https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5 Made with an open mind en-us 2018-04-27 14:04:05 UTC 2025-12-26 18:45:32 UTC hello@padlet.com victoria_marshall https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256018011 An agreement made by congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state. It also created an imaginary line in which any future state north of this line would be a free state and south of the line would be a slave state.]]> 2018-04-27 14:05:03 UTC https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256018011 victoria_marshall https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256020822 anti slavery. congress decided to set aside indefinitely all anti slavery petitions.]]> 2018-04-27 14:10:48 UTC https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256020822 victoria_marshall https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256025307 Slaves would escape and then be named a fugitive. ]]> 2018-04-27 14:20:44 UTC https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256025307 victoria_marshall https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256025727 The gag rule kept the slavery issue out of congress for ten years. The Wilmot Proviso stated that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist. ]]> 2018-04-27 14:21:41 UTC https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256025727 victoria_marshall https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256028119 The south was open to slavery but the north wanted nothing to do with it.]]> 2018-04-27 14:26:30 UTC https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256028119 victoria_marshall https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256515413 admitted California as a free state and allowed the southwestern territories to be set up without restriction on slavery. The compromise was finally adopted after nine months of debate from Congress but tensions still remained. ]]> 2018-04-30 13:57:43 UTC https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256515413 victoria_marshall https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256529000 northerners did not want to enforce the act. southerners felt that the act did not do enough to ensure the return of their escaped property.]]> 2018-04-30 14:21:16 UTC https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256529000 victoria_marshall https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256532446 was passed in 1854 and created two new territories Kansas and Nebraska. ]]> 2018-04-30 14:26:47 UTC https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256532446 victoria_marshall https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256534981 Preston brooks savagely beat on the senate floor in retaliation for sumners speech against the raid on Lawrence, kansas. it took sumner over three years to recover. ]]> 2018-04-30 14:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256534981 victoria_marshall https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256657600 The most infamous floor brawl in the history of the U.S. House of Representatives erupted as Members debated the Kansas Territory’s pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution late into the night of February 5-6. Shortly before 2 a.m., Pennsylvania Republican Galusha Grow and South Carolina ]]> 2018-04-30 18:36:28 UTC https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256657600 victoria_marshall https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256658892 Sandford, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States]]> 2018-04-30 18:39:04 UTC https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256658892 victoria_marshall https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256660160 Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois state election campaign as among the most significant statements in American political history. The issues they discussed were not only of critical importance to the sectional conflict]]> 2018-04-30 18:42:10 UTC https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256660160 victoria_marshall https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256661121 On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a small army of 18 men into the small town of Harper's Ferry, Virginia. His plan was to instigate a major slave rebellion in the South. He would seize the arms and ammunition in the federal arsenal, arm slaves in the area and move south along the Appalachian Mountains, ]]> 2018-04-30 18:44:08 UTC https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256661121 victoria_marshall https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256661915 On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Douglas, Breckinridge, and Bell. He was the first president from the Republican Party.]]> 2018-04-30 18:45:49 UTC https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256661915 victoria_marshall https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256662454 The force of events moved very quickly upon the election of Lincoln. South Carolina acted first, calling for a convention to secede from the Union. State by state, conventions were held, and the Confederacy was formed. Within three months of Lincoln's election, seven states had seceded from the Union.]]> 2018-04-30 18:47:17 UTC https://padlet.com/victoria_marshall/osrffpmpvjz5/wish/256662454