https://padlet.com/jimendan/a5ainp0m5welupwy en-us 2023-04-24 13:18:17 UTC 2023-04-27 13:37:00 UTC hello@padlet.com jimendan https://padlet.com/jimendan/a5ainp0m5welupwy/wish/2565723959 David Wilmot offered the Wilmot Proviso, a document stating that “neither slav-ery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of [the] territory.”]]> 2023-04-24 13:41:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jimendan/a5ainp0m5welupwy/wish/2565723959 jimendan https://padlet.com/jimendan/a5ainp0m5welupwy/wish/2565725048 part one free and one enslaved. Some leaders, including Senator Lewis Cass of Michigan, encouraged popular sovereignty, the idea that political power belongs to the peo-ple, who should decide on banning or allowing slavery.]]> 2023-04-24 13:41:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jimendan/a5ainp0m5welupwy/wish/2565725048 jimendan https://padlet.com/jimendan/a5ainp0m5welupwy/wish/2565729349 the Wilmot Proviso spurred a debate that showed growing sectionalism , or favoring the interests of one section or region over the interests of the entire country.]]> 2023-04-24 13:44:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jimendan/a5ainp0m5welupwy/wish/2565729349 jimendan https://padlet.com/jimendan/a5ainp0m5welupwy/wish/2565771912 the Free-Soil Party, which supported the Wilmot Proviso.]]> 2023-04-24 14:10:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jimendan/a5ainp0m5welupwy/wish/2565771912 jimendan https://padlet.com/jimendan/a5ainp0m5welupwy/wish/2565775545 A compromise was enacted that year and seemed to settle most disputes between free and slave states. It achieved the majority of Clay’s propos-als. With the Compromise of 1850, California was able to enter the Union]]> 2023-04-24 14:12:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jimendan/a5ainp0m5welupwy/wish/2565775545 jimendan https://padlet.com/jimendan/a5ainp0m5welupwy/wish/2565777867 The newly passed Fugitive Slave Act made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas.]]> 2023-04-24 14:14:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jimendan/a5ainp0m5welupwy/wish/2565777867 jimendan https://padlet.com/jimendan/a5ainp0m5welupwy/wish/2565782145 Fiction also informed people about the evils of slavery. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe,]]> 2023-04-24 14:16:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jimendan/a5ainp0m5welupwy/wish/2565782145 jimendan https://padlet.com/jimendan/a5ainp0m5welupwy/wish/2565783648 1852. It became clear that none of them would win a majority of votes. Frustrated delegates at the Democratic National Convention turned to Franklin Pierce]]> 2023-04-24 14:17:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jimendan/a5ainp0m5welupwy/wish/2565783648 jimendan https://padlet.com/jimendan/a5ainp0m5welupwy/wish/2565785554 In January 1854 Douglas introduced what became the Kansas-Nebraska Act ,]]> 2023-04-24 14:18:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jimendan/a5ainp0m5welupwy/wish/2565785554 jimendan https://padlet.com/jimendan/a5ainp0m5welupwy/wish/2565789489 .” On the night of May 24, 1856, along Pottawatomie Creek, Brown and his men killed five pro-slavery men in Kansas in what became known as the Pottawatomie Massacre .]]> 2023-04-24 14:21:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jimendan/a5ainp0m5welupwy/wish/2565789489 jimendan https://padlet.com/jimendan/a5ainp0m5welupwy/wish/2565790936 Congress also reacted to the violence of the Sack of Lawrence. Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts criticized pro-slavery people in Kansas and personally insulted Andrew Pickens Butler, a pro-slavery senator from South Carolina.]]> 2023-04-24 14:22:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jimendan/a5ainp0m5welupwy/wish/2565790936 jimendan https://padlet.com/jimendan/a5ainp0m5welupwy/wish/2565794604 They nominated James Buchanan of Pennsylvania. Buchanan had a great deal of political experience as Polk’s secretary of state.]]> 2023-04-24 14:24:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jimendan/a5ainp0m5welupwy/wish/2565794604 jimendan https://padlet.com/jimendan/a5ainp0m5welupwy/wish/2565796232 At their first nominating convention, the Republicans chose explorer John C. Frémont as their candidate.]]> 2023-04-24 14:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jimendan/a5ainp0m5welupwy/wish/2565796232