Timeline project by Harley Quinn https://padlet.com/arichetti2005/nlu7nkt3h4xv By Alexis Richetti en-us 2019-04-15 15:42:39 UTC 2025-02-14 20:37:26 UTC hello@padlet.com Source used sited here: arichetti2005 https://padlet.com/arichetti2005/nlu7nkt3h4xv/wish/351700757 Nat Turner, History.com Editors, HISTORY, https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/nat-turner, April 12, 2019, A&E Television Networks, September 12, 2018, December 2, 2009

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]]> 2019-04-15 15:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/arichetti2005/nlu7nkt3h4xv/wish/351700757 Election of 1860 arichetti2005 https://padlet.com/arichetti2005/nlu7nkt3h4xv/wish/351701220  The United States had been divided during the 1850s on questions surrounding the expansion of slavery and the rights of slave owners. The Republican Party, dominant in the North, secured enough electoral votes to put Abraham Lincoln in the White House without support from the South.Before Lincoln's inauguration, seven Southern states seceded and formed the Confederacy. The election was the last in which the Federalist Party fielded a presidential candidate.]]> 2019-04-15 15:45:56 UTC https://padlet.com/arichetti2005/nlu7nkt3h4xv/wish/351701220 Raid on Harper's Ferry 1859 arichetti2005 https://padlet.com/arichetti2005/nlu7nkt3h4xv/wish/351701719  An attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown's raid, accomplished by 20 men in his party, was defeated by a detachment of U.S. Marines led by Col. Robert E. Lee. John Brown had originally asked Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, both of whom he had met in his formative years as an abolitionist in Springfield, Massachusetts, to join him in his raid, but Tubman was prevented by illness, and Douglass declined, as he believed Brown's plan would fail. An attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery. ]]> 2019-04-15 15:46:58 UTC https://padlet.com/arichetti2005/nlu7nkt3h4xv/wish/351701719 Missouri Compromise 1820 arichetti2005 https://padlet.com/arichetti2005/nlu7nkt3h4xv/wish/351702580   Compromise between Pro-Slavery and Anti- Slavery supporters about slavery in new Lousiana territory. It prohibited slavery north of the 36th parallel, to keep the balance of slave and free states Missouri entered as a slave state so Maine could enter as a free.]]> 2019-04-15 15:49:06 UTC https://padlet.com/arichetti2005/nlu7nkt3h4xv/wish/351702580 Nat Turner’s Rebellion 1831 arichetti2005 https://padlet.com/arichetti2005/nlu7nkt3h4xv/wish/351702614  Nat Turner's Rebellion (also known as the Southampton Insurrection) was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831, led by Nat Turner. Rebel slaves killed from 55 to 65 people, at least 51 being white.]]> 2019-04-15 15:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/arichetti2005/nlu7nkt3h4xv/wish/351702614 Lincoln-Douglas Debates 1858 arichetti2005 https://padlet.com/arichetti2005/nlu7nkt3h4xv/wish/351703101  Series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln the republican candidate and Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. The main issue discussed in all seven debates was slavery.]]> 2019-04-15 15:50:33 UTC https://padlet.com/arichetti2005/nlu7nkt3h4xv/wish/351703101 Dred Scotts decisions 1857 arichetti2005 https://padlet.com/arichetti2005/nlu7nkt3h4xv/wish/351704863 The case had been brought before the court by Dred Scott, a slave who had lived with his owner in a free state before returning to the slave state of Missouri. Scott argued that his time spent in these locations entitled him to emancipation. In his decision, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney,a supporter of slavery, disagreed: The court found that no black, free or slave, could claim U.S. citizenship, and therefore blacks were unable to petition the court for their freedom. The Dred Scott decision incensed abolitionists and heightened North-South tensions.]]> 2019-04-15 15:54:22 UTC https://padlet.com/arichetti2005/nlu7nkt3h4xv/wish/351704863 Comprimise of 1850 arichetti2005 https://padlet.com/arichetti2005/nlu7nkt3h4xv/wish/351705307 The compromise consisted of five bills including the fugitive slave act. These bills were meant to end a four year argument between slave and free states regrading slavery in the Mexican cession area of the U.S. Reduced conflict in these areas for about four years.]]> 2019-04-15 15:55:16 UTC https://padlet.com/arichetti2005/nlu7nkt3h4xv/wish/351705307 Brooks attacks Sumner 1856 arichetti2005 https://padlet.com/arichetti2005/nlu7nkt3h4xv/wish/351705870  With tensions in Kansas high it carried over into the congress. Where congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina attacked congressman Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane, because Sumner blamed the south for the violence in Kansas.]]> 2019-04-15 15:56:33 UTC https://padlet.com/arichetti2005/nlu7nkt3h4xv/wish/351705870 Kansas- Nebraska Act 1854 arichetti2005 https://padlet.com/arichetti2005/nlu7nkt3h4xv/wish/351706299  This law created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and in effected repealed the Missouri compromise through popular sovereignty. It let the people living in these areas to decide for themselves if they wanted slavery in these areas or not.]]> 2019-04-15 15:57:34 UTC https://padlet.com/arichetti2005/nlu7nkt3h4xv/wish/351706299 Bleeding Kansas 1854-1858 arichetti2005 https://padlet.com/arichetti2005/nlu7nkt3h4xv/wish/351706651  Time were Kansas was the site of violence due to slavery issues. When Pro-slavery and anti-slavery supporters migrated to the area it created many violent in-counters. Kansas eventually enters as a free state.]]> 2019-04-15 15:58:28 UTC https://padlet.com/arichetti2005/nlu7nkt3h4xv/wish/351706651 Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852 arichetti2005 https://padlet.com/arichetti2005/nlu7nkt3h4xv/wish/351706937  Published in 1852 Uncle Tom's cabin is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Features a character known as Uncle Tom a long time slave. Was created to help the abolitionists movement in the 1850s.]]> 2019-04-15 15:59:18 UTC https://padlet.com/arichetti2005/nlu7nkt3h4xv/wish/351706937 Fugitive Slave Act 1850 arichetti2005 https://padlet.com/arichetti2005/nlu7nkt3h4xv/wish/351708127 Part of the Compromise of 1850, meant to reduce tension between slave holders of the south and free north. This law declared that any slaves found were to be returned to their masters.]]> 2019-04-15 16:02:19 UTC https://padlet.com/arichetti2005/nlu7nkt3h4xv/wish/351708127