https://padlet.com/s40029340/victoriaaa_70 Mrs. Nouis, Period 1 en-us 2018-02-22 20:48:15 UTC 2025-11-30 14:57:58 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Shakinghands.png s40029340 https://padlet.com/s40029340/victoriaaa_70/wish/234490135 There was much controversy when Missouri was admitted a state, because government couldn't decide whether it should be a slave or free state. Currently, the United States had 11 free states and 11 slave states, making it even, but also preventing congress from having a simple solution. It was decided that Missouri would be a slave state but Maine would become a free state, and all states made on the territory acquired from the Louisiana purchase would also be free states.]]> 2018-02-22 20:56:53 UTC https://padlet.com/s40029340/victoriaaa_70/wish/234490135 s40029340 https://padlet.com/s40029340/victoriaaa_70/wish/234880320 Nat Turner created an uprising in 1831 because he was a slave, and he and his followers killed about 60 white people, making it the bloodiest uprising.]]> 2018-02-23 19:48:27 UTC https://padlet.com/s40029340/victoriaaa_70/wish/234880320 s40029340 https://padlet.com/s40029340/victoriaaa_70/wish/234882892 David Wilmot proposed a plan to legislation where slavery would be outlawed in all states acquired by the Mexican-American war. He spent 2 years fighting for this plan but all of his attempts failed. He did arise questions about secession, however.]]> 2018-02-23 19:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s40029340/victoriaaa_70/wish/234882892 s40029340 https://padlet.com/s40029340/victoriaaa_70/wish/235110278 A compromise that stop the territorial expansion of slavery. It temporarily stopped fights between the North and the South, but didn't help with the divide between them.]]> 2018-02-25 16:51:38 UTC https://padlet.com/s40029340/victoriaaa_70/wish/235110278 s40029340 https://padlet.com/s40029340/victoriaaa_70/wish/235111468 This book by Harriet Beecher highlighted the horrors of slavery and was a best seller.]]> 2018-02-25 16:59:11 UTC https://padlet.com/s40029340/victoriaaa_70/wish/235111468 s40029340 https://padlet.com/s40029340/victoriaaa_70/wish/235114262 Threats were made amongst congressmen after the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was passed and states were given the opportunity to vote on whether or not to continue with slavery. The two opposing sides on slavery went to Kansas to try to effect the results with numbers, and there was much bloodshed and violence.]]> 2018-02-25 17:21:18 UTC https://padlet.com/s40029340/victoriaaa_70/wish/235114262 s40029340 https://padlet.com/s40029340/victoriaaa_70/wish/235115951 Slave Dred Scott went to court to try to sue for his freedom, but in Supreme Court he was told that he had no rights because he was just property. This decision altered the balance in the country that was preventing the civil war.]]> 2018-02-25 17:33:44 UTC https://padlet.com/s40029340/victoriaaa_70/wish/235115951 s40029340 https://padlet.com/s40029340/victoriaaa_70/wish/235119818 John Brown created an uprising with free blacks and supportive whites where they tried to collect weapons to give to slaves and cause a rebellion. He was caught and was executed for treason, but became a martyr for abolitionists.]]> 2018-02-25 17:58:23 UTC https://padlet.com/s40029340/victoriaaa_70/wish/235119818 s40029340 https://padlet.com/s40029340/victoriaaa_70/wish/235123478 Abraham's election raised fear in the south because he stood against slavery. For this reason, by 1861, six states dropped out of the union.]]> 2018-02-25 18:23:32 UTC https://padlet.com/s40029340/victoriaaa_70/wish/235123478 s40029340 https://padlet.com/s40029340/victoriaaa_70/wish/235123986 Federal forts found in the south were now considered foreign land, but Abraham Lincoln continued to send them supplies. Out of rage, the south bombed these supply ships and the civil war was now underway.]]> 2018-02-25 18:27:45 UTC https://padlet.com/s40029340/victoriaaa_70/wish/235123986