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Missouri wanted to join the union as a slave state this would upset the balance between free and slave states in congress so the US admitted Maine and Missouri at the same time.
new fact : between the south and north had been building and was concentrated in the Missouri territory, it was ready to be to the union as a state and they were questioning if it would be a slave or free. source - Georgia info -
Alexander Stephens and other congressmen liked the compromise of 1850 and wrote the Georgia platform encouraging Georgia and other southern states to vote and pass it.
new fact; Henry Clay introduced a compromise bill on slavery that included admission of California into the union as a free state but required free states to return escaped slaves. also allow the western territories to vote whether to allow slavery.
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the forts commander wouldn't surrender , the confederates opened fire the war began the north soldiers were motivated by patriotism
new fact: union commander of fort Sumter surrendered to confederate forces , the stars and stripes were lowered from the flag pole and replaced by the confederate stars and bars..
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General Lee was forced to retreat in Virginia ending the hope of the confederacy for victory. another affect was to remain neutral and not help the confederacy.
new fact; Confederates began with a heavy bombardment which the union answered in force. after two hours Lee sent George Pickett and 12,000 soldiers on a massive assault on the union center. -
agreed to exchange their labor and a portion of their crops to a land owner in return for land to work. caused themselves in debt and couldn't get out of the system
New Fact ; freed slaves in Georgia were left with few options as free laborers .following the civil war plantation owners without slaves or money to pay a free labor force. A quote "forty acres and a mule".
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slave owners tried to keep them under control they terrorized African Americans and used violence.
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