Georgia Use Tax. 1.5 -. If you buy goods and are not charged the Georgia Sales Tax by the retailer, such as with online and out-of-state purchases, you are supposed to pay the 4% sales tax (less any foreign sales tax paid) for these items yourself as the Georgia Use Tax.
The Homestead Act also gave former slaves a chance to own their own land, house, and farm. A free slave can have free land. However, a slave would continue to work for his master. However, the land was given to farmers at a very low cost, homesteading took land that had been cleared of Native Americans.he Homestead Act was a way for the pioneers to get land. The government said that any U.S. citizen who did not fight against the government could file an application to receive land.
To placate the South, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (9 Stat. 462) was enacted by Congress as part of the Compromise of 1850. It imposed a duty on all citizens to assist federal marshals to enforce the law or be prosecuted for their failure to do so.he refusal of northern states to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act was alleged by South Carolina as one reason for its secession from the Union prior to the onset of the Civil War. The acts of 1793 and 1850 remained legally operative until their repeal by Congress on June 28, 1864 (13 Stat. 200). 1  Facebook. 2  Twitter.