https://padlet.com/sjminer1/ronc7vi2lg2pqon2 en-us 2021-12-22 01:01:13 UTC 2021-12-22 04:00:42 UTC hello@padlet.com http://standardflags.com/shop/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Polyester-American-flag-closeup-angle-1.jpg sjminer1 https://padlet.com/sjminer1/ronc7vi2lg2pqon2/wish/1959771432 Formed amidst the election of 1848, in the aftermath of the Mexican American War, the Free Soil Party believed in limiting slavery from expanding into the West. They wanted to protect jobs from competing with the unpaid labour of slaves. They eventually merged into the Republican Party.]]> 2021-12-22 02:08:41 UTC https://padlet.com/sjminer1/ronc7vi2lg2pqon2/wish/1959771432 sjminer1 https://padlet.com/sjminer1/ronc7vi2lg2pqon2/wish/1959798396 The Compromise was a collection of 5 different bills, intended to address the division of states into free or slave states. The debates broke out into fist fights with drawn weapons.]]> 2021-12-22 02:28:06 UTC https://padlet.com/sjminer1/ronc7vi2lg2pqon2/wish/1959798396 sjminer1 https://padlet.com/sjminer1/ronc7vi2lg2pqon2/wish/1959824397 Written to create sympathy for the enslaved and support for the abolitionist movement. The book followed the life of a slave and was the 2nd best selling book of the 19th Century, just after The Bible.]]> 2021-12-22 02:46:19 UTC https://padlet.com/sjminer1/ronc7vi2lg2pqon2/wish/1959824397 sjminer1 https://padlet.com/sjminer1/ronc7vi2lg2pqon2/wish/1959844243 After debates over slavery divide the Whig Party, previous members formed the Republican Party. The Republicans were popular in the North for their economically motivated abolitionism.]]> 2021-12-22 03:01:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sjminer1/ronc7vi2lg2pqon2/wish/1959844243 sjminer1 https://padlet.com/sjminer1/ronc7vi2lg2pqon2/wish/1959862196 An act which established Kansas and Nebraska as official states. The act was intended to address the issue of slave versus free statehood, but did so by adopting a policy of popular sovereignty for the new states, in spite of the Missouri Compromise.]]> 2021-12-22 03:16:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sjminer1/ronc7vi2lg2pqon2/wish/1959862196 sjminer1 https://padlet.com/sjminer1/ronc7vi2lg2pqon2/wish/1959872507 Dred Scott was once a slave, but had been living in the North which should have qualified him to be free. However the court ruled that he was still a slave, and that he had no legal right to testify in the first place. This greatly increased tension between the North and South because it made it clear that the laws regarding slavery in the North were no longer being enforced or recognized.]]> 2021-12-22 03:24:11 UTC https://padlet.com/sjminer1/ronc7vi2lg2pqon2/wish/1959872507 sjminer1 https://padlet.com/sjminer1/ronc7vi2lg2pqon2/wish/1959885333 A series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephen Douglas over the issue of slavery in the United States. Lincoln was of the stance that it was a major and immediate issue, while Douglas argued that it was not as pressing of an issue. It was amidst these debates that Lincoln famously stated that "A house divided against itself cannot stand."]]> 2021-12-22 03:35:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sjminer1/ronc7vi2lg2pqon2/wish/1959885333 sjminer1 https://padlet.com/sjminer1/ronc7vi2lg2pqon2/wish/1959895797 A small civil war fought over the issues of slavery following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The fight was over determining whether or not Kansas would allow slavery, the radical abolitionists were led by John Brown.]]> 2021-12-22 03:44:07 UTC https://padlet.com/sjminer1/ronc7vi2lg2pqon2/wish/1959895797 sjminer1 https://padlet.com/sjminer1/ronc7vi2lg2pqon2/wish/1959903731 John Brown led a violent slave revolt in which he and his men stormed an armory. The revolt was intended to inspire uprisings across the country. While it planted seeds of fear in the Southerners, Brown and many of his men were captured, and he was publicly hanged in December of 1859.]]> 2021-12-22 03:51:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sjminer1/ronc7vi2lg2pqon2/wish/1959903731 sjminer1 https://padlet.com/sjminer1/ronc7vi2lg2pqon2/wish/1959910751 Lincoln ran a very successful campaign following the Lincoln-Douglas debates. He ran against Hannibal Hamlin, and both ran for the Republican Party. Lincoln was the first Republican president, and while he was well-received in the North, the Southerners viewed his election as a clear sign of aggression. His election was ultimately the immediate cause of the secession of the Southern confederacy. ]]> 2021-12-22 03:58:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sjminer1/ronc7vi2lg2pqon2/wish/1959910751