The Gathering Storm - By: Seth Raffee by Seth Raffee https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7 During the 19th century America was going through termoil. People were split based on their beliefs on slavery. This time period was known as the Gathering Storm, or the events that led up to the Civil War en-us 2018-04-02 15:51:48 UTC 2018-04-20 19:27:40 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Bigthunderstorm.png 1.The Missouri Compromise of 1820 raffees0715 https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/247850785 The Missouri Compromise of 1820 settled a conflict between Congress and Missouri. The compromise allowed Maine to be admitted to the Union as a free state, and Missouri to be admitted a a slave state.

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]]> 2018-04-02 16:09:16 UTC https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/247850785 2. The Missouri Compromise Unravels raffees0715 https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/248196591 After the Missouri Compromise A "Gag Rule" was created. This idea was presented by John Q. Adams, it proposed that no one born after 1845 could be born into slavery.

Source:https://newseumed.org/casestudy/1836-anti-slavery-talk-gagged-in-congress/]]> 2018-04-03 16:28:52 UTC https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/248196591 3. Fugitive Slaves raffees0715 https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/248201256 After Nat turner's rebellion many slaves continued to rebel by running away to freedom. To prevent this congress passed the fugitive slave act which allowed slave owners to recapture their property.

Source:http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fugitive-slave-acts]]> 2018-04-03 16:38:27 UTC https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/248201256 4. Slavery in the Territories raffees0715 https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/248204626 After the Mexican-American War, any land that was aquired as a result could not have forced labor or slavery. This was called the Wilmot Proviso, many Southerners  opposed this, therefor it was rejected by the Senate.

Source:http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/chron/civilwarnotes/wilmot.html]]> 2018-04-03 16:46:25 UTC https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/248204626 5. Statehood in California raffees0715 https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/248209801 After the Mexican-American War Congress debated what to do about slavery in the new land acquired from Mexico. Southerners in Congress wanted California open to slavery, Northerners wanted the opposite. In the end California was admitted to the Union as a Free state.]]> 2018-04-03 16:58:29 UTC https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/248209801 6. The Compromise of 1850 raffees0715 https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/253254891 The Compromise of 1850 was an idea made to stop the deadlock over California. Henry Clay, a senator of Kentucky, proposed the idea. Clay made the compromise so that it would please the North and the South. For Northerners is would allow California to be admitted to the Union as a free state. To please the Southerners he made it so the New Mexico and Utah territories could decide other to be a free state or slave state. The Compromise was passed after nine months in congress.]]> 2018-04-19 02:07:29 UTC https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/253254891 7. The Fugitive Slave Act raffees0715 https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/253256602 The Fugitive Slave Act was a law made in the 1850's that attempted to capture slaves that fled to the North. The Act was a failed attempt due to the North opposing it. The law only captured a fraction of the runaway slaves.]]> 2018-04-19 02:17:38 UTC https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/253256602 8. The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854 raffees0715 https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/253257897 The Kansas-Nebraska Act was an act that created two new territories Nebraska and Kansas. The act also abolished the Missouri Compromise and made it so the people vote on wether to allow slavery or not to allow slavery. ]]> 2018-04-19 02:25:05 UTC https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/253257897 9. Bloodshed in Kansas raffees0715 https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/253259667 After the Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854 pro slavery and non slavery settlers rushed into Kansas. The opposition didn't go to well and ended up with bloodshed.]]> 2018-04-19 02:36:52 UTC https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/253259667 10. Violence in Congress raffees0715 https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/253260338 The bloodshed in Kansas was followed to Congress. Preston Brooks, a South Carolina Senator Beat Charles Sumner, the senator of Massachusetts.]]> 2018-04-19 02:41:29 UTC https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/253260338 11. The Dred Scott Decision raffees0715 https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/253261078 Dred Scott a slave from Missouri was taken to Wisconsin with his owner. After his stay in WI he felt like a free man. He then fought for freedom at the Supreme Court.]]> 2018-04-19 02:45:37 UTC https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/253261078 12. Lincoln-Douglas Debates raffees0715 https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/253261827 When President Abraham Lincoln was running for senate he challenged his running mate to a debate on slavery. The debate was about slavery and wether it was moral or not.]]> 2018-04-19 02:49:42 UTC https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/253261827 13. John Brown's Raid raffees0715 https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/253262260 John Brown was an abolitionist who went to the extreme. He concluded that the only way to end slavery was with bloodshed, so he went on a massacre killing people who supported slavery.]]> 2018-04-19 02:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/253262260 14. Abraham Lincoln is elected President raffees0715 https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/253262584 When Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election white Southerners feared that slavery would be abolished. They feared this now because Northerners had a political advantage.]]> 2018-04-19 02:55:15 UTC https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/253262584 15. The South secedes from the Union raffees0715 https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/253262882 The weeks following President Lincoln's win in the election lots of talk was going on about the South seceding form the Union. In December of 1860 the rumors became a reality, South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union.]]> 2018-04-19 02:57:39 UTC https://padlet.com/raffees0715/9qkzpf5t4gw7/wish/253262882