https://padlet.com/freelandj2381/v6jx18ez5hl909ee The story leading up to the Civil War en-us 2020-05-05 16:47:22 UTC 2020-05-05 19:03:27 UTC hello@padlet.com freelandj2381 https://padlet.com/freelandj2381/v6jx18ez5hl909ee/wish/552688655 Missouri wanted to enter the Union, but Congress was not sure if it would be a slave state or a free state, since it was in both territories. They came up with an agreement saying it would be both and slavery would be banned above an imaginary line.]]> 2020-05-05 16:53:39 UTC https://padlet.com/freelandj2381/v6jx18ez5hl909ee/wish/552688655 freelandj2381 https://padlet.com/freelandj2381/v6jx18ez5hl909ee/wish/552698850 The Seconds Great Awakening came and urged people to do good, which was stop slavery. And so abolitionists started causing problems and were unhappy with the slavery situation.]]> 2020-05-05 16:57:29 UTC https://padlet.com/freelandj2381/v6jx18ez5hl909ee/wish/552698850 freelandj2381 https://padlet.com/freelandj2381/v6jx18ez5hl909ee/wish/552706740 During this time, slaves would run away from their owners to the North, where they could be free. Their owners were frustrated and saw this as property and money being lost, and they demanded a law to help recapture their property.]]> 2020-05-05 17:00:26 UTC https://padlet.com/freelandj2381/v6jx18ez5hl909ee/wish/552706740 freelandj2381 https://padlet.com/freelandj2381/v6jx18ez5hl909ee/wish/552714305 California wanted to be a state, but would it be a slave state or a free state? This compromise said that California would be a free state, but the New Mexico and Utah territories would be chosen as a slave or free state by the people. Also, slave trade in Washington D.C. would be banned and there would be a fugitive slave law.]]> 2020-05-05 17:03:07 UTC https://padlet.com/freelandj2381/v6jx18ez5hl909ee/wish/552714305 freelandj2381 https://padlet.com/freelandj2381/v6jx18ez5hl909ee/wish/552725128 Kansas and Nebraska wanted to become states of the Union, and so it was decided that, like New Mexico and Utah, that whether the state was a slave state or a free state was by popular sovereignty.]]> 2020-05-05 17:06:56 UTC https://padlet.com/freelandj2381/v6jx18ez5hl909ee/wish/552725128 freelandj2381 https://padlet.com/freelandj2381/v6jx18ez5hl909ee/wish/552733511 Neither Northerners or or Southerners liked the fugitive slave law. So it was said that anyone who helped a slave escape or refused to help look for an escaped slave would be jailed.]]> 2020-05-05 17:09:45 UTC https://padlet.com/freelandj2381/v6jx18ez5hl909ee/wish/552733511 freelandj2381 https://padlet.com/freelandj2381/v6jx18ez5hl909ee/wish/552743910 After the Kansas-Nebraska Act, many peaceful farmers moved to Kansas, but some people went to Kansas to support or oppose slavery and it ended up violently. Pro-slavery people attacked the anti-slavery government in Kansas, then abolitionists hacked five pro-slavery men to death with swords.]]> 2020-05-05 17:13:30 UTC https://padlet.com/freelandj2381/v6jx18ez5hl909ee/wish/552743910 freelandj2381 https://padlet.com/freelandj2381/v6jx18ez5hl909ee/wish/552773878 Senator Sumner voiced suspicions about Senator Douglas in a philippic in which he believed that Douglas had plotted with Southerners to make Kansas a slave state. In a fir of anger, Preston Brooks beat Sumner in retaliation for his speech until he broke his cane on Sumner's head.]]> 2020-05-05 17:24:22 UTC https://padlet.com/freelandj2381/v6jx18ez5hl909ee/wish/552773878 freelandj2381 https://padlet.com/freelandj2381/v6jx18ez5hl909ee/wish/552786813 Dred Scott sued his master because he believed he was a free slave since he went to a free state. The court decided that he could not sue for his freedom because no African American could ever become a citizen, and second, he was not free because the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.]]> 2020-05-05 17:29:17 UTC https://padlet.com/freelandj2381/v6jx18ez5hl909ee/wish/552786813 freelandj2381 https://padlet.com/freelandj2381/v6jx18ez5hl909ee/wish/552793804 Douglas was against Lincoln in the Senator Race, and he saw no reason as to why the state could be half slavery and half free. Lincoln challenged him to a debate, and said that slavery was a moral debate between those that see it as right and those that see it as wrong; this speech made him a national figure.]]> 2020-05-05 17:31:48 UTC https://padlet.com/freelandj2381/v6jx18ez5hl909ee/wish/552793804 freelandj2381 https://padlet.com/freelandj2381/v6jx18ez5hl909ee/wish/552800488 Lincoln won 40 % of the votes although eh was not on ten states' ballots in the South. It showed that the South was in the minority and they feared slavery would be abolished. ]]> 2020-05-05 17:34:09 UTC https://padlet.com/freelandj2381/v6jx18ez5hl909ee/wish/552800488 freelandj2381 https://padlet.com/freelandj2381/v6jx18ez5hl909ee/wish/552803207 The Southerners were so afraid of slavery being abolished, they left the Union. Their new country was called the Confederate States of America.]]> 2020-05-05 17:35:13 UTC https://padlet.com/freelandj2381/v6jx18ez5hl909ee/wish/552803207