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Timeline (698 words) |
 | Abraham Lincoln is elected the sixteenth President of the United States, and begins to work to keep the country together. |
| Southern states break away from the United States, angering northerners and causing the Civil War. |
| The Emancipation Proclamation frees slaves in southern states to punish the south for trying to break away from the country. |
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Georgia State Flag (1614 words) |
| In 1879 the General Assembly of Georgia passed an act changing the flag to a vertical band of blue next to the staff occupying one third of the flag; the remainder was divided into three horizontal bands with the upper and lower in red and the middle in white. |
| The orignal state flag was designed by John Sammons Bell, an Atlanta attorney, and was adopted as the official flag of Georgia in 1956. |
| History does not record who made the first Georgia state flag, when it was made, what it looked like, or who authorized its creation. |
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