"The Gathering Storm- By: Shauna Saylor by Shauna Saylor https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg Made with a taste for adventure en-us 2018-04-27 13:09:32 UTC 2018-05-04 13:16:19 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Clouds.png Missouri Compromise 1820 shauna_saylor https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/255995047 An agreement made by congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state. ]]> 2018-04-27 13:19:33 UTC https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/255995047 The Missouri Compromise Unravels shauna_saylor https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/255999063 The issue of slavery was becoming a big problem again, this led to the Second Great Awaking. Congress refused to consider Johns proposal.  ]]> 2018-04-27 13:27:30 UTC https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/255999063 Fugitive Slaves shauna_saylor https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/257629817 Slaves continue to rebel by running away. Slaveholders demanded that congress pass a fugitive slave law to help them recapture their property. ]]> 2018-05-03 13:08:33 UTC https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/257629817 Slavery in the territories shauna_saylor https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/257634028 Wilmot Proviso was was created by James Polk to ask for funds for the war with Mexico. Southerners in Congress strongly opposed the the bill, in the end the Wilmot bill passed the house but rejected by the senate. ]]> 2018-05-03 13:17:22 UTC https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/257634028 Statehood in California shauna_saylor https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/257638435 For three years congress debated what to do about slavery in the Mexico territory. In 1849 California applied to the Union as a free state, the North welcomed them, but the south rejected their request. Northerners denounced slavery as a crime against humanity. ]]> 2018-05-03 13:25:51 UTC https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/257638435 The Compromise of 1850 shauna_saylor https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/257643298 This was the agreements made in order to admit California as a free state. The agreements allowed New Mexico and Utah to decide if they want to allow slavery, to outlaw the slave trade in Washington D.C. , creating a stronger fugitive slave law. ]]> 2018-05-03 13:35:01 UTC https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/257643298 The Fugitive Slave Act shauna_saylor https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/257669302 A person arrested as a runaway slave had almost no legal rights. Northerners refusal to support the act infuriated slaveholders, making the enforcement of the act almost impossible]]> 2018-05-03 14:19:03 UTC https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/257669302 The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854 shauna_saylor https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/257672357 This Act was passed in 1854 and created two new territories, Kansas and Nebraska. It abolished the Missouri Compromise by leaving it up to the settlers to vote on whether to permit slavery in the two territories.]]> 2018-05-03 14:24:29 UTC https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/257672357 Bloodshed in Kansas shauna_saylor https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/257673238 Armed invaders burned a hotel, looted several homes, and tossed the printing press of an abolitionist newspaper into the Kaw River. The raid on Lawrence caused a wave of outrage in the North.]]> 2018-05-03 14:26:00 UTC https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/257673238 Violence in Congress shauna_saylor https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/257674886 South Carolina representative Preston Brooks, attacked Sumner in the Senate, beating him with his metal-tipped cane until it broke in half. Most Northerners viewed the beating as another example of Southern brutality. ]]> 2018-05-03 14:28:48 UTC https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/257674886 The Dred-Scott Decision shauna_saylor https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/257676848 Taney argued that slaves were property and that the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution said that property could not be taken from people without due process of law. But rather than banning slavery he said Congress had a constitutional responsibility to protect the property rights of slaveholders in a territory.


 
]]> 2018-05-03 14:32:22 UTC https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/257676848 Lincoln- Douglas Debates shauna_saylor https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/257677173  Douglas argued that the Dred Scott decision had put the slavery issue to rest, but Lincoln disagreed.]]> 2018-05-03 14:32:51 UTC https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/257677173 John Brown's Raid shauna_saylor https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/257677549  Rather than wait for Congress to act, Brown planned to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.]]> 2018-05-03 14:33:32 UTC https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/257677549 Abraham Lincoln Elected as President shauna_saylor https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/257678647  Lincoln sailed to victory, but it was an odd victory. Lincoln won the presidential election with just 40 percent of the votes, all of them cast in the North]]> 2018-05-03 14:35:37 UTC https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/257678647 The South Secedes from the Union shauna_saylor https://padlet.com/shauna_saylor/vtse6a493mhg/wish/258015735 in February 1861, those states joined together as the Confederate States of America.


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