https://padlet.com/lynettedong23/uclmqac32lnvrscn A timeline on the events that lead up to the civil war. From fallen compromises, to new slave laws, to violence in congress. And finally, the south seceding from the Union. en-us 2020-05-10 01:21:05 UTC 2025-06-19 16:11:29 UTC hello@padlet.com lynettedong23 https://padlet.com/lynettedong23/uclmqac32lnvrscn/wish/562052366 It was a compromise for Missouri to be a slave states and Maine a free state. This way both slave and free states had equal power.]]> 2020-05-10 02:34:09 UTC https://padlet.com/lynettedong23/uclmqac32lnvrscn/wish/562052366 lynettedong23 https://padlet.com/lynettedong23/uclmqac32lnvrscn/wish/562052489 During the 1830s there were many abolitionists arguing that Congress did not have the power to decide if a state was free or slave. So in 1839 Congress voted that all antislavery petitions be set aside. Citizens call this the "Gag Rule" because "gagged" the debate over slavery.]]> 2020-05-10 02:34:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lynettedong23/uclmqac32lnvrscn/wish/562052489 lynettedong23 https://padlet.com/lynettedong23/uclmqac32lnvrscn/wish/562052574 Many slaves escaped with help from people in the North. Southerners saw this as their property being stolen so they demanded Congress pass a law against fugitive slaves.]]> 2020-05-10 02:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lynettedong23/uclmqac32lnvrscn/wish/562052574 lynettedong23 https://padlet.com/lynettedong23/uclmqac32lnvrscn/wish/562052643 In 1850, Henry Clay proposed a new compromise. This compromise would have something for everyone. California would be added as a free state, the New Mexico and Utah territories would be able to decide if they wanted to allow slavery, and he ended slave trade in Washington D.C. Slaveholders would also get their fugitive slave law that they demanded.]]> 2020-05-10 02:34:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lynettedong23/uclmqac32lnvrscn/wish/562052643 lynettedong23 https://padlet.com/lynettedong23/uclmqac32lnvrscn/wish/562052728 The Fugitive Slave Act made Southerners and Northerners both upset. Southerners felt that the act did not do enough to ensure they would get their property back. Northerners did not want to have to enforce the act.]]> 2020-05-10 02:35:10 UTC https://padlet.com/lynettedong23/uclmqac32lnvrscn/wish/562052728 lynettedong23 https://padlet.com/lynettedong23/uclmqac32lnvrscn/wish/562052907 The Nebraska-Kansas Act created two new territories. They were called Nebraska and Kansas. Northerners were angered by this act because it abolished the Missouri Compromise.]]> 2020-05-10 02:35:37 UTC https://padlet.com/lynettedong23/uclmqac32lnvrscn/wish/562052907 lynettedong23 https://padlet.com/lynettedong23/uclmqac32lnvrscn/wish/562053056 Northerners and Southerners flooded into Kansas. Eventually their differences on slavery turned violent. Invaders burned a hotel, stole from several homes, and threw the printing presses of two abolitionist newspapers.]]> 2020-05-10 02:36:03 UTC https://padlet.com/lynettedong23/uclmqac32lnvrscn/wish/562053056 lynettedong23 https://padlet.com/lynettedong23/uclmqac32lnvrscn/wish/562053340 Senator Charles Sumner shared his theory that Senator Stephen Douglas had plotted with Southerners to make Kansas a slave state in a passionate speech. Many people praised Sumner for his speech but southerners were outraged. Two days after the speech the South Carolina representative, Preston Brooks, beat Sumner with his cane so brutally that it took Sumner three years to recover.]]> 2020-05-10 02:36:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lynettedong23/uclmqac32lnvrscn/wish/562053340 lynettedong23 https://padlet.com/lynettedong23/uclmqac32lnvrscn/wish/562053375 Dred Scott had once accompanied his owner to Wisconsin which was a free state so Scott believed that he was now a free man. He decided to sue his owner for his freedom in the Supreme Court. The court ruled that Scott had no right to sue.]]> 2020-05-10 02:37:03 UTC https://padlet.com/lynettedong23/uclmqac32lnvrscn/wish/562053375 lynettedong23 https://padlet.com/lynettedong23/uclmqac32lnvrscn/wish/562053456 In the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Douglas argued that the Dred-Scott Decision had helped calm the slavery issue. Lincoln, on the other hand, disagreed saying that the people's sentiments towards slavery is the problem. Even though Lincoln lost the debates, his words helped him become a national figure.]]> 2020-05-10 02:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lynettedong23/uclmqac32lnvrscn/wish/562053456 lynettedong23 https://padlet.com/lynettedong23/uclmqac32lnvrscn/wish/562053527 In the 1860 presidential election the country was very divided. Republicans were behind Lincoln, North Democrats were behind Stephen Douglas, and southern democrats supported John C. Breckinridge. With the votes split three ways, Lincoln won.]]> 2020-05-10 02:37:33 UTC https://padlet.com/lynettedong23/uclmqac32lnvrscn/wish/562053527 lynettedong23 https://padlet.com/lynettedong23/uclmqac32lnvrscn/wish/562053609 After the election, there was talk of a secession. Worried, a group of senators created a committee to find an alternate solution. In Illinois, President Lincoln was asked whether he would support a compromise on slavery. Lincoln replied with a firm no. In South Carolina, delegates were gathered to leave the union. After South Carolina six more states followed. Those seven states became the Confederacy States of America.]]> 2020-05-10 02:37:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lynettedong23/uclmqac32lnvrscn/wish/562053609