https://padlet.com/huffstutterr5204/g0rm1y088ypkh40i Timeline, also known as the assignment "The Gathering Storm" en-us 2020-05-09 21:40:42 UTC 2020-05-10 01:19:42 UTC hello@padlet.com http://interactive.wbez.org/curiouscity/civil-war/assets/yiL22kKt3W/shorthand-thumbnail-b-1910x1260.jpeg huffstutterr5204 https://padlet.com/huffstutterr5204/g0rm1y088ypkh40i/wish/561936482 The Missouri Compromise made a line through the United States where all territories above that line would be free states and all territories below that line would be slave states. This angered the North because half of future states would be slave states, and this angered the South because only half of future states would be slave states.]]> 2020-05-09 22:01:03 UTC https://padlet.com/huffstutterr5204/g0rm1y088ypkh40i/wish/561936482 huffstutterr5204 https://padlet.com/huffstutterr5204/g0rm1y088ypkh40i/wish/561953002 Congress silenced all anti-slavery petitions, but abolitionists continued to publish their beliefs in newspapers and books. Then, when California applied for statehood as a free state, Northerners wanted to accept California into the union, but Southerners didn't want to allow another free state to enter the union.]]> 2020-05-09 22:28:26 UTC https://padlet.com/huffstutterr5204/g0rm1y088ypkh40i/wish/561953002 huffstutterr5204 https://padlet.com/huffstutterr5204/g0rm1y088ypkh40i/wish/561973446 Slaves continued to rebel against their masters by running away, and these slaves were often sheltered by Northerners. Slaveholders wanted Congress to pass a law that would return their escaped slaves to them.]]> 2020-05-09 23:08:04 UTC https://padlet.com/huffstutterr5204/g0rm1y088ypkh40i/wish/561973446 huffstutterr5204 https://padlet.com/huffstutterr5204/g0rm1y088ypkh40i/wish/561977757 This compromise was introduced with the intention of pleasing both the North and the South so that the union would stay together. The union included these terms: California would be admitted to the union as a free state, the New Mexico and Utah territories would decide whether or not to allow slavery, the slave trade in Washington D.C. would be ended, and a strong fugitive slave law would be passed. After much debate in Congress, the compromise was passed. Meant to please everyone, almost no one was pleased by the compromise, and it failed spectacularly.]]> 2020-05-09 23:17:05 UTC https://padlet.com/huffstutterr5204/g0rm1y088ypkh40i/wish/561977757 huffstutterr5204 https://padlet.com/huffstutterr5204/g0rm1y088ypkh40i/wish/561984479 The Northerners were unhappy with the Fugitive Slave Act, so they refused to enforce it, and they instead continued to hide slaves and they harassed slave hunters until the hunters left town. The South was angry because the act was not enforced.]]> 2020-05-09 23:32:35 UTC https://padlet.com/huffstutterr5204/g0rm1y088ypkh40i/wish/561984479 huffstutterr5204 https://padlet.com/huffstutterr5204/g0rm1y088ypkh40i/wish/561987470 This act made two new territories, Nebraska and Kansas. It would be up to the settlers in these territories to decide if they wanted to allow slavery, thus abolished the Missouri Compromise. This act outraged the North, ]]> 2020-05-09 23:39:43 UTC https://padlet.com/huffstutterr5204/g0rm1y088ypkh40i/wish/561987470 huffstutterr5204 https://padlet.com/huffstutterr5204/g0rm1y088ypkh40i/wish/561992122 After Kansas was established, settlers started pouring in, many were just there for the farmland, but some moved there either to support or oppose slavery. Some pro-slavery groups burnt and looted buildings in Kansas, so in response, anti-slavery groups attacked and killed 5 supporters of slavery.]]> 2020-05-09 23:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/huffstutterr5204/g0rm1y088ypkh40i/wish/561992122 huffstutterr5204 https://padlet.com/huffstutterr5204/g0rm1y088ypkh40i/wish/561994365 Senator Charles Sumner was outraged by the events in Kansas, and made a speech about the horrible influence of slavery on Kansas. Northerners supported his speech, while an angry Southern Senator by the name of Preston Brooks attacked Sumner, beating him with his metal tipped cane until Sumner was bloody and unconscious.]]> 2020-05-09 23:55:55 UTC https://padlet.com/huffstutterr5204/g0rm1y088ypkh40i/wish/561994365 huffstutterr5204 https://padlet.com/huffstutterr5204/g0rm1y088ypkh40i/wish/561997050 A slave named Dred Scott took his case to court, saying that because his owner took him to Wisconsin-a free state-he was now a free man. The court decided that he could not sue for his freedom because he wasn't a citizen of the United States-and he never would be because no African American, slave or no, could ever become a citizen. The court also decided that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional, and that Congress has a responsibility to protect the property rights of slaveholders. Southerners were delighted by these decisions, while Northerners were horrified.]]> 2020-05-10 00:03:08 UTC https://padlet.com/huffstutterr5204/g0rm1y088ypkh40i/wish/561997050 huffstutterr5204 https://padlet.com/huffstutterr5204/g0rm1y088ypkh40i/wish/562005675 During the race for Senator, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas debated over slavery. Douglas thought the Dred-Scott decision put the issue of slavery to rest. Lincoln argued that slavery was a moral issue, not a legal one. Even though Lincoln lost the race, the debates were widely reported, and they brought the moral issue of slavery into light, and showed that compromises over slavery were near impossible.]]> 2020-05-10 00:24:46 UTC https://padlet.com/huffstutterr5204/g0rm1y088ypkh40i/wish/562005675 huffstutterr5204 https://padlet.com/huffstutterr5204/g0rm1y088ypkh40i/wish/562012437 Abraham Lincoln got elected President with no Southern votes-he wasn't even on the ballot in 10 Southern States. The South knew they were now in the minority, and could no longer shape national decisions on slavery. They feared that Congress would try to outlaw slavery knowing the South could do nothing about it.]]> 2020-05-10 00:42:38 UTC https://padlet.com/huffstutterr5204/g0rm1y088ypkh40i/wish/562012437 huffstutterr5204 https://padlet.com/huffstutterr5204/g0rm1y088ypkh40i/wish/562019538 In Charleston, South Carolina delegates voted to leave the union on December 20, 1860. Six more states soon followed South Carolina's lead, and in February 1861, they formed the Confederate States of America. Lincoln became President of a broken union, and civil war was inevitable.]]> 2020-05-10 01:03:18 UTC https://padlet.com/huffstutterr5204/g0rm1y088ypkh40i/wish/562019538