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Missouri Compromise
It kept the balance of power by admission of Maine as a free state is secured to balance Missouri's admission as a slave state to be fair. Missouri was part of the Louisiana Purchase territory, and no laws had been made about whether slavery would be accepted or not in states.(New Georgia Studies Textbook). -
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Henry McNeal Turner
Born in South Carolina he was 1 of the black legislators elected who supported public education, helped organize the Republican Party, and much more. Turner was never a slave and had an opportunity to have an education since his paternal grandmother was a white plantation owner, and his maternal grandfather had a tattoo that signified he had a royal status.(New Georgia Encyclopedia). -
Georgia Platform
The North and South agreed on the Compromise of 1850 and the North had to uphold the Fugitive Slave Act. Also Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" which is the story about the tragedies of slaves' lives like Uncle Tom, Eliza, and Eliza’s young child and stirred many northerners to become antislavery.(New Georgia Studies Textbook). -
Battle of Antietam
The bloodiest one-day battle when Union attacks on Confederate left moving from North to South. A Georgia brigade commanded by Robert Toombs had fired at the Union army to keep them from crossing the bridge to the Antietam Creek and Toombs was wounded in the fighting.(New Georgia Studies Textbook). -
Emancipation Proclamation
After the battle of Antietam, Abraham Lincoln issued a precursory proclamation declaring all slaves free. The proclamation affected the Confederate states causing people in other slave states like Missouri and Maryland to free their slaves.(New Georgia Studies Textbook). -
Freedmen's Bureau
Oliver Howard started it all by supporting poor whites in the South and provided stuff to freedmen. General Tillson augmented the agency's commitment to free labor, initiating contracts for agricultural work and a wage scale, in upper & middle Georgia men received $12-$13 per month and woman received $8-$10 per month in addition to the food & lodging. (New Georgia Encyclopedia).
