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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise tried to keep the number of slave states and free states equal.Appealing to white southerners Washington promised his audience that he would encourage blacks to become proficient in agriculture,mechanics,commerce,and domestic service,and to encourage them to 'dignity and glorifying common labour. Source: new GA encylopedia -
Dred Scott Case
Dred SCott's army officer kept him in states that slaves are free in,so Dred Scott sued his owner in court for his freedom.After the case was turned down the North was angry which led to Abraham Lincoln's election three years later which ended slavery. Source:Road to war and Georgia Info -
Andersonville Prison
During the Civil War, a confederate prison was established in Macon County,in Southwest GA,to provide relief for the large number of Union prisoners concentrated in and around Richmond.The camp held the largest prison population of its time,with numbers that would have made it fifth largest city in the Confederacy. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The campaign that brought the Union and Confederate armies to Chickamauga began in late June 1863,when the Union army of Cumberland under Major General William S. Rosecrans advanced southward from Murfreesboro.34,000 casulties it is generally accepted as the second bloodiest engagement of war. Source: New GA Encyclopedia