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Missouri compromise
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states. Three years later it was named unconstitutional cause of the dred scott decision.(New Ga Encyclopedia) -
Ga Platform
The state of Ga has decided that North and South agree to the Ga Platform.Only 19 delegates voted against the Ga platform.
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Election of 1860
The electoral split between northern and southern democrats and was several sectional split mostly over slavery. Dred Scott decision of 1857, in which the U.S. Supreme Court voided the Missouri Compromise (1820), making slavery legal but abraham changed that(New GA Encyclopedia) -
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Union Blockade of Ga coast
They had blockade runners to get supplies in order to survive.Confederate Ga was a pivotal part of the union strategy to subdue the state during civil war.(New Ga Encyclopedia) -
Anderson prison
To provide relief for the large number of union prisoners concentrated in.Nearly 13,000 of 45,000 men that entered the stockade died. -
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Share Cropping
Share cropping was to keep the slaves in dept.Land owners wanted to keep them as slaves again,Giving at least half of the crops to the land owner.(New Ga Encyclopedia)