https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb Tamia Benton, Shaniyah King, Yandel Rivas, Symphony Beckford en-us 2023-08-29 13:44:21 UTC 2023-08-31 21:16:33 UTC hello@padlet.com 0426148 https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679650369 The Westward Expansion was the movement of settlers towards the west coast of America as a result of the purchase of lands West of the Mississippi River.

The Westward Expansion of settlers led to the inauguration of the Missouri Compromise because the states had to come to an agreement on how the spread of slavery into western territories would be dealt with due to sectional differences.]]> 2023-08-31 11:28:16 UTC https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679650369 0426148 https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679650574 The Missouri Compromise was a federal legislation and series of compromises that admitted Missouri as a slave state, admitted Maine as a free state, and prohibited slavery in territories in the Louisiana Purchase north of the southern boundary of Missouri.

The Compromise of 1850 overturned and replaced the Missouri Compromise, after California threatened to disrupt balance in the Senate by applying for admission as a free state, leaving the issue of slavery unsettled.]]> 2023-08-31 11:28:33 UTC https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679650574 0426148 https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679650737 The Compromise of 1850 was a set of 5 laws that admitted California as a free state, applied popular sovereignty to states taken from Mexico during the Mexican American War, passed the Fugitive Slave Act, and prohibited the sale of slaves in Washington, D.C. 

The Fugitive Slave Act was one law passed apart of the Compromise of 1850 to address and resolve slavery and its expansion in new territories, which could possibly act as refugees for runaway slaves.]]> 2023-08-31 11:28:50 UTC https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679650737 0426148 https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679651817 The Republican Party was formed in 1854 by Northern leaders in direct response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act due to their shared opposition of slavery into new territories.

The formation of the Republican Party was connected to the Ostend Manifesto because the Ostend Manifesto further angered Northerners when U.S. diplomats from the South schemed to annex Cuba and turn into a slave state, spreading slavery into new territories.]]> 2023-08-31 11:30:38 UTC https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679651817 0426148 https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679651919 a law apart of the Compromise of 1850 that required free states in the North to aid in returning runaway slaves to their owners in the North.

The people of the North greatly resented the Fugitive Slave Act because they did not want to be forced to participate in the institution of slavery. This resentment of the Fugitive Slave Act could have inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe to publish Uncle Tom’s Cabin because Stowe could have wanted to further share the injustices of slavery to bring outrage amongst the North.]]> 2023-08-31 11:30:48 UTC https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679651919 yandelrivas039 https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679749888 On  October 16, 1859 John Brown, an  abolitionist, and a group of his supporters left their farmhouse hide-out en route to Harpers Ferry. On October 17th, Brown and his men captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal.

Harpers Ferry splintered the Democratic Party, messed up the leadership of the Republicans and produced the conditions that enabled Republican Abraham Lincoln to defeat two Democrats and a third-party candidate in the presidential election of 1860.

]]> 2023-08-31 13:09:07 UTC https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679749888 yandelrivas039 https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679752621 Abraham Lincoln (Republican) won the presidential election of 1860 in a debate against 4 others. Even though he received less than 40% of the popular vote he beat the other candidates. He was considered a container of slavery.

The election of 1860 shaped the future of the United States by heralding the end of slavery and marked by a time of unprecedented violence in the nation. Lincoln's reelection in 1864 determined that he would continue to guide the nation through the conflict.

]]> 2023-08-31 13:11:12 UTC https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679752621 0488844 https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679752946 Harriet Beecher Stowe shared ideas about the injustices of slavery, pushing back against dominant cultural beliefs about the physical and emotional capacities of black people.

• This led to the kansas-nebraska because it helped to create a sense of moral outrage against slavery across much of the North.

]]> 2023-08-31 13:11:28 UTC https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679752946 0488844 https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679753722 The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty.

• This led to the formation of the republican party because repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty.

]]> 2023-08-31 13:12:10 UTC https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679753722 0488844 https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679754389 a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas,” as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote.

• This led to the dred scott decision because it caused proslavery and antislavery activists to flood into the territories to sway the vote.

]]> 2023-08-31 13:12:44 UTC https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679754389 0488844 https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679755369 A document that stated that America wanted to purchase Cuba from Spain.

• This led to the act/bleeding Kansas because it proposed a shift in foreign policy, justifying the use of force to seize Cuba in the name of national security.

]]> 2023-08-31 13:13:33 UTC https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679755369 0664176 https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679755446 The 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that provided their services in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The unit was the second African-American regiment. The 54th regiment influenced northern people to enlist African American in the military which is one of the forces used in the battle of Gettysburg ]]> 2023-08-31 13:13:37 UTC https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679755446 0488844 https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679756357 upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.

• This led to freeport doctrine because Douglas's response in which he argued that slavery could only exist in places with support from local police regulations.

]]> 2023-08-31 13:14:20 UTC https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679756357 yandelrivas039 https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679756418 The American Civil War was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America (FIGHT BETWEEN THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH) The conflict began primarily as a result of the long-standing disagreement over slavery.

From the first days of the Civil War, enslaved people had acted to secure their own liberty. The Emancipation Proclamation confirmed their insistence that the war for the Union must become a war for freedom. It added moral force to the Union cause and strengthened the Union both militarily and politically.]]> 2023-08-31 13:14:21 UTC https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679756418 0664176 https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679758608 The Battle of Gettysburg was a major battle in the American Civil War fought by Union and Confederate forces between July 1 and July 3, 1863, in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The battle of Vicksburg cut off many supplies for the Confederate army and the battle of Gettysburg killed so many of Confederate troops that he could no longer attempt an attack on Union soil.]]> 2023-08-31 13:16:03 UTC https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679758608 0488844 https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679758801 a territory could prevent slavery by failing to pass favorable legislation.

• This led to the John Brown’s raid on harpers ferry because it insisted that the residents of a territory could still ban slavery through local laws.

]]> 2023-08-31 13:16:13 UTC https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679758801 0664176 https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679762573 Vicksburg was the last major Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River; therefore, capturing it completed the Anaconda Plan. The successful ending of the Vicksburg campaign significantly degraded the ability of the Confederacy to maintain its war effort.]]> 2023-08-31 13:19:11 UTC https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679762573 yandelrivas039 https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679764122 President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of the civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."]]> 2023-08-31 13:20:09 UTC https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679764122 0664176 https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679779490 Sherman's March to the Sea (also known as the Savannah campaign or simply Sherman's March) was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864, by William Tecumseh Sherman, major general of the Union Army.]]> 2023-08-31 13:30:55 UTC https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679779490 0664176 https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679789051 The surrender of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia sets the stage for the conclusion of the Civil War. Through the lenient terms, Confederate troops are paroled and allowed to return to their homes while Union soldiers are ordered to refrain from overt celebration or taunting.]]> 2023-08-31 13:36:13 UTC https://padlet.com/0426148/qi7jm3qoi5z5jrwb/wish/2679789051