Georgia History Checkpoint 2

  • University of Georgia founded

    University of Georgia founded
    The collage was founded by Abraham Baldwin. Women had there on set of rules and were admitted in 1918.
  • Eli Whitney and the cotton gin

    Eli Whitney and the cotton gin
    The gin removes the seeds out of the cotton fiber. Because of his work, Eli Whitney is known as manufacturing pioneer of America.
  • Yazoo land Fraud

    Yazoo land Fraud
    This was one of the most significant acts of land. The sale turned into a public Scandal.
  • Capital moved to Louisville.

    Capital moved to Louisville.
    Louisville served as the capital for 11 years. Louisville was modeled to be like Philadelphia
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    This was a disagreement between the anti-slavery and the people for slavery.
    They made a boundary between slavery and anti-slavery.
  • William Mcintosh

    William Mcintosh
    Chief of the lower creeks supported the plans of the U.S. Indian Agent.
  • Dahlonega Gold Rush

    Dahlonega Gold Rush
    Benjamin Darks was the first to find a piece of gold. In 1958, Wagons pulled gold to Atlanta for the dome.
  • Worcester vs Georgia

    Worcester vs Georgia
    john Ross lead the Cherokees.
    George Gillmer was the Governor
  • John Marshall

    John Marshall
    John Marshall was the 4th longest serving justice in the United States.
    He worked with John Adams.
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    Trail of Tears

    Andrew Jackson started a Indian removal policy
    During the migration, they faced hunger disease and, and were very tired.
  • Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson
    He was the 7th U.S. president.
    He was married to Rachel Jackson.
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    Henry Clay was the Senator at the time.
    This made California a free state.
  • Georgia Platform

    Georgia Platform
    This took place in Milledgeville Georgia.
    This was the rebuttal to the compromise of 1850
  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    Kansas Nebraska Act
    This act made many people from the North angered. John Brown was the leader of anti-slavery
  • Dred scott case

    Dred scott case
    Dred Scott was a slave.
    He lived with his owner in Missouri which was a free state.
  • Election 1860

    Election 1860
    This is the year Abraham Lincoln became president
    Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president
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    Union Blockade of Georgia

    This involved the union.
    The union was trying to stop shipment from getting to the south.
  • emancipation proclamtion

    emancipation proclamtion
    Abraham Lincoln was the president at the time. This was a act to end slavery.
  • Battle of Chickamauga

    Battle of Chickamauga
    Braxton Bragg led the the confederates. William Rosecans led the Union
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    Andersonville Prison Camp

    Once was called camp Sumter.
    This was the largest prison the south was in charge of.
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment
    This Amendment ended slavery.
    This happened 248 days after the war ended
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    Sherman's march to the sea

    This march was to frighten the rest of Georgia.
    They did not destroy any city's on their way.
  • Freedman's Bureau

    Freedman's Bureau
    This can also be known as the Bureau of Refugees
    This helped slaves and poor people.
  • Ku Klux Klan

    Ku Klux Klan
    They had almost all of the southern states involved.
    They bombed black schools churches and etc
  • John Ross

    John Ross
    He was in charge of the Cherokee nation for the longest.
    John Ross was born in Tennessee.
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment
    This solved civil war question about African American.
    This gave the citizens equal protection of the law.
  • 15th Amendment `

    15th Amendment `
    This gave black men the right to vote.
    Lyndon b Johnson was the president at the time.
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    Sherman's Atlanta campaign

    Sherman's wanted to destroy the Tennessee army.
    Atlanta surrendered in September 1864.