Road to Civil War Timeline by Maritza Gomez https://padlet.com/18539515/zfcg9eehxuw3pi9g Maritza Gomez Period 3 en-us 2020-12-19 05:16:38 UTC 2026-01-11 00:55:00 UTC hello@padlet.com Brooks-Sumner Caning 18539515 https://padlet.com/18539515/zfcg9eehxuw3pi9g/wish/1033076755  May 22, 1856
Representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts in retaliation for a speech given by Sumner two days earlier in which he fiercely criticized slaveholders, including a relative of Brooks.]]> 2020-12-19 05:21:16 UTC https://padlet.com/18539515/zfcg9eehxuw3pi9g/wish/1033076755 Compromise of 1850 18539515 https://padlet.com/18539515/zfcg9eehxuw3pi9g/wish/1033080767 January 29, 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was made up of five bills that attempted to resolve disputes over slavery in new territories added to the United States in the wake of the Mexican-American War (1846-48).]]> 2020-12-19 05:28:24 UTC https://padlet.com/18539515/zfcg9eehxuw3pi9g/wish/1033080767 Dred Scott Decision 18539515 https://padlet.com/18539515/zfcg9eehxuw3pi9g/wish/1033082750 March 6, 1857
A decade-long fight for freedom by a Black enslaved man named Dred Scott. The case persisted through several courts and ultimately reached the U.S. Supreme Court, whose decision incensed abolitionists, gave momentum to the anti-slavery movement and served as a stepping stone to the Civil War.]]> 2020-12-19 05:32:03 UTC https://padlet.com/18539515/zfcg9eehxuw3pi9g/wish/1033082750 John Brown’s Raid 18539515 https://padlet.com/18539515/zfcg9eehxuw3pi9g/wish/1033086778 October 16-18, 1859
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. ]]> 2020-12-19 05:39:34 UTC https://padlet.com/18539515/zfcg9eehxuw3pi9g/wish/1033086778 Kansas-Nebraska Act 18539515 https://padlet.com/18539515/zfcg9eehxuw3pi9g/wish/1033087780 May 30, 1854
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a bill that mandated “popular sovereignty” allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders.]]> 2020-12-19 05:41:31 UTC https://padlet.com/18539515/zfcg9eehxuw3pi9g/wish/1033087780 The Liberator begins publication 18539515 https://padlet.com/18539515/zfcg9eehxuw3pi9g/wish/1033089352 January 1, 1831
The Liberator was a weekly newspaper of abolitionist crusader William Lloyd Garrison. It was the most influential anti slavery periodical in the pre-Civil War period of U.S. history.]]> 2020-12-19 05:44:31 UTC https://padlet.com/18539515/zfcg9eehxuw3pi9g/wish/1033089352 Lincoln elected President 18539515 https://padlet.com/18539515/zfcg9eehxuw3pi9g/wish/1033091111 November 6, 1860
Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote but handily defeated the three other candidates. ]]> 2020-12-19 05:47:54 UTC https://padlet.com/18539515/zfcg9eehxuw3pi9g/wish/1033091111 Mexican War 18539515 https://padlet.com/18539515/zfcg9eehxuw3pi9g/wish/1033094318 Apr 25, 1846 – Feb 2, 1848
The Mexican-American War, also called Mexican War, Spanish Guerra de 1847 or Guerra de Estados Unidos a México was a war between the United States and Mexico stemming from the United States’ annexation of Texas. ]]> 2020-12-19 05:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/18539515/zfcg9eehxuw3pi9g/wish/1033094318 Missouri Compromise 18539515 https://padlet.com/18539515/zfcg9eehxuw3pi9g/wish/1033099324 March 3, 1820
The Missouri Compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, and prohibited slavery in territory that later became Kansas and Nebraska.

]]> 2020-12-19 06:03:30 UTC https://padlet.com/18539515/zfcg9eehxuw3pi9g/wish/1033099324 Nat Turner Revolt 18539515 https://padlet.com/18539515/zfcg9eehxuw3pi9g/wish/1033099607 Aug 21, 1831 – Aug 23, 1831
A rebellion of black slaves that took place in Southampton County, Virginia. It was led by Nat Turner. Between 55 and 65 people were killed, at least 51 of whom were white

]]> 2020-12-19 06:03:51 UTC https://padlet.com/18539515/zfcg9eehxuw3pi9g/wish/1033099607 Republican Party formed 18539515 https://padlet.com/18539515/zfcg9eehxuw3pi9g/wish/1033099712 March 20, 1854
The Republican Party is founded by a group of antislavery politicians who formerly belonged to the Whig and Free-Soil Parties. The party opposes the Southern Democratic Party, the nativist "Know Nothing" American Party, and the potential expansion of slavery into the Western territories.]]> 2020-12-19 06:04:05 UTC https://padlet.com/18539515/zfcg9eehxuw3pi9g/wish/1033099712 South Carolina secedes 18539515 https://padlet.com/18539515/zfcg9eehxuw3pi9g/wish/1033099807 December 20, 1860
South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States. ]]> 2020-12-19 06:04:18 UTC https://padlet.com/18539515/zfcg9eehxuw3pi9g/wish/1033099807 Uncle Tom’s Cabin published 18539515 https://padlet.com/18539515/zfcg9eehxuw3pi9g/wish/1033099936 March 20, 1852
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, in full Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly was a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that was published in in the United States. It was an abolitionist novel that achieved wide popularity, particularly among white readers in the North. The book vividly described the experience of slavery.



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