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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)
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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)
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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)
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This was the bloodiest one day battle ever fought. On September 18, General Lee retreated back into Virginia.(Georgia Studies Textbook)
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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)
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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)