https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8 Made with a taste for adventure en-us 2018-04-27 13:10:28 UTC 2025-04-11 16:19:52 UTC hello@padlet.com adrian_cox https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/255999398 Maine is a free state and Missouri is entered as a Slave State. ]]> 2018-04-27 13:28:07 UTC https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/255999398 adrian_cox https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/256001100 Promised that the lord would bless those who did the lord work aka. abolition of slavery ]]> 2018-04-27 13:31:37 UTC https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/256001100 adrian_cox https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/256005441 Run away slaves.]]> 2018-04-27 13:39:56 UTC https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/256005441 adrian_cox https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/256494026 was an agreement between the pro- and anti-slavery factions regulating slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery in new states north of the border of the Arkansas territory, excluding Missouri.]]> 2018-04-30 13:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/256494026 adrian_cox https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/256502128 September 9, 1850]]> 2018-04-30 13:34:11 UTC https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/256502128 adrian_cox https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/256503885 introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.]]> 2018-04-30 13:37:25 UTC https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/256503885 adrian_cox https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/257221906 was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. ... Abolitionists nicknamed it the "Bloodhound Law" for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves.]]> 2018-05-02 13:10:30 UTC https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/257221906 adrian_cox https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/257223345 Stephen Douglas, “Nebraska Territory,” January 30, 1854: Stephen Douglas, “Nebraska Territory,” January 30, 1854: [Page 275] Upon the other point--that pertaining to the question of slavery in the Territories--it was the intention of the committee to be equally explicit.]]> 2018-05-02 13:13:48 UTC https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/257223345 adrian_cox https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/257224612 Bleeding Kansas. Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas]]> 2018-05-02 13:16:26 UTC https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/257224612 adrian_cox https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/257226426 The most infamous floor brawl in the history of the U.S. House of Representatives erupted as Members debated the Kansas Territory’s pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution late into the night of February 5-6. Shortly before 2 a.m., Pennsylvania Republican Galusha Grow and South Carolina Democrat Laurence Keitt exchanged insults, then blows. “In an instant the House was in the greatest possible confusion,”]]> 2018-05-02 13:20:09 UTC https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/257226426 adrian_cox https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/257227724 Sandford, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States.]]> 2018-05-02 13:22:28 UTC https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/257227724 adrian_cox https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/257229599 The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. ]]> 2018-05-02 13:25:37 UTC https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/257229599 adrian_cox https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/257231561 John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.]]> 2018-05-02 13:28:39 UTC https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/257231561 adrian_cox https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/257233039 On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Douglas, Breckenridge, and Bell. He was the first president from the Republican Party.]]> 2018-05-02 13:31:17 UTC https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/257233039 adrian_cox https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/257234660 The force of events moved very quickly upon the election of Lincoln. South Carolina acted first, calling for a convention to secede from the Union. State by state, conventions were held, and the Confederacy was formed. Within three months of Lincoln's election, seven states had seceded from the Union.]]> 2018-05-02 13:34:00 UTC https://padlet.com/adrian_cox/giiqpkyzs6a8/wish/257234660