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Missouri Compromise
A compromise that was meant to keep the peace between the Confederate and Union. The compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state to keep the balance of slave and free states. -
Henry Mcneal Turner
Widely considered one of the most influential black leaders, Henry Mcneal became a legislator from Macon. The reason why he was qualified to be a politician is that he had the very rare opportunity to get an education, and he took it. -
The Compromise of 1850
Made California a free state, and the Utah and New Mexico territories' opinion on slavery depended on the popular choice. Other than those three territories being admitted into the states, the compromise made it easier for southern slave owners to go and capture fugitive slaves -
Antietam
Known as the bloodiest single day fight, Robert E. Lee and George Mclellen fought a costly battle that would result in the Union winning. Since, the Union had a string of losses before the battle, the win proved important in the overall defeat of the Confederate. -
Gettysburg
The bloodiest overall battle in the war, the confederates took a devastating loss due to the extreme number of casualties. The confederates couldn't hold up against the constant barrage of attacks that the union threw at them. -
Ku Klux Klan
Originally starting as a political group in favor of the Democratic party, the KKK slowly made a transformation from just a "club" for whites to try to take down the Republican party into a racist group whose main goal is to terrorize the freedmen and their families.
