https://padlet.com/cindyskaterdancer/8wzigur2ioir3prv Southerners and Northerners have always been split about the idea of slavery. While Southerners support slavery, Northerners greatly oppose it. These disagreements have often led to a lot of violence between Southerners and Northerners and eventually led to the South seceding from the Union. All the events created more and north tension between the North and the South which later led to the Civil War. en-us 2020-05-12 04:20:24 UTC 2024-11-24 21:20:18 UTC hello@padlet.com cindyskaterdancer https://padlet.com/cindyskaterdancer/8wzigur2ioir3prv/wish/566530418 The Missouri Compromise was made in 1820, to ensure the balance of free and slave states in congress. Under the Missouri Compromise, Missouri would enter the union as a slave state, while Maine would enter the union as a free state.]]> 2020-05-12 04:24:00 UTC https://padlet.com/cindyskaterdancer/8wzigur2ioir3prv/wish/566530418 cindyskaterdancer https://padlet.com/cindyskaterdancer/8wzigur2ioir3prv/wish/566534661 The gag rule helped keep slavery out of Congress for a while, but abolitionists continued to attack slavery, while Southerners were trying to control the problem of fugitive slaves. In 1849, California applied to the union as a free state, which therefore caused a lot of commotion with the Northerners and Southerners.]]> 2020-05-12 04:29:02 UTC https://padlet.com/cindyskaterdancer/8wzigur2ioir3prv/wish/566534661 cindyskaterdancer https://padlet.com/cindyskaterdancer/8wzigur2ioir3prv/wish/566538696 After Nat Turners' Rebellion more and more slaves started to rebel and ran away to freedom in the North, where they were helped by kind northerners. These runaway slaves enraged the Southerners, causing them to push Congress to pass a law that returned the slaves back to them.]]> 2020-05-12 04:34:21 UTC https://padlet.com/cindyskaterdancer/8wzigur2ioir3prv/wish/566538696 cindyskaterdancer https://padlet.com/cindyskaterdancer/8wzigur2ioir3prv/wish/566540971 Under the Compromise of 1850, California would be admitted as a free state, and New Mexico and Utah territories could decide whether to allow slavery. The compromise also ended the slave trade in Washington D.C and created a stronger fugitive law. This Compromise wasn't accepted by the Northerners or Southerners. They all felt that there wasn't enough benefits for either side.]]> 2020-05-12 04:37:32 UTC https://padlet.com/cindyskaterdancer/8wzigur2ioir3prv/wish/566540971 cindyskaterdancer https://padlet.com/cindyskaterdancer/8wzigur2ioir3prv/wish/566544430 Northerners and Southerners weren't in favor of the Fugitive Slave Act. Northerners didn't want to enforce the Act, while Southerners felt that it didn’t do enough to ensure the return of their escaped property.]]> 2020-05-12 04:42:15 UTC https://padlet.com/cindyskaterdancer/8wzigur2ioir3prv/wish/566544430 cindyskaterdancer https://padlet.com/cindyskaterdancer/8wzigur2ioir3prv/wish/566546090 The Nebraska-Kansas Act created two new territories, Kansas and Nebraska. It also abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers themselves to decide whether or not they would allow slavery. ]]> 2020-05-12 04:44:30 UTC https://padlet.com/cindyskaterdancer/8wzigur2ioir3prv/wish/566546090 cindyskaterdancer https://padlet.com/cindyskaterdancer/8wzigur2ioir3prv/wish/566547056 After the Nebraska-Kansas Act was passed, many settlers moved to Kansas. Among those settlers were people of opposed and supported slavery. Pro-slavery supporters raided the home of the antislavery government. This outraged the North and was the start of a lot of violence in Kansas.]]> 2020-05-12 04:45:51 UTC https://padlet.com/cindyskaterdancer/8wzigur2ioir3prv/wish/566547056 cindyskaterdancer https://padlet.com/cindyskaterdancer/8wzigur2ioir3prv/wish/566550746 Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts suspected that the violence in Kansas was part of Senator Stephen Douglas's plan to make Kansas a slave state. Sumner made a speech about his suspicions and targeted many Southerners such as Senator Andrew P. Butler of South Carolina. 2 days later Butler's nephew attacked Sumner at Senate and beat him with a metal cane.]]> 2020-05-12 04:50:31 UTC https://padlet.com/cindyskaterdancer/8wzigur2ioir3prv/wish/566550746 cindyskaterdancer https://padlet.com/cindyskaterdancer/8wzigur2ioir3prv/wish/566555144 The Dred-Scott decision was a decision made by the Supreme Court. It stated that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and the Missouri Compromise itself was unconstitutional.]]> 2020-05-12 04:55:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cindyskaterdancer/8wzigur2ioir3prv/wish/566555144 cindyskaterdancer https://padlet.com/cindyskaterdancer/8wzigur2ioir3prv/wish/566557712 During the debate, Lincoln argued that slavery was a moral issue, not a legal one. Although Lincoln lost the election his debate left a lasting impression on the north, where support for abolition was gaining momentum.

]]> 2020-05-12 04:58:50 UTC https://padlet.com/cindyskaterdancer/8wzigur2ioir3prv/wish/566557712 cindyskaterdancer https://padlet.com/cindyskaterdancer/8wzigur2ioir3prv/wish/566560610 Lincoln won the election with just 40% of the votes, all coming from the North. This election caused southerners to realize that the South was now in the minority.]]> 2020-05-12 05:01:58 UTC https://padlet.com/cindyskaterdancer/8wzigur2ioir3prv/wish/566560610 cindyskaterdancer https://padlet.com/cindyskaterdancer/8wzigur2ioir3prv/wish/566563004 Because the South couldn't agree on a compromise they left the union. Since Lincoln didn't agree on slavery being allowed to spread to new territories he didn't agree with the compromise.]]> 2020-05-12 05:04:12 UTC https://padlet.com/cindyskaterdancer/8wzigur2ioir3prv/wish/566563004