https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy en-us 2018-04-27 14:00:38 UTC 2024-12-08 15:09:34 UTC hello@padlet.com thomas_skaggs https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/256018079 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. It also created an imaginary line in which any future state north of this line would be a free state and south of the line would be a slave state. ]]> 2018-04-27 14:05:12 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/256018079 thomas_skaggs https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/256021922 Anti-slavery. Congress decided to set aside indefinitely all anti-slavery petitions.]]> 2018-04-27 14:13:00 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/256021922 thomas_skaggs https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/256514612 Slaves would escape and then be named a fugitive. ]]> 2018-04-30 13:56:24 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/256514612 thomas_skaggs https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/256520638 The gag rule kept the slavery issue out of Congress for ten years. The Wilmot Proviso stated that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist. ]]> 2018-04-30 14:06:30 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/256520638 thomas_skaggs https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/256525188 The South was open to slavery but the north wanted nothing to do with it.]]> 2018-04-30 14:14:29 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/256525188 thomas_skaggs https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/256532457 California got admitted as a free state. Southwestern territories to be set up without slavery. The compromise was finally adapted after the ninth month and tension still remained. ]]> 2018-04-30 14:26:48 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/256532457 thomas_skaggs https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/256532663 Northerners didn't want to enforce the act.Southerner's  felt that the act didn't do enough to ensure the return of their escaped property. ]]> 2018-04-30 14:27:13 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/256532663 thomas_skaggs https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/256532838 Was passed in 1854 and created two new territories Kansas and Nebraska.]]> 2018-04-30 14:27:38 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/256532838 thomas_skaggs https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/257404723 Preston Brooks savagely beaten on the senate floor in retaliation for Sumners speech against the raid on Lawrence, Kansas, it took Sumner over three years to recover.  ]]> 2018-05-02 18:43:07 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/257404723 thomas_skaggs https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/257659072 The most infamous floor brawl in the history of the U.S house of Representatives erupted as members debated the Kansas Territory's pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution late into the night of February 5-6.]]> 2018-05-03 14:00:08 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/257659072 thomas_skaggs https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/257663257 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.]]> 2018-05-03 14:08:03 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/257663257 thomas_skaggs https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/257664716 Sandford, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States.]]> 2018-05-03 14:11:02 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/257664716 thomas_skaggs https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/257666374 Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois state election campaign as among the most significant statements in American political history. The issue they discussed were not only of critical importance to the sectional conflict. ]]> 2018-05-03 14:13:55 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/257666374 thomas_skaggs https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/257802374 On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a small army of 18 men into the small town of Harper's Ferry, Virginia. His plan was to instigate a major slave rebellion in the South. He would seize the arms and ammunition in the federal arsenal, arm slaves in the area and move south along the Appalachian Mountains.]]> 2018-05-03 18:36:36 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/257802374 thomas_skaggs https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/257804745 On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Douglas, Breckinridge, and Bell. He was the first president from the Republican Party.]]> 2018-05-03 18:42:01 UTC https://padlet.com/thomas_skaggs/vz0jr3hgxhzy/wish/257804745