https://padlet.com/polkityr/fbzcn9v34czbhyg Tyra en-us 2022-04-22 15:15:05 UTC 2025-05-05 15:00:50 UTC hello@padlet.com polkityr https://padlet.com/polkityr/fbzcn9v34czbhyg/wish/2154033824 Harriet Tubman helped thousands of slaves escape their enviornment.]]> 2022-04-22 19:12:04 UTC https://padlet.com/polkityr/fbzcn9v34czbhyg/wish/2154033824 polkityr https://padlet.com/polkityr/fbzcn9v34czbhyg/wish/2154038789 It was a compromise that settled between free states and slave states.]]> 2022-04-22 19:17:13 UTC https://padlet.com/polkityr/fbzcn9v34czbhyg/wish/2154038789 polkityr https://padlet.com/polkityr/fbzcn9v34czbhyg/wish/2154040128 A law that was made to prevent people from helping slaves escape.]]> 2022-04-22 19:18:24 UTC https://padlet.com/polkityr/fbzcn9v34czbhyg/wish/2154040128 polkityr https://padlet.com/polkityr/fbzcn9v34czbhyg/wish/2154041463 Cotton picking was a common job that slaves had to do.]]> 2022-04-22 19:19:41 UTC https://padlet.com/polkityr/fbzcn9v34czbhyg/wish/2154041463 polkityr https://padlet.com/polkityr/fbzcn9v34czbhyg/wish/2154044355 Literacy was not very common for women or slaves. Slaves who have learned how to read and write often got in trouble, beings there was a law against it.]]> 2022-04-22 19:22:44 UTC https://padlet.com/polkityr/fbzcn9v34czbhyg/wish/2154044355 polkityr https://padlet.com/polkityr/fbzcn9v34czbhyg/wish/2154047668 The Kansas-Nebraska Act lead to a proposal to build a railroad to help the slaves escape.]]> 2022-04-22 19:26:06 UTC https://padlet.com/polkityr/fbzcn9v34czbhyg/wish/2154047668 polkityr https://padlet.com/polkityr/fbzcn9v34czbhyg/wish/2154947624 While the United States was experiencing unprecedented expansion in the mid-nineteenth century, a core economic gap existed between the country's northern and southern areas.]]> 2022-04-24 00:54:24 UTC https://padlet.com/polkityr/fbzcn9v34czbhyg/wish/2154947624 polkityr https://padlet.com/polkityr/fbzcn9v34czbhyg/wish/2154948301 Manufacturing and industry were well-established in the north, while agriculture was primarily restricted to small-scale farms. The economy of the South, on the other hand, was centered on a large-scale farming system that relied on the labor of Black enslaved people to grow certain products, including cotton and tobacco.]]> 2022-04-24 00:56:40 UTC https://padlet.com/polkityr/fbzcn9v34czbhyg/wish/2154948301 polkityr https://padlet.com/polkityr/fbzcn9v34czbhyg/wish/2154948866 The short civil war in the United States known as Bleeding Kansas (1854–59) was waged by pro-slavery and anti-slavery activists for control of the new territory of Kansas under the idea of popular sovereignty.]]> 2022-04-24 00:58:31 UTC https://padlet.com/polkityr/fbzcn9v34czbhyg/wish/2154948866 polkityr https://padlet.com/polkityr/fbzcn9v34czbhyg/wish/2154949455 John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an attempt by abolitionist John Brown to start a slave uprising in Southern states by seizing the United States armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, from October 16 to 18, 1859.]]> 2022-04-24 01:00:29 UTC https://padlet.com/polkityr/fbzcn9v34czbhyg/wish/2154949455 polkityr https://padlet.com/polkityr/fbzcn9v34czbhyg/wish/2154949807 The election of Abraham Lincoln in November 1860 was the final straw, and within three months, seven southern states had declared independence from the United States: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.

]]> 2022-04-24 01:01:34 UTC https://padlet.com/polkityr/fbzcn9v34czbhyg/wish/2154949807 polkityr https://padlet.com/polkityr/fbzcn9v34czbhyg/wish/2154950906 The abolitionist movement was an organized attempt in the United States to abolish slavery.]]> 2022-04-24 01:05:11 UTC https://padlet.com/polkityr/fbzcn9v34czbhyg/wish/2154950906 polkityr https://padlet.com/polkityr/fbzcn9v34czbhyg/wish/2154951751 The Dred Scott decision was a March 6, 1857 opinion by the United States Supreme Court that living in a free state or territory did not entitle an enslaved individual, Dred Scott, to his freedom.]]> 2022-04-24 01:07:15 UTC https://padlet.com/polkityr/fbzcn9v34czbhyg/wish/2154951751