GEORGIA PLATFORM AND SECESSION JOSEPH, LAMAR, ALANAH
FACT #1, FACT #2 GA Platform The Georgia Platform warned that the state would and should resist any future congressional activity disrupting the interstate slave trade, weakening the fugitive slave laws , or abolishing slavery in District of Columbia. The GA Platform was written by Chalres J. Jenkins.
FACT #3, FACT #4 Ga Platform GA Secession Adopted by a state convection on December 10 th, Was Georgia's reactions to the Compromise of 1850 at Milledgeville.
FACT #5, FACT #6 Georgia Secession Represents the pinnacle of the state's political sovereignty. Georgia adopted the ordinance of the secession on January 19 th, 1861
FACT #7, FACT #8 Secession began after President Lincoln's election in the belief that his Republican Party was aggressively anti-slavery. An important figure during this time was Alexander Stephesn. He was an American politician who served as vice president of the Confederate States
FACT #9, FACT #10 Time to see what you learned Alexander Stevens, soon to be elected Vice President of the Confederacy , argued that Southern states shouldn't secede until a Constitutional right was violated. Kahoot For the Class
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