https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch Made with no regrets, whatsoever en-us 2018-04-27 13:00:14 UTC 2018-05-04 13:01:15 UTC hello@padlet.com aryaman_sharma https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255989136 In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. ... In 1854,the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act.]]> 2018-04-27 13:07:17 UTC https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255989136 aryaman_sharma https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255993289 the Missouri Compromise resolved the issue by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It also drew a line across the Louisiana Territory. In the future, slavery would be permitted only south of that line.]]> 2018-04-27 13:15:58 UTC https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255993289 aryaman_sharma https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255993536 were slaves who left their master and traveled without authorization; generally they tried to reach states or territories where slavery was banned, including Canada, or, until 1821, Spanish Florida.]]> 2018-04-27 13:16:33 UTC https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255993536 aryaman_sharma https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255993786 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.]]> 2018-04-27 13:17:04 UTC https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255993786 aryaman_sharma https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255994028 California's application for admission thus signaled a change in the balance of pro and anti-slavery states, and it was formally admitted to the Union as a free state on September 9, 1850.]]> 2018-04-27 13:17:33 UTC https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255994028 aryaman_sharma https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255994291 (1) California was admitted to the Union as a free state; (2) the remainder of the Mexican cession was divided into the two territories of New Mexico and Utah and organized without mention of slavery]]> 2018-04-27 13:18:02 UTC https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255994291 aryaman_sharma https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255994581 The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territories ]]> 2018-04-27 13:18:36 UTC https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255994581 aryaman_sharma https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255996128 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´.]]> 2018-04-27 13:21:45 UTC https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255996128 aryaman_sharma https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255996564 Bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Act overturned the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory and instead, using the principle of popular sovereignty, decreed that the residents would determine whether the area became a free state or a slave state.]]> 2018-04-27 13:22:35 UTC https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255996564 aryaman_sharma https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255996975 The violence in Kansas greatly disturbed Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts. To Sumner, it was proof of what he had long suspected—that Senator Stephen Douglas had plotted with Southerners to make Kansas a slave state.]]> 2018-04-27 13:23:22 UTC https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255996975 aryaman_sharma https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255997581 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 the Missouri Compromise (1820), which had declared free all territories west of Missouri and north of latitude 36°30′, was unconstitutional.

]]> 2018-04-27 13:24:31 UTC https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255997581 aryaman_sharma https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255998185  Douglas argued that the Dred Scott decision had put the slavery issue to rest, but Lincoln disagreed. In his eyes, slavery was a moral, not a legal, issue. He declared, “The real issue in this controversy . . . is the sentiment of one class [group] that looks upon the institution of slavery as a wrong, and of another class that does not look upon it as a wrong.”]]> 2018-04-27 13:25:41 UTC https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255998185 aryaman_sharma https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255998532  John Brown adopted a more extreme approach. Rather than wait for Congress to act, Brown planned to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. An arsenal is a place where weapons and ammunition are stored.Brown wanted to use the weapons to arm slaves for a rebellion that would end slavery.]]> 2018-04-27 13:26:23 UTC https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255998532 aryaman_sharma https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255998767 Lincoln won the presidential election with just 40 percent of the votes, all of them cast in the North. In ten Southern states, he was not even on the ballot.]]> 2018-04-27 13:26:54 UTC https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255998767 aryaman_sharma https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255999801 Meanwhile, in Charleston, South Carolina, delegates attending a state convention voted that same day—December 20, 1860—to leave the Union. The city went wild as church bells rang and crowds filled the streets, roaring their approval. A South Carolina newspaper boldly proclaimed, “The Union Is Dissolved!” Six more states soon followed South Carolina's lead, and in February 1861, those states joined together as the Confederate States of America.]]> 2018-04-27 13:28:59 UTC https://padlet.com/aryaman_sharma/jsoizapvz4ch/wish/255999801