https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed Made with History Facts en-us 2018-04-27 13:57:12 UTC 2023-05-15 17:53:59 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Removelove.png ryleigh_ross https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/257692240 Congress's power to ban slavery in the nations capital was questioned, so in 1836, Congress voted to set aside indefinitely all slavery petitions. The bill  Wilmot Proviso, was a proposal made to prohibit slavery in the territory added to the United states as a result of the Mexican-American War, it was passed by the house but rejected by the senate. ]]> 2018-05-03 14:57:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/257692240 ryleigh_ross https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/257692553   The Nat Turner's rebellion was one of the largest slave revolts, but slaves continued to rebel by running away to the North to freedom. Slaveholders wanted Congress to pass a fugitive slave law to help the recapture their property. ]]> 2018-05-03 14:57:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/257692553 ryleigh_ross https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/257692606 David Wilmot added an amendment known as the Wilmot Proviso bill, which was a proposal that prohibited slavery in the territory added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War. Southerners in congress opposed Wilmot's amendment and thought that Congress had no right to decide where slave holders could take their property. ]]> 2018-05-03 14:57:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/257692606 ryleigh_ross https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/257692640 Southerners wanted all of the Mexican Cession open to slavery, but Northerners wanted all of it closed. Southerners proposed a bill that would extend the Missouri Compromise line all the way to the Pacific and slavery would be banned north of that line and allowed south of it. ]]> 2018-05-03 14:58:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/257692640 ryleigh_ross https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/257693970 This was an agreement that Congress made  to admit Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Congress made a line across the Louisiana Purchase at latitude 36 30 and any slavery was banned North of this line, but it was allowed South of the line. ]]> 2018-05-03 15:00:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/257693970 ryleigh_ross https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/258030992 A person arrested as a runaway slave had no legal rights and people that helped them could be jailed. This provision would force many Northerners to become slave catchers. Northerners refusal to support the act made enforcement of the act almost impossible. ]]> 2018-05-04 13:49:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/258030992 ryleigh_ross https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/258031033 The North was pleased, because California was admitted as a free state to the union, and the South was pleased, because New Mexico and Utah were able to decide whether or not to be slave states. Plus, slave trading ended in Washington D.C., but they could keep their slaves, and his plan called for passage of a stronger fugitive slave law. Southerners remained wary of the compromise and it lead to the demise of one of the mean political parties, The Whig Party, because members had moral objections to slavery. The compromise satisfied almost no one and the debate grew louder each year. ]]> 2018-05-04 13:49:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/258031033 ryleigh_ross https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/258031058 This act was passed in 1854 and created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to determine whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories. Douglass called this policy popular sovereignty or rule by people and the North still thought slavery would take over the states. ]]> 2018-05-04 13:49:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/258031058 ryleigh_ross https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/258031083 After the act was passed, settlers poured into Kansas, most were peaceful farmers looking for good farmland, but some of them moved there to either support or oppose slavery. Abolitionists in the North raised money to buy weapons to send to anitislavery settlers so that slavery could end once and for all. ]]> 2018-05-04 13:49:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/258031083 ryleigh_ross https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/258031117 Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner with his cane until he was unconscious. Southerners applauded Brooks for defending the honor of his family and the South, though the country became very divided because of the violence that was spreading. ]]> 2018-05-04 13:49:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/258031117 ryleigh_ross https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/258031151 This was a Supreme Court decision that in 1857 said that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. Dred Scott argued that his stay in Wisconsin made him a free man but the court decided that he could not sue because he was not a citizen. ]]> 2018-05-04 13:49:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/258031151 ryleigh_ross https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/258031193 This was a series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglass who were candidates in the Illinois race for U.S. senator, which slavery was the main issues. Stephen Douglass was helped in winning the race, the debates were widely reported and helped make Lincoln a national figure, and it became a moral issue was the results of the Lincoln-Douglass Debates. ]]> 2018-05-04 13:49:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/258031193 ryleigh_ross https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/258031217 He wanted to use the weapons to arm the slaves to rebel and end slavery for good. Southern blood would be spilled if a slave rebellion began and the Northerners viewed Brown as a hero leaving white Southerners uneasy. ]]> 2018-05-04 13:49:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/258031217 ryleigh_ross https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/258031252 He won with 40% of the votes, all casted in the North and in 10 southern states he wasn't even on the ballet. The South no longer had the power to shape national events or polices and they feared that Congress would try to abolish slavery. ]]> 2018-05-04 13:50:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/258031252 ryleigh_ross https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/258031279 They voted to succeed from the Union and those states joined together as the Confederate States of America. Lincoln said that secession was both wrong and unconstitutional. ]]> 2018-05-04 13:50:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ryleigh_ross/dtn4potj78ed/wish/258031279