https://padlet.com/emily_boone/8asntg6l2ukx en-us 2018-04-27 16:00:46 UTC 2018-05-04 16:02:54 UTC hello@padlet.com emily_boone https://padlet.com/emily_boone/8asntg6l2ukx/wish/256071184 The Missouri Compromise was an agreement made by Congress that Missouri would be a slave state and Maine to be a free state to maintain power between slave and free states. They created an imaginary line of latitude at 36, 30 where any state emitted North of that line was free.]]> 2018-04-27 16:05:03 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_boone/8asntg6l2ukx/wish/256071184 emily_boone https://padlet.com/emily_boone/8asntg6l2ukx/wish/256076476 Unraveling the Compromise, John Quincey Adams believed the contest over slavery was over but the issue was brought to the open once again to the Second Great Awakening. In 1839, the gag rule prevented consideration of an antislavery proposal by J.Q.A, who was now a member of Congress.Many tried to control the movement of slaves afterward, by disgarding abolitionists papers.]]> 2018-04-27 16:18:31 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_boone/8asntg6l2ukx/wish/256076476 emily_boone https://padlet.com/emily_boone/8asntg6l2ukx/wish/256581083 Fugitive slaves like Nat Turner were running away and the northerners helped them. Slaveholders thought every time one ran away their property was vanishing, and demanded for a fugitive slave law. ]]> 2018-04-30 15:55:57 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_boone/8asntg6l2ukx/wish/256581083 emily_boone https://padlet.com/emily_boone/8asntg6l2ukx/wish/256593104 President James Polk created a bill for funds to the war with Mexico, and a representative named David Wilmot added an ammendment to the bill known as the Wilmot Proviso. Slavery nor involuntary sevitude shall ever exist, and this was passed by the House but not by the Senate.]]> 2018-04-30 16:20:35 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_boone/8asntg6l2ukx/wish/256593104 emily_boone https://padlet.com/emily_boone/8asntg6l2ukx/wish/257331923 It was declared by Henry Clay that Washington could have slaves but they could no longer be bought or sold there. Southerners were unhappy with this decision and even thinking of leaving the Union and war was talked of. Few Americans wanted to face these concequences, so in 1850, Clays plan was approved. ]]> 2018-05-02 16:17:31 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_boone/8asntg6l2ukx/wish/257331923 emily_boone https://padlet.com/emily_boone/8asntg6l2ukx/wish/257336543 For the next three years, Congress dabated over the issues of slavery; Southerners wanted all of the Mexican Cession freely open to slavery while the North wanted all of it closed. Then eventually California decided to enter the Union as a free state which upset the Southerners and thrilled the Northerners. But the year ended over a deadlocked situation because this was an unequal representation of equal rights.

]]> 2018-05-02 16:27:10 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_boone/8asntg6l2ukx/wish/257336543 emily_boone https://padlet.com/emily_boone/8asntg6l2ukx/wish/257730827 2018-05-03 16:10:59 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_boone/8asntg6l2ukx/wish/257730827 emily_boone https://padlet.com/emily_boone/8asntg6l2ukx/wish/257734713 People in the North and South were unhappy with the Fugitive Slave Act; a person arrested as a runaway had almost no legal rights, when some slaves decided to stand their ground and fight. Northerners refusal to support the act infuriated slaveholders; they opposed slavery and defied the law.]]> 2018-05-03 16:18:32 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_boone/8asntg6l2ukx/wish/257734713 emily_boone https://padlet.com/emily_boone/8asntg6l2ukx/wish/257737761 An uproar was caused by Douglas wanting to build a railroad in California. He said it was up to the settlers wether to permit slavery or not; Northerners were haunted by slaves marching the plains in terrible weather.]]> 2018-05-03 16:23:48 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_boone/8asntg6l2ukx/wish/257737761 emily_boone https://padlet.com/emily_boone/8asntg6l2ukx/wish/257740855 Before long, Kansas had two competing governments ;one for slavery and those against it. The struggle over slavery soon turned violent, border ruffians invaded Lawerence, and outrage in the North caused a man named John Brown to hack five men to death. ]]> 2018-05-03 16:30:31 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_boone/8asntg6l2ukx/wish/257740855 emily_boone https://padlet.com/emily_boone/8asntg6l2ukx/wish/257745916 Sumner attacked Brooks with cane and it broke. Douglass wanted Kansas a slave state. Scott said staying in wisconsin made him free. Brown wanted to give slaves weapons to fight against slavery. ]]> 2018-05-03 16:41:16 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_boone/8asntg6l2ukx/wish/257745916