https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c The road leading up to the South's secession from the Union. en-us 2018-04-27 13:59:56 UTC 2023-01-23 06:32:17 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Templeball.png logan_smalley https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256017342 An agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state. Also created an imaginary line in which any future state north of the line would be a free state and south of the line would be a slave state. ]]> 2018-04-27 14:03:46 UTC https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256017342 logan_smalley https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256019683 The Missouri Compromise worked for a few years, but with the Second Great Awakening happening, many people saw slavery as a very outdated and immoral practice. ]]> 2018-04-27 14:08:25 UTC https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256019683 logan_smalley https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256025059 Some Northerners worked to free slaves from their Southern captors, but Congress passed a law requiring slaves to be returned to their owners even if they were in the North. ]]> 2018-04-27 14:20:13 UTC https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256025059 logan_smalley https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256026870 In territories that were not yet states, like the recently acquired Texas and other Mexican territories . ]]> 2018-04-27 14:24:06 UTC https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256026870 logan_smalley https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256029765 In 1849, California applied to enter the Union as a free state. The Northerners in Congress accepted them with open arms, while the Southerners rejected them, saying it would upset the balance between slave and free states. ]]> 2018-04-27 14:29:50 UTC https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256029765 logan_smalley https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256032772 When California applies for statehood as a free state, some Southerners threaten to secede. Congress resolves the crisis by redefining where slavery is permitted in the territories and enacting a stronger fugitive slave law. ]]> 2018-04-27 14:35:45 UTC https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256032772 logan_smalley https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256513423 When the Compromise of 1850 failed, the South wanted the right to reclaim their "property." But at the same time the North didn't want to do it for them. ]]> 2018-04-30 13:54:28 UTC https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256513423 logan_smalley https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256515289 This act opens up the Great Plains to settlement and nullifies the Missouri Compromise by allowing the territory to choose whether to allow slavery. Eventually, it results in violence throughout Kansas and antislavery and pro-slavery settlers battle for control of the territory.]]> 2018-04-30 13:57:31 UTC https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256515289 logan_smalley https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256518036 Both pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers attempted to inhabit Kansas, so, things turned violent. People started fighting. It was basically a small scale civil war. ]]> 2018-04-30 14:02:20 UTC https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256518036 logan_smalley https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256524708 After making a speech calling out fellow senator Andrew P. Butler of South Carolina, Charles Sumner was beaten with a metal tipped cane until it broke in half by a relative of Butler and House member Preston Brooks.]]> 2018-04-30 14:13:40 UTC https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256524708 logan_smalley https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256527648 a Supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. ]]> 2018-04-30 14:18:51 UTC https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256527648 logan_smalley https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256530187 a series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, who were candidates in the Illinois race for U.S. Senator, in which slavery was the main issue. ]]> 2018-04-30 14:23:17 UTC https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256530187 logan_smalley https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256531711 A group of slaves recruited by John Brown was armed with weapons from the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia and went around murdering slave-owning families. ]]> 2018-04-30 14:25:32 UTC https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256531711 logan_smalley https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256533829 Lincoln's presidential victory showed the South that they were the minority, and could no longer shape national events or policies. ]]> 2018-04-30 14:29:33 UTC https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256533829 logan_smalley https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256534899 With Lincoln's victory, delegates from the South met to discuss secession. On December 20th, 1860, South Carolina decided to leave the Union, with six more states following shortly after, becoming the Confederate States of America. ]]> 2018-04-30 14:31:50 UTC https://padlet.com/logan_smalley/fhoet0y8g55c/wish/256534899