https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38 Made with a taste for adventure en-us 2018-04-27 13:54:10 UTC 2018-05-01 12:58:00 UTC hello@padlet.com haiden_earlywine https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256016542 When congress returned to Washington in 1820, it took up the question of the state hood of Missouri again and they had a deadlock about it. the compromise kept the Union together, but it pleased few people. Meanwhile, John Quincy Adams recognized the compromise had not settled the future of slavery in the United States as a whole.]]> 2018-04-27 14:02:06 UTC https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256016542 haiden_earlywine https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256023603 During the 1830's, abolitionists flooded congress with antislavery petitions, but they were told that congress had no power to interface with slavery in the states. southerners thought that abolitionists were attacking their way of life because the south need the slaves so they can have working plantations and be able to make loads of money.]]> 2018-04-27 14:16:56 UTC https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256023603 haiden_earlywine https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256026220 Nat Turner's rebellion was one of the largest slave revolts, but individual slave also continued to rebel by running away to the north for their freedom. To slaveholders these northerners were nothing more than bank robbers because they saw a slave as a valuable piece of property.]]> 2018-04-27 14:22:44 UTC https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256026220 haiden_earlywine https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256029814 The gag rule kept the slavery issue out of congress for ten years, then in 1846, president James Polk sent a bill to congress asking for funds for the war with Mexico. Wilmot Proviso soon later proposed an amendment that the southerners strongly opposed and say that they have no right to decide weather slaveholders could take their property]]> 2018-04-27 14:29:55 UTC https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256029814 haiden_earlywine https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256032522 For the next three years, congress couldn't decide what to do with the territory given by mexico to either make it slave territory or non slave territory. then late in 1849 California applied to be in the Union as a frees state]]> 2018-04-27 14:35:16 UTC https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256032522 haiden_earlywine https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256515556 Clay's compromise pleased most about everyone by admitting California as a free state into the union. In September of 1850, congress finally adopted the plan and most Americans were glad that the crisis ended but southerners remained wary of the compromise]]> 2018-04-30 13:57:56 UTC https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256515556 haiden_earlywine https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256525630 People in the north and the south were unhappy with the Act for different reasons, the north didn't like it because they did not want to enforce the Act, the southerners felt the Act didn't ensure return of their escaped property. under this Act any slave caught was thought to have no rights at all but some slaves started to run to Canada so they didn't have the risk of getting caught]]> 2018-04-30 14:15:09 UTC https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256525630 haiden_earlywine https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256530375 The Kansas-Nebraska Act hit the north like a thunderbolt and they were once again haunted by visions of slavery marching across the plains. soon later they started saying that the climates were not suited for slave labor but the northerners started to studied maps and they weren't so sure that they were correct]]> 2018-04-30 14:23:37 UTC https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256530375 haiden_earlywine https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256535345 When the Kansas-Nebraska was passed settlers started to pour into Kansas to look for good farm land while others were trying to support or oppose slavery. The struggle over slavery soon turned violent, on May 21, 1856 pro slavery settlers and so called "border ruffians" from Missouri invaded Lawrence,  Nebraska.]]> 2018-04-30 14:32:22 UTC https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256535345 haiden_earlywine https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256814993 The violence of Kansas greatly disturbed senator Charles Sumner Massachusetts, to Sumner, it was proof that Douglas had plotted with southerners to make Kansas a slave state. In 1856, Sumner voiced his suspicion in a speech called "The Crime Against Kansas", in harsh, shocking language, Sumner described the "Crime Against Kansas" a violent assault on a innocent state.]]> 2018-05-01 12:21:01 UTC https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256814993 haiden_earlywine https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256816901 Years earlier, Scott was traveling with his owner to Wisconsin, were slavery was banned by the Missouri Compromise. When he returned to Missouri, he went to court to say that he was a free man because he had stayed in Wisconsin. The Dred Scott decision was favored by slaveholders because they hoped that the issue of slavery had been settled and in their favor ]]> 2018-05-01 12:28:25 UTC https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256816901 haiden_earlywine https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256818696 Lincoln's opponent was Senator Stephen Douglas, an Illinois Senator that saw no reason why the nation couldn't be half slave and half free. Lincoln lost the election, however, the debates were widely reported, and they helped him become a national figure.]]> 2018-05-01 12:34:42 UTC https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256818696 haiden_earlywine https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256820025 While Lincoln was fighting slaver over politics, John Brown adopted a more extreme approach, Brown planned to seize the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. In 1859 he launched his raid on the arsenal and most of his men were either killed of captured, Brown himself was convicted of treason.]]> 2018-05-01 12:39:23 UTC https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256820025 haiden_earlywine https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256821483 When this opposition divided three ways, Lincoln sailed to victory, but it was an odd victory. Lincoln won the election with only 40% of the votes, all of them cast in the north. For white southerners, the election of 1860 brought an unmistakable message.]]> 2018-05-01 12:43:58 UTC https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256821483 haiden_earlywine https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256822704 In the weeks of the election, secession filled the air. Alarmed senators searched for another compromise that will keep the nation together.The senator committee held their first meeting on December 20, 1860. they knew it was going to be hard to find a compromise to keep the nation together. Lincoln answer was clear, he was not going to interfere with slavery in the south]]> 2018-05-01 12:47:59 UTC https://padlet.com/haiden_earlywine/rgaqpgo1cg38/wish/256822704