https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil This is Padlet is about all the events that where before or led up to the Civil War. This is one of the most important historical events in US History. The reason for this war was because the South wouldn't give up slavery. en-us 2018-04-04 16:10:52 UTC 2025-11-14 00:14:21 UTC hello@padlet.com volpew5007 https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248574760 This new law made Nebraska and Kansas slave territories. The only requirement was they had to be above the Missouri compromise line. http://www.compromise-of-1850.org/missouri-compromise-1820/]]> 2018-04-04 16:32:52 UTC https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248574760 volpew5007 https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248575101 This was the result of Congress not wanting to debate over slavery. Congress established a "Gag Rule" so nobody could debate over slavery. https://www.hrfn.org/event/filling-the-gaps-human-rights-funders-and-the-global-gag-rule/]]> 2018-04-04 16:33:38 UTC https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248575101 volpew5007 https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248575431 Fugitive slaves are slaves who rebelled by running away to freedom to the North. The South didn't like it so they wanted Congress to make a Fugitive Slave Act. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fugitive-slave-acts]]> 2018-04-04 16:34:21 UTC https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248575431 volpew5007 https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248575617 The gag rule held off slavery issue from Congress for 10 years, until president Polk sent a bill from the Mexican American War. This is called the Wilmot Proviso, it stated that the states won from Mexico can not have slavery. http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/polk/aa_polk_wilmot_1.html]]> 2018-04-04 16:34:47 UTC https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248575617 volpew5007 https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248575912 Congress was trying to get rid of slavery in California by making laws. The South  tried to offer a compromise but Congress denied it and just ended up making it illegal. https://www.zazzle.com/statehood+vintage+stickers]]> 2018-04-04 16:35:23 UTC https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248575912 volpew5007 https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248576297 In 1850 the United States Congress signed 5 bills for a Compromise. Henry Clay invented this Compromise and his plan was to end the deadlock in California so he gave an unexpected call to Senator Daniel Webster. http://www.ushistory.org/us/30d.asp ]]> 2018-04-04 16:36:08 UTC https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248576297 volpew5007 https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248576738 When the Fugitive Slave act was passed the South didn't feel like there stolen slaves would be returned. The North didn't enforce this law so only 299 slaves were caught which made the South mad. http://www.civilwar.com/resources/government-77630/148538-the-fugitive-slave-law.html]]> 2018-04-04 16:36:57 UTC https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248576738 volpew5007 https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248577090 Many important people went to Belgium to discuss whether or not Nebraska is a slave state. If it is than it would become the first slave state in the North, that's why the north was scared. https://sites.google.com/a/oceanschools.org/the-railroad-express/home/kansas-nebraska-act]]> 2018-04-04 16:37:40 UTC https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248577090 volpew5007 https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248577442 After the Nebraska-Kansas act was passed many farmers, slave supporters and haters moved their. This led to lots of corruption and violence and a man named John Brown took 7 people and killed 5 suspected of voting for slavery. http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1863/september/quantrills-lawrence-kansas-raid.htm]]> 2018-04-04 16:38:19 UTC https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248577442 volpew5007 https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248577674 Senator Charles Sumner gave a speech and he assaulted many people in his speech. This made people mad so a Senators son named Preston Barnes started beating up Sumner with a cane. http://slideplayer.com/slide/8439337/]]> 2018-04-04 16:38:50 UTC https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248577674 volpew5007 https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248577872 A man named Dred Scott wanted to become  a free man sense he was living in a free state. This case made it all the way to the supreme court but lost in a 5-4 vote. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2932.html]]> 2018-04-04 16:39:19 UTC https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248577872 volpew5007 https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248578500 The Lincoln Douglas debates were debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas.Their were debating for the Illinois senate chair, it was very close but Douglas but the job.
 http://www.american-historama.org/1860-1865-civil-war-era/lincoln-douglas-debates.htm]]> 2018-04-04 16:40:44 UTC https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248578500 volpew5007 https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248579019 John Brown couldn't wait for Congress to make a change so he did it on his own. Brown came up with a plan to attack the Federal  Arsenal, his plan didn't work and he got charged with treason. https://www.civilwar.org/learn/collections/john-browns-harpers-ferry-raid]]> 2018-04-04 16:41:45 UTC https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248579019 volpew5007 https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248579240 Lincoln was elected President but only won 40% of the votes all coming from the North. After he became president the South was afraid he would abolish slavery. https://www.biography.com/people/abraham-lincoln-9382540]]> 2018-04-04 16:42:15 UTC https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248579240 volpew5007 https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248579529 Lincoln did not make any compromises on slavery but he would enforce the fugitive slave act to cause it from spreading. Also a bunch of delegates got together and 6 states left the union after wards, forming the confederate states. http://www.ushistory.org/us/32e.asp]]> 2018-04-04 16:42:52 UTC https://padlet.com/volpew5007/lo81c8wm6lil/wish/248579529