https://padlet.com/songrethan/htpdxgddrxkoxlww This timeline displays the events that led to the Civil War. It started out with little disputes and fights in Congress because of politics, but soon escalated to a much greater scale. Violent attacks on others from the opposite party occurred, and it seemed that a Civil War was inevitable. en-us 2020-05-05 17:23:33 UTC 2026-01-19 16:33:58 UTC hello@padlet.com songrethan https://padlet.com/songrethan/htpdxgddrxkoxlww/wish/552788074 The Missouri Compromise of 1820 made Missouri a slave state and Maine as a free state, this way the power of the free and slave states were balanced. Congress also drew a line across the Louisiana Purchase to mark the slave boundaries. ]]> 2020-05-05 17:29:46 UTC https://padlet.com/songrethan/htpdxgddrxkoxlww/wish/552788074 songrethan https://padlet.com/songrethan/htpdxgddrxkoxlww/wish/552788552 For a short time, there were no more arguments over slavery, but after the Second Great Awakening, people began to see pleasing the Lord/God as abolishing slavery. Abolitionists wrote so many petitions, that Congress had to set aside all antislavery petitions.]]> 2020-05-05 17:29:57 UTC https://padlet.com/songrethan/htpdxgddrxkoxlww/wish/552788552 songrethan https://padlet.com/songrethan/htpdxgddrxkoxlww/wish/552789478 Slaves continued to run to the North where they could be considered free. To people in the south, they were essentially losing money, so they demanded Congress to help them with this issue.]]> 2020-05-05 17:30:19 UTC https://padlet.com/songrethan/htpdxgddrxkoxlww/wish/552789478 songrethan https://padlet.com/songrethan/htpdxgddrxkoxlww/wish/552790005 In 1850, Henry Clay proposed a plan to deal with California. It would be admitted as a free state, while the New Mexico and Utah regions could decide whether to allow slavery or not. There would also be no more slave trading in Washington D.C. The compromise would be accepted after 9 moths of debating.]]> 2020-05-05 17:30:32 UTC https://padlet.com/songrethan/htpdxgddrxkoxlww/wish/552790005 songrethan https://padlet.com/songrethan/htpdxgddrxkoxlww/wish/552790518 2020-05-05 17:30:43 UTC https://padlet.com/songrethan/htpdxgddrxkoxlww/wish/552790518 songrethan https://padlet.com/songrethan/htpdxgddrxkoxlww/wish/552794751 Stephen A. Douglas proposed this bill to make Kansas and Nebraska states.Also, Kansas and Nebraska would be allowed to vote for if they were pro or against slavery.]]> 2020-05-05 17:32:09 UTC https://padlet.com/songrethan/htpdxgddrxkoxlww/wish/552794751 songrethan https://padlet.com/songrethan/htpdxgddrxkoxlww/wish/552795285 Kansas had a time of extreme violence called “Bleeding Kansas.” Pro-slavery men attacked abolitionists, while some abolitionists killed slave owners; the most notorious of them was a man named John Brown.]]> 2020-05-05 17:32:21 UTC https://padlet.com/songrethan/htpdxgddrxkoxlww/wish/552795285 songrethan https://padlet.com/songrethan/htpdxgddrxkoxlww/wish/552795729 Charles Sumner, a Massachusetts senator, was mad that Kansas would become pro-slavery. In front of the Senate, he insulted southern senators who were “compelling a hateful embrace of slavery.” He was later beat up with a cane by a southern senator's nephew.]]> 2020-05-05 17:32:31 UTC https://padlet.com/songrethan/htpdxgddrxkoxlww/wish/552795729 songrethan https://padlet.com/songrethan/htpdxgddrxkoxlww/wish/552796326 This act made it illegal to hide slaves. Northerners had to abide by the law and help capture slaves. ]]> 2020-05-05 17:32:45 UTC https://padlet.com/songrethan/htpdxgddrxkoxlww/wish/552796326 songrethan https://padlet.com/songrethan/htpdxgddrxkoxlww/wish/552796761 In a bunch of presidential debates, Lincoln forced Douglas (his opponent) to tell everyone what he thought of slavery. Even though Lincoln lost the campaign, his debates were widely broadcasted and gained a lot of fame.]]> 2020-05-05 17:32:55 UTC https://padlet.com/songrethan/htpdxgddrxkoxlww/wish/552796761 songrethan https://padlet.com/songrethan/htpdxgddrxkoxlww/wish/552797243 Abraham Lincoln was elected president after the Southern party split into three factions. On the other hand, the Republicans fully supported Lincoln and he easily won the election. However, the butthurt South was not going to admit defeat, and talk of leaving the Union was happening.]]> 2020-05-05 17:33:07 UTC https://padlet.com/songrethan/htpdxgddrxkoxlww/wish/552797243 songrethan https://padlet.com/songrethan/htpdxgddrxkoxlww/wish/552798267 Soon after Lincoln's victory, South Carolina and six other states left the Union, and formed the Confederate States of America. In 1861, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter, marking the beginning of the war.]]> 2020-05-05 17:33:21 UTC https://padlet.com/songrethan/htpdxgddrxkoxlww/wish/552798267 songrethan https://padlet.com/songrethan/htpdxgddrxkoxlww/wish/553033831 A Missouri slave, Dred Scott, who lived in  Wisconsin (a free state) for a time, wanted to be free, arguing that his stay in Wisconsin made him a free man. Congress decided to go above and beyond and say that as a slave, he could not be a U.S. citizen, and also that the Missouri Compromise itself was unconstitutional.]]> 2020-05-05 19:09:09 UTC https://padlet.com/songrethan/htpdxgddrxkoxlww/wish/553033831