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The South wanted slavery to be around because they believed slaves were the reason they are surviving."'In 1820 the slave poulation had increased to 280,944;and in 1860,on the eve of the Civil War...462,198 slaves constituted 44 percent of the states total population."
-New Georgia Encyclopedia -
Compromise of 1850 and Georgia Platform
The North or California as a free state and the south got the Fugitive Salve Act. "The two major national political parties...found themselves torn apart...leaders trying to hold...the country together...five laws passed congress in a deal known as the Compromise of 1850"
-Georgia: Its heritage and it's promise -
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Sharecropping
It was a service that gave people a home,job,and chlothes. All the while,keeping them in dept. "Sharecropping was an agricultural labor system that developed in Georgia and through out the south following reconstruction and lasted until the mid twentieth centry."
-New Georgia Encyclopedia -
Andersonville Prison
Andersonville had a prison that was brutal to people specifically freedman or blacks. "By August 1864,Andersonville prisons population reached its greatest number with more than 33000 men incarcerated in the camp"
-New Georgia Encyclopedia -
Gettysburg
It was th e single bloodiest battle in the whole Civil War. Lee took his troops to do a frontal attack on the union,but the union was set on higher ground so in less than an hour over 7000 troops in the confederacy had been casualties.
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Gettysburg
It was the single bloodiest battle in the whole Civil War. Lee took his troops to do a frontal attack on the union,but the union set on higher ground so in less th an an hour over 7000 troops in the confederate had been in a casuality.
-Georgia textbook