https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb its cool en-us 2022-01-31 17:02:16 UTC 2022-02-01 18:50:07 UTC hello@padlet.com egraney1 https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2021775484 The Treaty of Paris was on September 3, 1783, ending the War of the American Revolution.the agreement recognized U.S. independence and granted the U.S. significant western territory.]]> 2022-01-31 17:09:12 UTC https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2021775484 egraney1 https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2021783579 The most significant effect of the cotton gin, was the growth of slavery. While it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for enslaved labor to grow and pick the cotton.]]> 2022-01-31 17:12:41 UTC https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2021783579 egraney1 https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2021788382 the Louisiana Purchase added much of the Great Plains to the United States, set the stage for expansion to the Pacific Ocean, and set in motion sectional conflicts over slavery that led to the Civil War.]]> 2022-01-31 17:14:37 UTC https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2021788382 egraney1 https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2021797797 The 1808 Act imposed heavy penalties on international traders, but did not end slavery itself nor the domestic sale of slaves.]]> 2022-01-31 17:18:34 UTC https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2021797797 egraney1 https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2021806427 In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. ]]> 2022-01-31 17:21:58 UTC https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2021806427 egraney1 https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2021828175 Texas was admitted to the United States as a slave state. The annexation of Texas contributed to the coming of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). The conflict started, in part, over a disagreement about which river was Mexico's true northern border: the Nueces or the Rio Grande.]]> 2022-01-31 17:30:38 UTC https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2021828175 egraney1 https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2021832336 Bleeding Kansas describes the period of repeated outbreaks of violent guerrilla warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces following the creation of the new territory of Kansas.]]> 2022-01-31 17:32:23 UTC https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2021832336 egraney1 https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2021840693 Manifest Destiny, in U.S. history, the supposed inevitability of the continued territorial expansion of the boundaries of the United States westward to the Pacific and beyond.]]> 2022-01-31 17:35:50 UTC https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2021840693 egraney1 https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2021856366 The abolitionist movement was an organized effort to end the practice of slavery in the United States. The animosity fueled by the movement, along with other factors, led to the Civil War and ultimately the end of slavery in America.]]> 2022-01-31 17:42:06 UTC https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2021856366 egraney1 https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2021873774 Lincoln's anti-slavery platform made him extremely unpopular with Southerners and his nomination for President in 1860 enraged them.]]> 2022-01-31 17:49:14 UTC https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2021873774 egraney1 https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2021878275 It prohibited transporting slaves from the United States to any foreign place or country. It also made it illegal for American citizens to outfit a ship for purposes of importing slaves.]]> 2022-01-31 17:51:09 UTC https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2021878275 egraney1 https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2022061710 Three-fifths compromise, compromise agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.]]> 2022-01-31 19:10:57 UTC https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2022061710 egraney1 https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2022066059 provided a dual system of congressional representation. In the House of Representatives each state would be assigned a number of seats in proportion to its population.]]> 2022-01-31 19:12:59 UTC https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2022066059 egraney1 https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2022071874 Originally, the Electoral College provided the Constitutional Convention with a compromise between two main proposals: the popular election of the President and the election of the President by Congress.]]> 2022-01-31 19:15:28 UTC https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2022071874 egraney1 https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2024013820 The Dred Scott Decision outraged abolitionists, who saw the Supreme Court's ruling as a way to stop debate about slavery in the territories. The divide between North and South over slavery grew and culminated in the secession of southern states from the Union and the creation of the Confederate States of America.]]> 2022-02-01 18:35:14 UTC https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2024013820 egraney1 https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2024017914 The victory of Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election triggered cries for disunion across the slaveholding South. The secession of South Carolina precipitated the outbreak of the American Civil War in Charleston Harbor]]> 2022-02-01 18:37:12 UTC https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2024017914 egraney1 https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2024025589  beginning with the first textile mill in New England in the 1790s, created an economy that did not need slaves. Southerners, however, continued to use slave labor on their farms because agriculture was profitable.]]> 2022-02-01 18:40:47 UTC https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2024025589 egraney1 https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2024031743 The Underground Railroad physically resisted the repressive laws that held slaves in bondage. ... By provoking fear and anger in the South, and prompting the enactment of harsh legislation that eroded the rights of white Americans, the Underground Railroad was a direct contributing cause of the Civil War.]]> 2022-02-01 18:43:32 UTC https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2024031743 egraney1 https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2024041850 Uncle Tom's Cabin widened the viewpoints between the North and the South, greatly strengthened Northern abolitionism, and weakened British sympathy for the Southern cause. The most influential novel ever written by an American, it was one of the contributing causes of the Civil War.]]> 2022-02-01 18:48:09 UTC https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2024041850 egraney1 https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2024046263 Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which vividly dramatized the experience of slavery. ... Championed by abolitionists but denounced in the South, it contributed to popular feeling against slavery so much that it is cited among the causes of the American Civil War.]]> 2022-02-01 18:50:07 UTC https://padlet.com/egraney1/mwptxnqjkx6gbubb/wish/2024046263