https://padlet.com/s27198118/oabvm3faqjeq Made with me,myself, and I. en-us 2018-02-26 01:18:26 UTC 2018-02-26 02:41:24 UTC hello@padlet.com s27198118 https://padlet.com/s27198118/oabvm3faqjeq/wish/235187051 The Northern states did not want the Southern states, (slaveholding states) to gain too much power in Congress, they especially didn't want this to happen because they would be in the majority once Missouri joins as a slave state. Missouri was obtained through the Louisiana Purchase, just outside of the old Northwest Territory and they were afraid that allowing slavery in Missouri may influence other states carved from this territory to also become slave states. ]]> 2018-02-26 01:48:58 UTC https://padlet.com/s27198118/oabvm3faqjeq/wish/235187051 s27198118 https://padlet.com/s27198118/oabvm3faqjeq/wish/235188352      Nat Turner was the black leader in the rebellion that killed 55-65 whites in a quest to end slavery and free black people.There were many slave revolts in the south, though this one had the highest number of deaths, and is known as being one of the factors leading to the Civil War. In retaliation for the revolt, an estimated 100 to 200 blacks were killed. ]]> 2018-02-26 01:56:49 UTC https://padlet.com/s27198118/oabvm3faqjeq/wish/235188352 s27198118 https://padlet.com/s27198118/oabvm3faqjeq/wish/235189866  The Wilmot Proviso was proposed by David Wilmot in 1846, as an amendment  in August. This was one result of the Mexican-American War. The Wilmot Proviso stated that slavery should never exist in any territory gained from Mexico. The argument that the Wilmot Proviso proposes against slavery was a recarnation of other abolitionists before Wilmot.]]> 2018-02-26 02:05:13 UTC https://padlet.com/s27198118/oabvm3faqjeq/wish/235189866 s27198118 https://padlet.com/s27198118/oabvm3faqjeq/wish/235190490 The issue of what to do with the western territories added to the republic by the Mexican Cession consumed Congress in 1850. Making The Comprise of 1850.]]> 2018-02-26 02:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/s27198118/oabvm3faqjeq/wish/235190490 s27198118 https://padlet.com/s27198118/oabvm3faqjeq/wish/235191623 Tom fled with his wife and children and after six weeks as a fugitive, found freedom in Ontario, Canada. There in Canada, he sheltered other newly freed slaves and encouraged self-sufficiency. He became someone for people to trust for the abolitionist movement, lecturing around the world to draw attention to the injustices at hand.]]> 2018-02-26 02:18:37 UTC https://padlet.com/s27198118/oabvm3faqjeq/wish/235191623 s27198118 https://padlet.com/s27198118/oabvm3faqjeq/wish/235191858  For along time, many years, the Great Plains area was known as the Great American Desert, implying that the lands didn't have much to offer especially for economic reasons. The federal government relocated a number of Native American tribes to the Plains as further testimony to the area’s lack of appeal to white settlers.]]> 2018-02-26 02:20:41 UTC https://padlet.com/s27198118/oabvm3faqjeq/wish/235191858 s27198118 https://padlet.com/s27198118/oabvm3faqjeq/wish/235192601      The case of February 14, 1857, favored a moderate decision that ruled in favor of Sanford but did not consider the larger issues of Negro citizenship and the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise. The majority chose Justice Nelson as the writer of a decision that avoided these important but highly controversial issues, and Nelson went to work on it. When Nelson presented his opinion to the majority, however, he discovered that his "majority" opinion turned out to be only of himself. ]]> 2018-02-26 02:25:29 UTC https://padlet.com/s27198118/oabvm3faqjeq/wish/235192601 s27198118 https://padlet.com/s27198118/oabvm3faqjeq/wish/235193636  An abolitionist, and a group of John Browns supporters left their farmhouse hide-out en route to Harpers Ferry. They were on their way to go to town in the early hours of October 17th, Brown and his men captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal.  Brown had hopes that the local slave population would join the raid and through the raid’s success weapons would be supplied to slaves and freedom fighters throughout the country.]]> 2018-02-26 02:31:00 UTC https://padlet.com/s27198118/oabvm3faqjeq/wish/235193636 s27198118 https://padlet.com/s27198118/oabvm3faqjeq/wish/235194156      Lincoln was elected in 1860. Lincoln served as the primary catalyst of the American Civil War. He was definitely against slavery and tried to free slave but of course that started the civil war.]]> 2018-02-26 02:33:50 UTC https://padlet.com/s27198118/oabvm3faqjeq/wish/235194156 s27198118 https://padlet.com/s27198118/oabvm3faqjeq/wish/235195029 On April 12, 1861, the long-lasting tensions between the American North and South exploded as Southern troops in the seceding state of South Carolina fired on the Federal forces at Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor. The battle of Fort Sumter was what started the outbreak of Civil War in the United States. The attack provoked outrage in the North, consolidated support for the newly elected President Lincoln, and fueled the onset of the war that would at one point free slaves.]]> 2018-02-26 02:38:19 UTC https://padlet.com/s27198118/oabvm3faqjeq/wish/235195029