https://padlet.com/shermane1684/ljar7x8vhvb1pneg A visual timeline representation of the events leading to the Civil War. en-us 2020-05-12 03:26:54 UTC 2020-05-12 03:57:51 UTC hello@padlet.com shermane1684 https://padlet.com/shermane1684/ljar7x8vhvb1pneg/wish/566488370 The Missouri Compromise was a United States federal legislation that decided Maine to the United States as a free state, as well as with Missouri as a slave state. ]]> 2020-05-12 03:28:59 UTC https://padlet.com/shermane1684/ljar7x8vhvb1pneg/wish/566488370 shermane1684 https://padlet.com/shermane1684/ljar7x8vhvb1pneg/wish/566494811 Southerners proposed a bill that would extend the Missouri Compromise line all the way to the Pacific. Slavery would be banned north of that line and allowed south of it. Northerners in Congress rejected this proposal.  Northerners denounced slavery as a crime against humanity.]]> 2020-05-12 03:37:13 UTC https://padlet.com/shermane1684/ljar7x8vhvb1pneg/wish/566494811 shermane1684 https://padlet.com/shermane1684/ljar7x8vhvb1pneg/wish/566497383 The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican American War.]]> 2020-05-12 03:40:33 UTC https://padlet.com/shermane1684/ljar7x8vhvb1pneg/wish/566497383 shermane1684 https://padlet.com/shermane1684/ljar7x8vhvb1pneg/wish/566499635 Passed on September 18, 1850 by Congress, The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was part of the Compromise of 1850. The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. The act also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves.]]> 2020-05-12 03:43:19 UTC https://padlet.com/shermane1684/ljar7x8vhvb1pneg/wish/566499635 shermane1684 https://padlet.com/shermane1684/ljar7x8vhvb1pneg/wish/566500580 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. ]]> 2020-05-12 03:44:29 UTC https://padlet.com/shermane1684/ljar7x8vhvb1pneg/wish/566500580 shermane1684 https://padlet.com/shermane1684/ljar7x8vhvb1pneg/wish/566501577 The Bleeding Kansas event was a mini civil war between slavery and anti-slavery forces that occurred in Kansas from 1856 to 1865. The Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, thousands of Northerners and Southerners came to the newly created Kansas Territory. Many Northerners intended to prevent slavery at all costs.]]> 2020-05-12 03:45:44 UTC https://padlet.com/shermane1684/ljar7x8vhvb1pneg/wish/566501577 shermane1684 https://padlet.com/shermane1684/ljar7x8vhvb1pneg/wish/566503193 Legislative violence refers to any violent clashes between members of a legislature, often physically, inside the legislature and triggered by divisive issues and tight votes. Such clashes have occurred in many countries across time, and notable incidents still regularly occur.]]> 2020-05-12 03:47:48 UTC https://padlet.com/shermane1684/ljar7x8vhvb1pneg/wish/566503193 shermane1684 https://padlet.com/shermane1684/ljar7x8vhvb1pneg/wish/566505720 The Dred Scott case, also known as Dred Scott v. Sanford, was a decade-long fight for freedom by a black slave named Dred Scott. The case persisted through several courts and ultimately reached the Supreme Court whose decision made abolitionists upset.]]> 2020-05-12 03:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/shermane1684/ljar7x8vhvb1pneg/wish/566505720 shermane1684 https://padlet.com/shermane1684/ljar7x8vhvb1pneg/wish/566507481 The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.]]> 2020-05-12 03:53:45 UTC https://padlet.com/shermane1684/ljar7x8vhvb1pneg/wish/566507481 shermane1684 https://padlet.com/shermane1684/ljar7x8vhvb1pneg/wish/566508576 The 1860 United States presidential election was the 19th presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860. In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin were victorious]]> 2020-05-12 03:55:12 UTC https://padlet.com/shermane1684/ljar7x8vhvb1pneg/wish/566508576 shermane1684 https://padlet.com/shermane1684/ljar7x8vhvb1pneg/wish/566509946 Many maintain that the primary cause of the war was the Southern states' desire to preserve the institution of slavery. Others minimize slavery and point to other factors, such as taxation or the principle of States' Rights.]]> 2020-05-12 03:57:05 UTC https://padlet.com/shermane1684/ljar7x8vhvb1pneg/wish/566509946