https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm en-us 2022-01-27 17:48:06 UTC 2022-02-02 17:12:21 UTC hello@padlet.com kcastro31 https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2018310487 The Fugitive Slave Act was made as apart of the Compromise of 1850. This act forced any federal official who did not arrest a freedom seeker to pay a fine. This was the most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850 and caused many North Americans to increase efforts against slavery. ]]> 2022-01-28 17:14:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2018310487 kcastro31 https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2018320731 In 1854, the Kansas Nebraska Act was passed allowing the Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide for themselves using popular sovereignty (voting) whether they wanted to be free or practice enslavement. By 1856, Kansas had become such a violent state to the point where it was nicknamed "Bleeding Kansas"]]> 2022-01-28 17:20:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2018320731 kcastro31 https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2018326825 Thomas Jefferson buys the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million. This doubles the size of the United States and provides a large area. This Led to the civil war]]> 2022-01-28 17:24:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2018326825 kcastro31 https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2018331192 Congress makes a law to move Native Americans from the Southeast to the west of the Mississippi River.]]> 2022-01-28 17:26:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2018331192 kcastro31 https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2018338203 Became the third president of the untied states and presided over the South's creation of its own armed forces and acquisition of weapons]]> 2022-01-28 17:30:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2018338203 kcastro31 https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2018343495 Mexican troops attack the Alamo Mission killing all but two Texans. This spurs the Texans on in the Texas Revolution. ]]> 2022-01-28 17:33:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2018343495 kcastro31 https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2018351331 The Cherokee Nation is forced to march from the east coast to Oklahoma. Many thousands die along the way.


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People begin to travel west in wagon trains on the Oregon Trail. Around 300,000 people would take the trail over the next 20 years.]]> 2022-01-28 17:40:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2018358715 kcastro31 https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2018370707 Journalist John O'Sullivan first uses the term "Manifest Destiny" to describe the westward expansion of the United States.]]> 2022-01-28 17:47:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2018370707 kcastro31 https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2018377066 Explorers Lewis and Clark map out areas of the Louisiana Purchase and eventually reach the Pacific Ocean. This Led to the civil war]]> 2022-01-28 17:50:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2018377066 kcastro31 https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2018534507 James Marshall discovers gold at Sutter's Mill. Soon word is out and people rush to California to strike it rich.]]> 2022-01-28 19:23:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2018534507 kcastro31 https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2018556847 The U.S. government offers up free land to farmers who agree to live on the land for five years and make improvements to the land. Many people rush to places like Oklahoma to claim their lannd.]]> 2022-01-28 19:38:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2018556847 kcastro31 https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2021765173 The Dred Scott case, also known as Dred Scott v. Sandford, was a decade-long fight for freedom by a Black enslaved man named Dred Scott. The case persisted through several courts and ultimately reached the U.S. Supreme Court, whose decision incensed abolitionists, gave momentum to the anti-slavery movement and served as a stepping stone to the Civil War.]]> 2022-01-31 17:05:00 UTC https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2021765173 kcastro31 https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2021770351 Suddenly cotton became a lucrative crop and a major export for the South. However, because of this increased demand, many more slaves were needed to grow cotton and harvest the fields. Slave ownership became a fiery national issue and eventually led to the Civil War.]]> 2022-01-31 17:07:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2021770351 kcastro31 https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2021780041 Nat Turner's Rebellion, also known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a rebellion of enslaved Virginians that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831, led by Nat Turner. The rebels killed between 55 and 65 people, at least 51 of whom were White.]]> 2022-01-31 17:11:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2021780041 kcastro31 https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2021788349 Erie Canal had a major impact on the outcome of the American Civil War by transporting food and material and strengthened economic and social ties between the northeastern seaboard and the Midwest led to the civil war ]]> 2022-01-31 17:14:36 UTC https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2021788349 kcastro31 https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2021802867 Territories obtained in the Mexican American War of 1848 caused further sectional strife over the expansion of slavery in the ante bellum period. ... The ideological seeds of the American Civil War, in turn, were sown during that conflict.]]> 2022-01-31 17:20:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2021802867 kcastro31 https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2021821495 Territories obtained in the Mexican American War of 1848 caused further sectional strife over the expansion of slavery in the ante bellum period. ... The ideological seeds of the American Civil War, in turn, were sown during that conflict.

]]> 2022-01-31 17:27:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2021821495 kcastro31 https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2021857421 Abrahams election was the tipping point into sending the nation into war. ]]> 2022-01-31 17:42:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2021857421 kcastro31 https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2025861864 Violence occurred on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Congressman Preston Brooks, who favored enslavement, attacked Sen. Charles Sumner with a cane after Sumner had given a speech condemning the pro-enslavement forces for the violence occurring in Kansas.]]> 2022-02-02 17:12:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kcastro31/rsnjo8cbmbr4gcbm/wish/2025861864