https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff en-us 2022-10-25 16:12:26 UTC 2022-10-31 16:47:22 UTC hello@padlet.com saraboyter2024 https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2355784628 The election of 1860 consisted of four major candidates, who were Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, John C. Breckinridge and John Bell. It caused the Democratic Party to spilt over the issue of slavery. The winner of the election was Lincoln, he won the popular vote and electoral vote by 180 to 123, but no electoral votes were from the South. ]]> 2022-10-25 16:32:51 UTC https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2355784628 saraboyter2024 https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2355816070 The race for the U.S. Senate between Democratic Douglas and Republican challenger Abraham Lincoln. During a debate, Lincoln asked Douglas a question, which Douglas’ response is referred as Freeport Doctrine. In the end, Douglas won the Senate seat, but his response worsened the split between the North and South Democratic Party. ]]> 2022-10-25 16:51:13 UTC https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2355816070 saraboyter2024 https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359035642 Name for the Kansas Territory in the years before the Civil War. It was a territory seen as a battleground for proslavery and antislavery forces.]]> 2022-10-27 13:12:24 UTC https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359035642 saraboyter2024 https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359050022 It was an amendment to the military appropriations bill. Said that none of the territory acquired in the war with Mexico would be open to slavery. The Northerners and Southerns did not agree, the North supported the proviso, while the South opposed the proviso. ]]> 2022-10-27 13:20:24 UTC https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359050022 saraboyter2024 https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359072334 Expressed through Stephen Douglas when countering Abraham Lincoln’s question in a debate for a Senate seat. An idea that believed any territory could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws supporting it.]]> 2022-10-27 13:33:32 UTC https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359072334 saraboyter2024 https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359083927 Created by Henry Clay who worked on it for the North and South to both agree upon it. It was a serious of congressional measures that intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states. Never resolved resolutions.]]> 2022-10-27 13:40:23 UTC https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359083927 saraboyter2024 https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359099232 A law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. It gave their citizens the right to decide whether to allow slavery. Also, would repeal the Missouri Compromise and establish popular sovereignty for both territories.]]> 2022-10-27 13:49:02 UTC https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359099232 saraboyter2024 https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359123490 A secret network of people would risk themselves to aid fugitive slaves in their escape. Hid the fugitives in secret tunnels and false cupboards then escorted them to the next station. It was a system of routes to which runaway slaves would be helped to escape to Canada or safe areas in free states. ]]> 2022-10-27 14:03:13 UTC https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359123490 saraboyter2024 https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359141602 It was an important legal question came before the Supreme Court. The case was about a slave, Dred Scott from Missouri. Scott’s owner had taken him north of the Missouri Compromise line in 1834 and four years they lived in free territory. Then returned to Missouri, where Scott’s owner died. Scott then began a lawsuit to gain his freedom because he claimed he had lived in free territory, so he should be free. Created tension between the North and South.]]> 2022-10-27 14:14:01 UTC https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359141602 saraboyter2024 https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359233869 It was a term of the Compromise of 1850. A system in which the  residents vote to decide an issue. Allowed the right of residents of a territory to vote for or against slavery in both North and South which created conflict.]]> 2022-10-27 15:07:00 UTC https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359233869 saraboyter2024 https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359244332 Was one of the only two Southern forts that the Union had. The day after Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration, he received a dispatch from the fort’s commander. It demanded that they surrender or face attack. Food and ammunition would take six weeks. Lincoln would send in “food for hungry men.” The fall united the North.]]> 2022-10-27 15:12:31 UTC https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359244332 saraboyter2024 https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359404673 John Brown studied the slave uprisings that had occurred in ancient Rome and on the French island of Haiti, believing that United States should have uprisings. He secretly obtained financial backing from prominent Northern abolitionists. One night he led 21 men, black and white, into Harpers Ferry. Aim to seize the federal arsenal and start a slave uprising, but the plan failed. Created hope for antislavery people and Southerns did not agree.]]> 2022-10-27 16:53:00 UTC https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359404673 saraboyter2024 https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359469390 A law that enacted as part of the Compromise of 1850. It was designed to ensure that escaped slaves would return into bondage. Alleged fugitives were not allowed to a trial by jury. But, only a statement from a slave owner was required to have a slave returned. ]]> 2022-10-27 17:38:43 UTC https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359469390 saraboyter2024 https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359480434 It was a best-selling novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Portrayed slavery as a great moral evil and not a political contest. Stirred strong reactions from the North and South.]]> 2022-10-27 17:46:36 UTC https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359480434 saraboyter2024 https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359493192 Are statutes, passes in nine Northern states in the 1850s. It forbade the imprisonment of runaway slaves and guaranteed jury trails for fugitive slaves. Northern lawyers dragged trials out to three or four years. Created tension between the North and South.]]> 2022-10-27 17:55:46 UTC https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359493192 saraboyter2024 https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359537214 Because of Abraham Lincoln’s victory, it convinced Southerns that they lost their political voice in the national government. They decided to secede from the Union. 

I believe this event leading to the Civil War is the most important because it divided the United States into two parts, the Union and the Confederates which lead to violence. The Confederacy believed in slavery, while the Union favored no slavery, this factor lead to social disputes that they did not agree upon.]]> 2022-10-27 18:28:26 UTC https://padlet.com/saraboyter2024/y1kd89vrlwhwp3ff/wish/2359537214