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Missouri Compromise
According to the Missouri Compromise, one slave state and one free state would be added at a time. Senator Henry Clay from Kentucky created the Compromise.(Georgia Studies Textbook) -
Georgia Platform
The South will accept the Georgia Platform as long as the North gives the slaves back. The next decade the events would repeat, but with secession and war.(Georgia Encyclopedia) -
Ku Klux Klan
This was a group of men that terrorized blacks at night. On thanksgiving 1915, 17 members went to the top of Stone Mountain and ignited a cross and proclaimed the rebirth of the KKK.(Georgia Encyclopedia) -
Antietam
This was the bloodiest one day battle ever fought. On September 18, General Lee retreated back into Virginia.(Georgia Studies Textbook) -
Chickamauga
This battle was the biggest battle ever fought in Georgia. During the three day battle, there were 16,000 Union soldiers that died and 20,000 Confederate soldiers that died.(Georgia Studies Textbook) -
Sharecropping
After the civil war if you had no land and no money you most likely worked on a farm owned by someone else. By 1880, thirty-two percent of Georgia's farms were run by sharecroppers.(Georgia Encyclopedia)