https://padlet.com/mcwilkat/men9915fmq4eax6t By: Kate McWilliams en-us 2020-05-04 15:50:14 UTC 2023-05-17 01:58:54 UTC hello@padlet.com mcwilkat https://padlet.com/mcwilkat/men9915fmq4eax6t/wish/549747139 Since the beginning of America, the states argued about how much power each one should have; the southern states espicallay felt like the fedreal government was taking away their rights and powers as a state. This angered the southern states. ]]> 2020-05-04 15:52:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mcwilkat/men9915fmq4eax6t/wish/549747139 mcwilkat https://padlet.com/mcwilkat/men9915fmq4eax6t/wish/549891672 The northern people wanted to abolish slavery, but the south wanted to keep it. ]]> 2020-05-04 16:37:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mcwilkat/men9915fmq4eax6t/wish/549891672 mcwilkat https://padlet.com/mcwilkat/men9915fmq4eax6t/wish/549892010  A slave abolitionist was just elected as president.This was the last straw for the southern states because the south felt they had no say in the federal government and they were worried slavery would end. ]]> 2020-05-04 16:37:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mcwilkat/men9915fmq4eax6t/wish/549892010 mcwilkat https://padlet.com/mcwilkat/men9915fmq4eax6t/wish/549893253 After the election of Abraham Lincoln and other "strikes" against the south, some states decided to secede, or leave. These states formed the Confederate States of America. ]]> 2020-05-04 16:37:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mcwilkat/men9915fmq4eax6t/wish/549893253 mcwilkat https://padlet.com/mcwilkat/men9915fmq4eax6t/wish/549895961 As the United States started to expand west, there was argument about whether the new states should be slave states or not. ]]> 2020-05-04 16:38:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mcwilkat/men9915fmq4eax6t/wish/549895961 mcwilkat https://padlet.com/mcwilkat/men9915fmq4eax6t/wish/549911805 The north's economy was made up of money made form factories and industry, whereas the southern economy was all farming. The north didn't need slaves for their economy, yet the south insisted they needed slaves for theirs. ]]> 2020-05-04 16:43:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mcwilkat/men9915fmq4eax6t/wish/549911805 mcwilkat https://padlet.com/mcwilkat/men9915fmq4eax6t/wish/549915420 The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed people in Kansas to vote on whether or not they wanted to be a slave state. People from both sides fought over this issue, and some died. This issue is now known as Bleeding Kansas. ]]> 2020-05-04 16:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mcwilkat/men9915fmq4eax6t/wish/549915420 mcwilkat https://padlet.com/mcwilkat/men9915fmq4eax6t/wish/549938098 On April 10, 1861 Confederate forces demanded that Fort Sumter to surrender. The fort refused. Two days later Confederate forces decided to open fire on the fort, and the following day the fort surrendered. The war had begun. ]]> 2020-05-04 16:52:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mcwilkat/men9915fmq4eax6t/wish/549938098 mcwilkat https://padlet.com/mcwilkat/men9915fmq4eax6t/wish/549938223 More and more people started to join this movement, and that caused the southern states to feel outnumbered when it came to slavery. ]]> 2020-05-04 16:52:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mcwilkat/men9915fmq4eax6t/wish/549938223 mcwilkat https://padlet.com/mcwilkat/men9915fmq4eax6t/wish/549938390 Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book about getting rid of slavery, that showed slavery in a way many people hadn't seen before. This caused tensions to rise between the people who wanted slavery and those who didn't, espically since 300,000 copies were sold the year after it was published. ]]> 2020-05-04 16:52:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mcwilkat/men9915fmq4eax6t/wish/549938390