https://padlet.com/bluel5690/gnrm94giqk3j2zvu The American Civil War was fought between the southern states and the northern states. The southern states wanted to secede from the Union and become their own country, the Confederacy. The northern states wanted to preserve the Union and stay as one united country. This timeline illustrates some of the key events in the build-up to the outbreak of fighting in April 1861. en-us 2020-05-11 22:01:28 UTC 2020-05-12 04:11:14 UTC hello@padlet.com bluel5690 https://padlet.com/bluel5690/gnrm94giqk3j2zvu/wish/566207424 - Missouri is admitted as a slave state.
- The spread of slavery is prohibited north of the 36th parallel.]]> 2020-05-11 22:45:28 UTC https://padlet.com/bluel5690/gnrm94giqk3j2zvu/wish/566207424 bluel5690 https://padlet.com/bluel5690/gnrm94giqk3j2zvu/wish/566207928 - The Second Great Awakening, a religious revival, sees abolitionists doing the Lord's work to put an end to slavery.
- Congress enforces a gag rule to set aside indefinitely any antislavery petitions, including John Quincy Adams proposed amendment saying that no one could be born into slavery after 1845.]]> 2020-05-11 22:45:53 UTC https://padlet.com/bluel5690/gnrm94giqk3j2zvu/wish/566207928 bluel5690 https://padlet.com/bluel5690/gnrm94giqk3j2zvu/wish/566212244 - Fugitives from slavery escape with the help of the Underground Railroad and sympathetic Northerners.
- Harriet Tubman is a "conductor" on the railroad who leads many slaves to freedom in the Northern states and Canada.]]> 2020-05-11 22:48:54 UTC https://padlet.com/bluel5690/gnrm94giqk3j2zvu/wish/566212244 bluel5690 https://padlet.com/bluel5690/gnrm94giqk3j2zvu/wish/566212720 - California is admitted into the Union as a free state.
- New Mexico and Utah territories can decide for themselves whether they are slave or free states.
- Slave markets are banned in Washington, D.C..
- The Fugitive Slave Act is passed.]]> 2020-05-11 22:49:19 UTC https://padlet.com/bluel5690/gnrm94giqk3j2zvu/wish/566212720 bluel5690 https://padlet.com/bluel5690/gnrm94giqk3j2zvu/wish/566216566 - Anyone helping a slave escape will be severely punished.
- Slaves found anywhere in the country are returned to his/her master.]]> 2020-05-11 22:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/bluel5690/gnrm94giqk3j2zvu/wish/566216566 bluel5690 https://padlet.com/bluel5690/gnrm94giqk3j2zvu/wish/566217029 - When these territories are added to the Union, popular vote decides their status as a slave or free state.
- Pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters rush to these states to influence the vote which leads to violence.]]> 2020-05-11 22:53:04 UTC https://padlet.com/bluel5690/gnrm94giqk3j2zvu/wish/566217029 bluel5690 https://padlet.com/bluel5690/gnrm94giqk3j2zvu/wish/566217546 - During a raid on Lawrence, Kansas, the home of the antislavery government, a hotel  is burned, homes are looted, and two abolitionist newspapers' printing presses are destroyed.
- In retaliation, abolitionist John Brown and seven followers murder five men in the pro-slavery town of Pottawatomie, Kansas.]]> 2020-05-11 22:53:30 UTC https://padlet.com/bluel5690/gnrm94giqk3j2zvu/wish/566217546 bluel5690 https://padlet.com/bluel5690/gnrm94giqk3j2zvu/wish/566217861 - Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts gives a speech, "The Crime Against Kansas" that enrages Southerners.
- South Carolina representative, Preston Brooks, attacks Sumner in the Senate, beating him unconscious with a metal-tipped cane. ]]> 2020-05-11 22:53:48 UTC https://padlet.com/bluel5690/gnrm94giqk3j2zvu/wish/566217861 bluel5690 https://padlet.com/bluel5690/gnrm94giqk3j2zvu/wish/566218307 - Dred Scott, a slave moves with his master to Illinois, a free state. When his master dies, Scott declares he's free but his master's widow disagrees.
- The case goes all the way to the Supreme Court but Scott loses. The court's ruling makes it clear that slaves are treated as property.]]> 2020-05-11 22:54:10 UTC https://padlet.com/bluel5690/gnrm94giqk3j2zvu/wish/566218307 bluel5690 https://padlet.com/bluel5690/gnrm94giqk3j2zvu/wish/566218667 - Lincoln runs against Senator Stephen Douglas for his Illinois Senate seat. Lincoln says that slavery is a moral issue, not a legal one.
- Lincoln loses the election, but the debates raise his profile, making him a national figure.]]> 2020-05-11 22:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/bluel5690/gnrm94giqk3j2zvu/wish/566218667 bluel5690 https://padlet.com/bluel5690/gnrm94giqk3j2zvu/wish/566219045 - Republicans back Lincoln. Northern Democrats support Stephen Douglas. Southern Democrats back John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky. Lincoln receives 40% of the vote, all cast in Northern states, winning the election.
-  With this victory, the South sees that they are in the minority and that Congress will try to abolish slavery.]]> 2020-05-11 22:54:47 UTC https://padlet.com/bluel5690/gnrm94giqk3j2zvu/wish/566219045 bluel5690 https://padlet.com/bluel5690/gnrm94giqk3j2zvu/wish/566219902 - South Carolina is the first state to leave the Union. Within a few months, several other states including Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana follow, calling themselves the Confederate States of America.
- The South's secession triggers the outbreak of fighting.]]> 2020-05-11 22:55:31 UTC https://padlet.com/bluel5690/gnrm94giqk3j2zvu/wish/566219902