https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj History Study Guide for Unit 7 en-us 2018-04-04 16:09:59 UTC 2025-06-11 13:41:22 UTC hello@padlet.com riminie0537 https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/248569128 Congress stugled to find a compromise to both the North and the South's demands. In the end they agreed in admitting "Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state. In this way, it maintained the balance of power between slave and free states."

Source: www.compromise-of-1850.org "1820 Missouri Compromise"]]> 2018-04-04 16:20:21 UTC https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/248569128 riminie0537 https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/248577278 Congress had put a temporary stop to slavery with the Missouri Compromise but many abolitionits flooded Congress and Congress created a rule where you were not able to talk about Anti-Slavery in Congress. This was called the "Gag Rule'" by abolitionists because it gagged all talk about ending slavery

Source: http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu  "Georgia Studies Images"]]> 2018-04-04 16:37:59 UTC https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/248577278 riminie0537 https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/248582105 Many slaves were escaping from Plantations to the North and Canada in search of freedom. Southern salve owners though of the Northerners as bank robbers because they had the salves that the Southern slave owner payed for.

Source "www.history.com" Fugitive Slave Act"]]> 2018-04-04 16:48:35 UTC https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/248582105 riminie0537 https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/253228983 In 1846 David Wilmot created the Wilmot Proviso which stated that during the Mexican-American "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist." Since the southerners were so outraged over this decision the Wilmost Proviso was rejected by the Senate.

Source "https://etc.usf.edu/maps/" Slavery in the States]]> 2018-04-18 23:16:02 UTC https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/253228983 riminie0537 https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/253232378 In late 1849 California applied to become a free state, but would upset the balance of free and slave states . Northerners wanted California to be a free state and Southerners wanted it to be a slave state.

Source "https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=23856" California Admission]]> 2018-04-18 23:44:19 UTC https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/253232378 riminie0537 https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/253244722 In 1850 Henry Clay had come up with a plan do end the problems with Statehood in California. The compromise would add California as a free state and would allow Utah and New Mexico do decide whether or not they will allow slavery. This compromise allows both slave states and free states to be happy. After 9 months the compromise is accepted, but many southerners despised it.

Source: "https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/" Compromise of 1850]]> 2018-04-19 01:05:47 UTC https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/253244722 riminie0537 https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/253250548 The Fugitive Slave Act required Northerners to report escaped slaves. Northerners were upset with this because they did not want to enforce this and Southerners were upset because they weren't sure if the slaves would be returned.

Source: "https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/" The Fugitive Slave Act]]> 2018-04-19 01:38:35 UTC https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/253250548 riminie0537 https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/253251355 The Nebraska-Kansas Act created two new territories in the North, Nebraska and Kansas. It depended on the citizens who moved there to decide whether or not to allow slavery.

Source: "http://www.abraham-lincoln-history.org/debates-on-the-kansas-nebraska-act/"]]> 2018-04-19 01:44:16 UTC https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/253251355 riminie0537 https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/253251872 Many Northerners and Southerners sent armed citizens to Kansas to try to prevent/spread slave. The Northerners and Southerns both battled and conducted raids so they could take control of the territory.

Source: "https://www.nps.gov/teachers/classrooms/ks-sparks-of-war.htm" Bleeding Kansas]]> 2018-04-19 01:48:30 UTC https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/253251872 riminie0537 https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/253252415 Charles Sunmer of Massachusetts made a speech about Crimes Against Kansas in Congress. After his speech many praised him but Preston Books  beat him with his cane until the cane broke.

Source: "https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/image/SumnerCaning.htm" ]]> 2018-04-19 01:52:09 UTC https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/253252415 riminie0537 https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/253268085 Dred Scott was a slave that had traveled through a no slavery area and was sueing the Supreme Court because he was denied his freedom. The Supreme Court ruled that because he was African-America, and therefore was not a citizen so he couldn't sue.

Source: "https://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/mar6/dred-scott-decision/" The Dred Scott Decison]]> 2018-04-19 03:41:17 UTC https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/253268085 riminie0537 https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/253274299 When running for president Abraham Lincoln had to debate against Douglas. In the debates Douglas argued that the Dred-Scott Decision fixed slavery's problems, but Lincoln argued that slavery was a moral issue and the United States could not stay divided.

Source: "http://www.american-historama.org/1860-1865-civil-war-era/lincoln-douglas-debates.htm"]]> 2018-04-19 04:25:38 UTC https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/253274299 riminie0537 https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/253619392 John Brown, who couldn't wait for congress to stop slavery, decided to raid a weapon storage unit in the South. He intended to arm the slaves and lead a rebellion but he and his soldiers were captured and the southerners were scared of what else was to come.

Source: "http://www.blackpast.org/aaw/john-brown-s-christmas-raid-missouri-1858"]]> 2018-04-19 19:58:27 UTC https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/253619392 riminie0537 https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/253622336 Since the North had more people than the South Abraham Lincoln was elected as president and the South feared the abolishment of slavery.

Source: "https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2008/07/23/abraham-lincoln-and-the-election-of-1860]]> 2018-04-19 20:08:12 UTC https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/253622336 riminie0537 https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/253629992 After Lincoln was elected many officials were searching for a compromise to keep the North and the South together. However, the south seceded from the Union and the became the Confederate States of America.

Source: "http://www.ushistory.org/us/32e.asp" The South Secedes.]]> 2018-04-19 20:33:46 UTC https://padlet.com/riminie0537/cccv9eh975jj/wish/253629992