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Missouri Comprimise
This allowed Missouri to become a slave state and Main to become a free state. Some people, for example South Carolinian John C. Calhoun and his followers did not want the compromise, but instead wanted the U.S constitution to legalize slavery everywhere. (New Georgia Encyclopedia) -
Georgia Platform
This was Georgia's response following the compromise o 1850. With the national crisis settling down after the passage of the Georgia Platform, state politicians settled back into their old ways, but for the rest o the decade Georgia democrats continued to grow and the whigs fell far behind.(New Georgia Encyclopedia) -
Emancipation Proclamation
This freed all slaves held in confederate controlled states. When freedom finally came, black Georgians were on top of the world for the chance to remake their lives; some started with simple things for their new status, others took off work to visit with friends or they wore their best clothes to strut through the streets. (New Georgia Encyclopedia) -
Andersonville
Confederates captured people from the Union, and held them captive in an utter nightmare. In the summer of 1864 the confederates expanded the camp using labor of Union prisoners, adding a bakery, hospital, and barracks, yet the overwhelming number of prisoners were making their efforts hopelessly poor.(New Georgia Encyclopedia) -
Freedmans Bureau
This helped African Americans adjust to their newly gained freedom. Operations of the Freedman's Bureau stopped as early as 1870 in Georgia and other states, the Bureau remained functioning until 1972, when congress let the authorization expire. (New Georgia Encyclopedia) -
Sharecropping and tenant farming
Mostly in the south, when someone is provided with land and all the necessities to work the land and agrees to share their product, like crops with the landowner. People left sharecropping in the mid-twentieth century, they went to northern and southern cities, land owners then sought out new technology to make growing things like cotton easier and less expensive.(New Georgia Encyclopedia)
