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Missouri Comprimise
The Missouri Compromise kept slave states and free states equal by prohibiting slavery above 36 30 latitude north.
This compromise prevented fighting because Missouri could join the Union while still being a slave state and Maine could still be a free state. Georgia: It's Heritage and It's Promise -
Compromise of 1850
Set of laws passed that has to do with slavery.
This law resolved Congress getting to much power to promote/obstruct slave trade between slaveholders. Civilwar.org -
Battle of Antietam
This battle was the bloodiest single day in American history as the Union beat the Confederation.
The battle sparked President Lincoln's idea to deliver the Emancipation Proclamation. Civilwar.org -
Battle of Gettysburg
This battle was a 3-day battle that the Union won and over 50,000 soldiers died naming it the bloodiest overall battle of the Civil War. Changed the way American's thought about war because of President Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation 4 months after the deadly battle. Civilwar.org -
Sharecropping
Sharecropping was when freedmen borrowed money and land from farm owners and tried to make it back but keep getting in more and more debt. This affected the U.S. because it wasn't helping freedmen it was just putting them into more poverty. Georgiaencyclopedia,org -
Freedman's Bureau
Financially supported poor whites and freedmen in the south after the Civil War.
Helped the U.S. by giving the needy education, homes, and jobs they needed to come out of poverty. georgiaencyclopedia.org