https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51 Made with love en-us 2018-04-27 13:57:03 UTC 2018-05-03 14:36:58 UTC hello@padlet.com vanessa_black2 https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/256020263 In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a free state.]]> 2018-04-27 14:09:36 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/256020263 vanessa_black2 https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/256023623 John Quincy Adams proposed a constitutional amendment saying that no one could be born into slavery after 1842. But, the "gag rule" prevented consideration of the antislavery proposal by Quincy Adams.  ]]> 2018-04-27 14:16:59 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/256023623 vanessa_black2 https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/256814069 The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1739 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory. ]]> 2018-05-01 12:17:17 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/256814069 vanessa_black2 https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/256815549 It was an agreement between the pro- and anti-slavery factions regulating slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery in new states north of the border of the Arkansas territory, excluding Missouri. ]]> 2018-05-01 12:23:17 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/256815549 vanessa_black2 https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/256817335 Californians sought statehood and, after heated debate in the U.S. Congress arising out of the slavery issue, California entered the Union as a free, non slavery state by the compromise of 1850. California became the 31st state on September 9, 1850.]]> 2018-05-01 12:29:54 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/256817335 vanessa_black2 https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/256819251 The compromise of 1850 consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery. In 1849 California requested permission to enter the Union as a free state, potentially upsetting the balance between the free and slave states in the U.S. Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and advert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the fugitive slave act was amended and the slave trade in Washington D.C., was abolished. Furthermore, California entered the union as a free state and  a territorial  government was created in Utah. In addition, an act was passed settling a boundary dispute between Texas and New Mexico that also established a territorial government in New Mexico.]]> 2018-05-01 12:36:42 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/256819251 vanessa_black2 https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/256871560 The fugitive slave act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-soldiers. Abolitionists nicknamed it the "bloodhound Law" for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves ]]> 2018-05-01 14:33:39 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/256871560 vanessa_black2 https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/256999317 The Nebraska- Kansas Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves weather or not to allow slavery within their borders. The act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery North of latitude 36'30. ]]> 2018-05-01 18:48:24 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/256999317 vanessa_black2 https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/257002723 Some settlers moved to Kansas either to support or to oppose slavery. In the South, towns sent their young men to Kansas, and in the North abolitionists raised money to send weapons to antislavery settlers.]]> 2018-05-01 18:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/257002723 vanessa_black2 https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/257269283 Preston Brooks savagely beat Charles Sumner on the Senate floor in retaliation for Sumner's speech against the raid on Lawrence, Kansas. It took Sumner over three years to recover.]]> 2018-05-02 14:35:01 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/257269283 vanessa_black2 https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/257402804 Dred Scott sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court. The Court ruled that African Americans had no right to sue in federal courts and also struck down the Missouri compromise, making slavery legal in all the territories. ]]> 2018-05-02 18:39:12 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/257402804 vanessa_black2 https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/257405237 A series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephan Douglas, who were candidates in the Illinois race for U.S. senator, in which slavery was the main issue.]]> 2018-05-02 18:44:12 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/257405237 vanessa_black2 https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/257407575 U.S. marines were storming the arsenal at Harper's Ferry that was raided by John Brown and his men. Brown was charged with treason, convicted, and then executed by hanging. ]]> 2018-05-02 18:48:50 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/257407575 vanessa_black2 https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/257672776 In 1860, Lincoln won the party's presidential nomination. In the November 1860 election, Lincoln again faced Douglas, who represented the Northern faction of a heavily divided Democratic Party, as well as Breckenridge and Bell.  ]]> 2018-05-03 14:25:12 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/257672776 vanessa_black2 https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/257676739 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 Lincolns election, seven states has seceded from the Union.  ]]> 2018-05-03 14:32:13 UTC https://padlet.com/vanessa_black2/t46rvpkkdf51/wish/257676739