https://padlet.com/mianicholls2025/y0p0nmf60pyo792o en-us 2023-10-30 19:48:15 UTC 2023-10-30 20:25:36 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4c5.png mianicholls2025 https://padlet.com/mianicholls2025/y0p0nmf60pyo792o/wish/2769482092 A complex compromise devised by Senator Henry Clay that admitted California as a free state, included a stronger fugitive slave law, and delayed determination of the slave status of the New Mexico and Utah territories. ]]> 2023-10-30 19:53:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mianicholls2025/y0p0nmf60pyo792o/wish/2769482092 mianicholls2025 https://padlet.com/mianicholls2025/y0p0nmf60pyo792o/wish/2769483197 A law created in 1850 that gave the federal government authority in cases involving runaway slaves; aroused considerable opposition in the North ]]> 2023-10-30 19:54:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mianicholls2025/y0p0nmf60pyo792o/wish/2769483197 mianicholls2025 https://padlet.com/mianicholls2025/y0p0nmf60pyo792o/wish/2769484653 A program that allowed settlers in a disputed territory to decide the slavery issue for themselves; most closely associated with Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois ]]> 2023-10-30 19:56:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mianicholls2025/y0p0nmf60pyo792o/wish/2769484653 mianicholls2025 https://padlet.com/mianicholls2025/y0p0nmf60pyo792o/wish/2769486400 1854 law sponsored by Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas to allow settlers in newly organized territories north of the Missouri border to decide the slavery issue for themselves; fury over the resulting repeal of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 led to violence in Kansas and to the formation of the Republican Party ]]> 2023-10-30 19:58:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mianicholls2025/y0p0nmf60pyo792o/wish/2769486400 mianicholls2025 https://padlet.com/mianicholls2025/y0p0nmf60pyo792o/wish/2769487663 Violence between pro- and anti slavery settlers in the Kansas Territory, 1856]]> 2023-10-30 19:59:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mianicholls2025/y0p0nmf60pyo792o/wish/2769487663 mianicholls2025 https://padlet.com/mianicholls2025/y0p0nmf60pyo792o/wish/2769489762 1857 
The U.S Supreme Court decision in which Chiefs Justice Roger B. Taney ruled that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories, on the grounds that such a prohibition would violate the Fifth Amendment rights of slaveholders, and that no Black person could be a citizen of the U.S]]> 2023-10-30 20:01:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mianicholls2025/y0p0nmf60pyo792o/wish/2769489762 mianicholls2025 https://padlet.com/mianicholls2025/y0p0nmf60pyo792o/wish/2769491740 A series of senatorial campaign debate sin 1858 focusing on the issue of slavery in the territories; held in Illinois between Republican Abraham Lincoln, who made a nation reputation for himself, and incumbent Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas, who managed to hold on to his seat ]]> 2023-10-30 20:03:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mianicholls2025/y0p0nmf60pyo792o/wish/2769491740 mianicholls2025 https://padlet.com/mianicholls2025/y0p0nmf60pyo792o/wish/2769493005 Site of abolitionist John Brown’s failed raid on the federal arsenal, October 16-17; Brown became a martyr to his cause gaffer his capture and execution ]]> 2023-10-30 20:05:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mianicholls2025/y0p0nmf60pyo792o/wish/2769493005 mianicholls2025 https://padlet.com/mianicholls2025/y0p0nmf60pyo792o/wish/2769496490 Democratic convention met in April 1860, Abraham Lincoln won the four-way contest. Even though he had less than 40% of the popular vote, he won the Electoral College vote ]]> 2023-10-30 20:08:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mianicholls2025/y0p0nmf60pyo792o/wish/2769496490 mianicholls2025 https://padlet.com/mianicholls2025/y0p0nmf60pyo792o/wish/2769501533 Proposal to prohibit slavery in any land acquired in the Mexican War; defeated by southern senators, led by John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, in 1846 and 1847]]> 2023-10-30 20:14:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mianicholls2025/y0p0nmf60pyo792o/wish/2769501533 mianicholls2025 https://padlet.com/mianicholls2025/y0p0nmf60pyo792o/wish/2769503576 First battle of the Civil War, in which the federal fort in Charleston (South Carolina) Harbor was captured by the Confederates on April 14, 1861, after two days of shelling]]> 2023-10-30 20:16:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mianicholls2025/y0p0nmf60pyo792o/wish/2769503576