https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b Made with a warm hug en-us 2018-04-27 13:00:13 UTC 2018-05-03 18:48:21 UTC hello@padlet.com madison_young4 https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/255986479 2018-04-27 13:00:53 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/255986479 madison_young4 https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/255991274   in 1820,  Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state. ]]> 2018-04-27 13:11:30 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/255991274 madison_young4 https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/256002071 Some men who voted in the North were called traitors and slave holders deeply resented the ban on slavery in territories that might become states.]]> 2018-04-27 13:33:39 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/256002071 madison_young4 https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/256006253 Fugitives from slavery were often helped .]]> 2018-04-27 13:41:34 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/256006253 madison_young4 https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/256662247 The Missouri Compromise—also referred to as the Compromise of 1820—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 18:46:41 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/256662247 madison_young4 https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/256844816 September 9, 1850
In 1849, Californians sought statehood and, after heated debate in the U.S. Congress arising out of the slavery issue, California entered the Union as a free, non-slavery state by the Compromise of 1850.California became the 31st state on September 9,1850.]]> 2018-05-01 13:40:49 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/256844816 madison_young4 https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/256845700 2018-05-01 13:42:39 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/256845700 madison_young4 https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/256845725 2018-05-01 13:42:41 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/256845725 madison_young4 https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/257637326 Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek acompromise 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.]]> 2018-05-03 13:23:43 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/257637326 madison_young4 https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/257638159 The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act 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 "BloodhoundLaw" for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves.]]> 2018-05-03 13:25:17 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/257638159 madison_young4 https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/257638468 The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´.]]> 2018-05-03 13:25:54 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/257638468 madison_young4 https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/257640883 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.]]> 2018-05-03 13:30:23 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/257640883 madison_young4 https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/257641472 In the early days of the United States government, name calling in the Congressional chambers was commonplace, much as it is today. However, in those days when tempers flared, it often led to fisticuffs and violence.]]> 2018-05-03 13:31:27 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/257641472 madison_young4 https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/257642274 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; and that ...Mar 28, 2018]]> 2018-05-03 13:33:01 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/257642274 madison_young4 https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/257643047 Lincoln's opponent in the senate race was senator Stephen Douglas , an Illinois  senator who saw no reason why the nation could not go on half slave and half free.]]> 2018-05-03 13:34:32 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/257643047 madison_young4 https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/257644590 On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a small army of 18 men into the small town of HARPER'S FERRY, Virginia. His plan was to instigate a major slave rebellion in the South. He would seize the arms and ammunition in the federal arsenal, arm slaves in the area and move south along the Appalachian Mountains, attracting slaves to his cause. He had no rations. He had no escape route. His plan was doomed from the very beginning. But it did succeed to deepen the divide between the North and South.]]> 2018-05-03 13:37:06 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/257644590 madison_young4 https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/257645137 On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Douglas, Breckinridge, and Bell. He was the first president from the Republican Party.]]> 2018-05-03 13:38:08 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/257645137 madison_young4 https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/257645885 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.]]> 2018-05-03 13:39:18 UTC https://padlet.com/madison_young4/h3pq03ceyq4b/wish/257645885