04-06 23:40:12 UTC https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349197280 tristan_clegg https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349197904 John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown's party of 22 was defeated by a company of U.S. Marines, led by First Lieutenant Israel Greene.]]> 2019-04-06 23:54:55 UTC https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349197904 tristan_clegg https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349197938 The Fugitive Slave Law was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. Abolitionists nicknamed it the "Bloodhound Law", for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves.]]> 2019-04-06 23:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349197938 tristan_clegg https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349197976 a state of the US in which slavery was illegal.]]> 2019-04-06 23:56:25 UTC https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349197976 tristan_clegg https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349197997 Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.]]> 2019-04-06 23:56:45 UTC https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349197997 tristan_clegg https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349198012 The fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.]]> 2019-04-06 23:57:19 UTC https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349198012 tristan_clegg https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349198056 Dred Scott was an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters.]]> 2019-04-06 23:58:13 UTC https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349198056 tristan_clegg https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349198096 the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.]]> 2019-04-06 23:59:02 UTC https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349198096 tristan_clegg https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349198117 A war between citizens of the same country.]]> 2019-04-06 23:59:32 UTC https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349198117 tristan_clegg https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349198136 A confederacy is a political union. The most famous American confederacy consisted of the southern states who fought the northern states in the American Civil War. Any such political union could be called a confederacy.]]> 2019-04-06 23:59:56 UTC https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349198136 tristan_clegg https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349198238 The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War.]]> 2019-04-07 00:01:40 UTC https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349198238 tristan_clegg https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349198324 An act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.]]> 2019-04-07 00:03:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349198324 tristan_clegg https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349198335 The 16th president of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth]]> 2019-04-07 00:03:41 UTC https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349198335 tristan_clegg https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349198358 The action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.]]> 2019-04-07 00:04:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tristan_clegg/7y0fgs8uihsv/wish/349198358