https://padlet.com/johnsonp1833/ceqz62ulg759 en-us 2018-04-02 15:51:42 UTC 2025-10-26 01:46:43 UTC hello@padlet.com johnsonp1833 https://padlet.com/johnsonp1833/ceqz62ulg759/wish/247851747 In the Missouri Compromise of 1820, Missouri was entered into the union as a slave state and Maine was entered into the union as a free state. They did it this way so that the amount of free and slave states remained the same. Although Missouri was North of the border where slavery was banned, Congress allowed it to be a slave state to keep the balance of representation in congress.]]> 2018-04-02 16:12:08 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonp1833/ceqz62ulg759/wish/247851747 johnsonp1833 https://padlet.com/johnsonp1833/ceqz62ulg759/wish/248193707 The Second Great Awakening pushed the issue of slavery into the eyes of the public again. Abolitionists flooded Congress with antislavery petitions, and Congress decided to create a "gag rule", which meant that they set aside any abolitionists petitions indefinitely. This hardly silenced the abolitionists, they took to the books, newspapers, and public meetings, the southern whites started to fear the slaves would see the articles in the newspapers and offered rewards to people who stopped them. ]]> 2018-04-03 16:23:21 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonp1833/ceqz62ulg759/wish/248193707