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Eli whitney and the cotton Gin
Eli Whitney was a Massachusetts native that only spent a few months living in Georgia. Born on December 8 1765, in Massachusetts Whitney was the son of a small farmer. -
University of Georgia founded
The University of Georgia is the oldest and largest educational institution in Georgia. UGA is located in Athens–Clarke County, about seventy miles northeast of Atlanta. -
Yazoo Land fraud
Georgia was too weak after the Revolution to defend its vast western land claims. Pressure to act continued to build on legislators until November 1794. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
The sudden influx of miners into the Cherokee Nation was known even at the time as the Great Intrusion. Gold rush towns sprang up quickly in north Georgia, particularly near the center of the gold region. -
Worcester v. Georgia
In the court case Worcester v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1832 that the Cherokee Indians holding distinct sovereign powers. -
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Trail of Tears
In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands. The Cherokee people called this journey the Trail of Tears. -
Compromise of 1850
With the nation facing the potential threat of disunion over the passage of the Compromise of 1850. Georgia, in a special state convention, adopted a proclamation called the Georgia Platform. The act was instrumental in averting a national crisis. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act act of 1854 may have been the single most significant event leading to the Civil War.
The person behind the Kansas-Nebraska Act was SENATOR STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS of Illinois. -
Missouri Compromise
Southern politicians struggled during the crisis.
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Dred Scott Case
In 1857, the United States Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories
Dred Scott was a slave whose owner, an army doctor, had spent time in Illinois, a free state, and Wisconsin, a free territory at the time of Scott’s residence. -
Election of 1860
The sectional crisis of the 1850s, in which Georgia played a pivotal role, led to the outbreak of the Civil War (1861-65). Southern politicians struggled during the crisis to prevent northern abolitionists from weakening constitutional protections for slavery. -
Georgia Platform
with the nation facing the potential threat of disunion over the passage of the Compromise of 1850, Georgia, in a special state convention, adopted a proclamation called the Georgia Platform. The act was instrumental in averting a national crisis -
Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation did not come suddenly or easily to Georgia. The liberation of the state's more than 400,000 slaves began during the chaos of the Civil War (1861-65) and continued well into 1865.
The liberation of Georgia's slaves started piecemeal soon after the Civil War broke out. -
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Union Blockade of Georgia
The battle between ship and shore on the coast of Confederate Georgia was a pivotal part of the Union strategy to subdue the state during the Civil War (1861-65). U.S. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam, a.k.a. Battle of Sharpsburg, resulted in not only the bloodiest day of the American Civil War, but the bloodiest single day in all of American history. -
Battle of Gettysburg
In the summer of 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee launched his second invasion of Northern territory. Like his last foray that ended at bloody Antietam, Lee sought to score politically meaningful victories, take the war out of the ravaged Virginia farmland, and gather supplies for his army. -
Battle of Chickamauga
Through a series of skillful marches towards the Confederate-held city, Rosecrans forced Bragg out of Chattanooga.Into Georgia. Determined to reoccupy the city, Bragg followed the Federals north, brushing with Rosecrans’ army at Davis’ Cross Roads -
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Shermans Atlanta Campaign
Major General William T. Sherman's campaign in 1864 to capture Atlanta, Georgia, resulted in the loss of the Confederacy's most important railroad hub. -
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Shermans March to the sea
in 1864, Union General William T. Sherman begins his expedition across Georgia by torching the industrial section of Atlanta and pulling away from his supply lines. -
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Andersonville Prision Camp
in April 1865, Andersonville, Georgia, served as the site of a notorious Confederate military prison. The prison at Andersonville, officially called Camp Sumter. -
Thirteen Admendment
The words slavery and slave were never mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, until Georgia ratified the 13th Amendment and officially abolished slavery in the United States -
Henry McNeal Turner
was a minister, politician, and the 12th elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; he was a pioneer in Georgia in organizing new congregations of the independent black denomination after the American Civil War. -
Ku Klux Klan Formed
Klan's goals included the political defeat of the Republican Party. The maintenance of absolute white supremacy. -
Fourteenth Admendment
the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868. And granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States which included former slaves recently freed. -
Fifteenth Admendment
In 1867 Congress passed a law. Which requiring the former Confederate states to include black male suffrage in their new state constitutions -
Capital moved to Louisville
Atlanta has served as the capital city of Georgia since 1868.
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Freedmans Bureau
In March 1865 the U.S. Congress created the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands to aid African Americans.
