https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo Made with fortitude en-us 2018-04-27 16:51:19 UTC 2018-05-02 17:36:13 UTC hello@padlet.com carter_mccleese https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256091577 In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states]]> 2018-04-27 16:54:19 UTC https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256091577 carter_mccleese https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256091979 Southerners worried that if Congress banned slavery in Missouri, it would try to end slavery elsewhere.]]> 2018-04-27 16:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256091979 carter_mccleese https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256092333 Run away slaves
Left without permission from their masters tried to reach states that banned slavery]]> 2018-04-27 16:55:56 UTC https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256092333 carter_mccleese https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256092675 Allowed a group of white men born in the U.S to let slavery be decide it be ok or not ok to allow slavery ]]> 2018-04-27 16:56:49 UTC https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256092675 carter_mccleese https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256093026 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]]> 2018-04-27 16:57:36 UTC https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256093026 carter_mccleese https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256093318 the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.]]> 2018-04-27 16:58:18 UTC https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256093318 carter_mccleese https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256093561 Abolitionists nicknamed it the "BloodhoundLaw" for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves.]]> 2018-04-27 16:58:53 UTC https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256093561 carter_mccleese https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256094320 It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.]]> 2018-04-27 17:01:05 UTC https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256094320 carter_mccleese https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256095167 Though most blacks and abolitionists strongly opposed the Compromise, the majority of Americans embraced it, believing that it offered a final, workable solution to the slavery question.]]> 2018-04-27 17:03:25 UTC https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256095167 carter_mccleese https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256095539 Congress men actually fought each other wanting their way if they were a republican or democrats fire arms were in the hands of the men also. ]]> 2018-04-27 17:04:21 UTC https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256095539 carter_mccleese https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256095790 The Dred Scott decision was the culmination of the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford, one of the most controversial events preceding the Civil War.]]> 2018-04-27 17:05:00 UTC https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256095790 carter_mccleese https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256096395 Douglas and Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois state election campaign as among the most significant statements in American political history. ]]> 2018-04-27 17:06:28 UTC https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256096395 carter_mccleese https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256096668 Brown traveled to Kansas with five of his sons to fight against the pro slavery forces in the contest over that territory. On May 21, 1856, pro slavery men raided the abolitionist town of Lawrence, and Brown personally sought revenge.]]> 2018-04-27 17:07:11 UTC https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256096668 carter_mccleese https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256097055 Lincoln won the party's presidential nomination. In the November 1860 election, Lincoln again faced Douglas, who represented the Northern faction of a heavily divided Democratic Party]]> 2018-04-27 17:08:08 UTC https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256097055 carter_mccleese https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256097376 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.]]> 2018-04-27 17:08:52 UTC https://padlet.com/carter_mccleese/juq2drit8dzo/wish/256097376