https://padlet.com/vespeale/ngxd9vc3hvl6evkz en-us 2020-05-08 15:43:09 UTC 2020-05-08 16:17:39 UTC hello@padlet.com vespeale https://padlet.com/vespeale/ngxd9vc3hvl6evkz/wish/560124846 Many southerners believed that world powers would need there cotton, giving them the confidence to take on the more powerful and resourceful north.]]> 2020-05-08 15:45:47 UTC https://padlet.com/vespeale/ngxd9vc3hvl6evkz/wish/560124846 vespeale https://padlet.com/vespeale/ngxd9vc3hvl6evkz/wish/560126126 The North did not agree with slavery like the south did.]]> 2020-05-08 15:46:16 UTC https://padlet.com/vespeale/ngxd9vc3hvl6evkz/wish/560126126 vespeale https://padlet.com/vespeale/ngxd9vc3hvl6evkz/wish/560127205 The Slave states were adamant that slavery was a state issue and they were unwilling to accept any federal intervention on the subject.]]> 2020-05-08 15:46:43 UTC https://padlet.com/vespeale/ngxd9vc3hvl6evkz/wish/560127205 vespeale https://padlet.com/vespeale/ngxd9vc3hvl6evkz/wish/560132659 The North feared that if slavery continued to expand to new territories they would inevitably join the southern slave-holding states making the north irrelevant and the United States would eventually become totally dominated by elite Southern slaveholders.]]> 2020-05-08 15:48:53 UTC https://padlet.com/vespeale/ngxd9vc3hvl6evkz/wish/560132659 vespeale https://padlet.com/vespeale/ngxd9vc3hvl6evkz/wish/560133488 The American abolitionist movement emerged in the 1830s as part of religious revivalism seeing slavery as a personal sin and emancipation as a repentance for the sin.]]> 2020-05-08 15:49:11 UTC https://padlet.com/vespeale/ngxd9vc3hvl6evkz/wish/560133488 vespeale https://padlet.com/vespeale/ngxd9vc3hvl6evkz/wish/560135585 The novel with its tremendous success was instrumental in changing the public perception on slavery.]]> 2020-05-08 15:50:04 UTC https://padlet.com/vespeale/ngxd9vc3hvl6evkz/wish/560135585 vespeale https://padlet.com/vespeale/ngxd9vc3hvl6evkz/wish/560136901  That meant that instead of having a latitude divide the slave and non-slave territory, the residents of the state would decide whether it joined as a slave state or a free state.]]> 2020-05-08 15:50:36 UTC https://padlet.com/vespeale/ngxd9vc3hvl6evkz/wish/560136901 vespeale https://padlet.com/vespeale/ngxd9vc3hvl6evkz/wish/560137976 The court denied Scott’s request ruling that a negro, whose ancestors were imported into the United Sates and sold as slaves, whether enslaved or free, could not be an American citizen and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court.]]> 2020-05-08 15:51:04 UTC https://padlet.com/vespeale/ngxd9vc3hvl6evkz/wish/560137976 vespeale https://padlet.com/vespeale/ngxd9vc3hvl6evkz/wish/560138904 Though his election may not have been the primary cause for the war but it sent warning bells ringing in the southern states leading to secession and finally the civil war in 1861.]]> 2020-05-08 15:51:26 UTC https://padlet.com/vespeale/ngxd9vc3hvl6evkz/wish/560138904 vespeale https://padlet.com/vespeale/ngxd9vc3hvl6evkz/wish/560140624 The election of Lincoln caused the state of South Carolina to call a state convention which voted unanimously in favor of secession on 20th December, 1860. The “cotton states” of Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas followed suit, seceding in January and February 1861. ]]> 2020-05-08 15:52:10 UTC https://padlet.com/vespeale/ngxd9vc3hvl6evkz/wish/560140624