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The Compromise of 1850
California entered as a free state, the north and south came up with the Fugitive Slave Act where Slaves that were forced to return to the south be returned to the north.Due to the Georgia Platform it established Georgia's interest in the Compromise of 1850.
Source: New Georgia Encyclopedia -
Sharecropping
A form of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share at the crops produced on their portion of the land.Sharecropping developed then as a system that theorectically benefitted both parties.Land owners could have access to the large labor force necessary to grow cotton but they didn't need to pay the laborers money
Source: New Georgia Encyclopedia -
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln.In Lincoln's January 1st proclamation he announced that all 11 southern states that had joined the Confederacy were in the Rebellion.
Source: Georgia Info -
Sherman's March to the Sea
A military campaign of American Civil War conducted through Georgia by Major General William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army.The March to the Sea was the most destructive campaign against the civilian population during the Civil War.It began in Atlanta and ended in Savannah.
Source: New Georgia Encyclopedia -
Slavery
Slavery was an essential to the southern states agriculture,since agriculture was the main industry bringing in the south income.The North was not in favor of slavery because of that,the anti-slavery movement and abolitionists in the North made it there mission to help and end slavery.
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Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan has a long history of violence.It's the most infamous and oldest american hate group.Black americans have typically been the Klan's primary target.The Klan's goals included the political defeat of the Republician Party. They were very sucessful in achieveing their political goals during there social events in the Reconstruction Era.
Source:New Georgia Encyclopedia
