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Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney created the cotton on Oct. 28,1783. The cotton gin made it easier for workers to separate the seeds for framing. By the mid-19th century, cotton had became America's leading export. -
Capital moved to Louisville
Capital of Louisville was moved on Jan 1,1785. Louisville is a city in Jefferson county Georgia, it's a former state capital of Georgia. Legislators specified the new capital would be named Louisville in honor of King Louis xvl of France, America's Revolutionary war ally. -
University of Georgia Founded
University of Georgia was founded on January 27,1785. Georgia is one of many old college's, the meaning of UGA steads for University of Georgia college of Agricultural, but that's just one of other meanings for UGA. In 1784 the General Assembly had 40,000 acres of land to endow a college of learning. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
Yazoo land was fraud on January 7,1795. One of the worst political scandals took place in Yazoo land in 1795. State leaders wanted the Yazoo land for acres settlement, but Creeks, Cherokees, and other Native Americans lived there, trying to take the land was going to hard. -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise an act of congress of 1820 by which Missouri was admitted as a slave state, Maine as a free state.Missouri's 1819 request for admission of the union as a slave state, which threatened to upset the delicate balance between slave states and free states. The Missouri Compromise was an effort by congress to defuse the sectional and sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission -
William Mclntosh
William Mclntosh is a Taskanug, Hatke chiefs of the creek nation,supported General Andrew Jackson in the Creek war of 1812-15. U.S victory at Horeseshoe Bend lead upper and lower creeks to sign a treaty of fort Jackson which the creeks ceded 22 million acres of land in Alabama and South Georgia. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
Dahlonega Gold Rush was found on Aug.1,1829. John Witheroods found a three ounce nugget along Duke's creek in Habersham county. From the beginning of the gold rush, trade in the gold region suffered from limited circulation of currency. -
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Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears was decide on 1831-1850 in southeastern Untied States. At the beginning of the 1830's nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida- land their ancestors. Working on behalf of white settlers who wanted to grow cotton on the Indians land, the Federal Government forced them to leave their homelands and walk thousands of miles to a specially designated " Indians Territory" across the Mississippian River. -
Worcester v. Georgia
Worcester v. Georgia was decided on Sep.15,1832. In the court case held in 1832 that the Cherokee Indians constituted a nation holding distinct power. In the 1820s and 1830s Georgia conducted a relent less campaign to remove the Cherokee, who held territory within the borders of Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee at the time. -
John Marshall
John Marshall was born on September 24, 1755 and appointed by John Adams and later died on July 6,1835. John Marshall was chief justice of the U.S. supreme court, Adams appointed Marshall secretary of state and in 1801 chief justice, a position he held until death. During Marshall's thirty-four years as chief justice, he gave content to the constitution's omissions clarified it's ambiguities and set the court on a course for "ages to come." -
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was born on March 15,1767 and died on June 8,1845. Jackson like many presidents was one of the presidents of the Untied States, but his president term only lasted from March 4,1829-1837. As a little boy Jackson grow up in proverty, until he had became a wealthy lawyer and rising young politician by 1812. -
Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850 was signed Jan.29,1850. War were resolved in the Compromise of 1850 consisted of laws admitting California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty. The compromise was to last major involvement in national affairs of senators Henry clay of Kentucky, Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, John C. Calhoun of South Carolina all of whom had exceptional careers in the senate. -
Georgia Platform
Georgia Platform statement of qualified support for the U.S. union among Georgia conservatives following the Compromise of 1850. Charles J. Jenkins and adopted by the State convention on Dec.10,1850 at Milledgeville, the Georgia Platform warned that the state would and should resist any future congressional activity disrupting the slave trade, weakening the fugitive slave laws. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was an 1854 bill that mandated "power sovereignty" allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state's borders. This 1854 bill organize western territories became part of the political whirlwind of sectionalism. Kansas was admitted as a free state in January 1861 only weeks after eight southern states secede from the union. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was a slave whose owner a army doctor had spent time in millions, a free state and Wisconsin,a free territory at the time of Scott's residence. Chief justice Roger B. Taney wrote the majority decision, which was issued on March 6,1857 -
Election of 1860
United States Presidential election of 1860, American Presidential election held on Nov.6,1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated southern Democrat John C. Breckenridge. Months following Lincoln's election seven southern states. -
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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 Untied strategy to subdue during the Civil war (1861-65). Abraham Lincoln's call at the start of the war for a naval blockade of the entire southern coastline look time to materialize. On the night of November 11,1861,a darling confederate blockade-runner, Edward C. Anderson, escaped under union eyes. -
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Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
Union General William T. Sherman faced off against confederate generals Joseph E. Johnston and John B. Hood in a series of battle in northern Georgia during the U.S. civil war. With Atlanta under union control, Sherman embarked on his march to the sea, which land waste to the countryside and hastened the confederacy's defeat. While Sherman failed to destroy his enemy, he was able to force the surrender of Atlanta in September 1864. -
Emancipation Proclamation
American Civil war (1861-65) began, president Abraham Lincoln carefully framed the conflict as concerning the personally of the union rather than the abolition of slavery. On September 22,soon after the union victory at Antimalarial, he issued a preliminary emancipation proclamation, declaring that as of Jan.1,1863. When it took effect in January 1863, the emancipation proclamation freed 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves. -
Battle of Chickamauga
On September 19-20 1863 Brampton Bragg's Army of Tennessee defeated a union force commanded by General William Rosecrans to give way, which heavy losses on both sides. In the western theater of the civil war, during the late summer and autumn of 1863, union and confederate forces were struggling over control of the Key railroad. -
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Andersonville Prison Camp
February 1864 until the end of the American Civil War (1861-65) in April 1865, Andersonville Georgia served as the site of a notorious confederate military prison. In all, approximately 13,000 union prisoners perished at Andersonville, and following the War it's commander. -
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Sherman's March to Sea
The purpose of this "March to Sea" was to frighten Georgia's civilian population into abandoning the confederate cause, Sherman's soldiers did not destroy any of the towns in their path,but did stole food and live stock and burned the houses. The dates of Sherman's March at Sea areas sit on Nov.15,1864 and Dec.21,1864. -
Freemen's Bureau
The Freemen's Bureau, formally known as the Bureau of refugees, Freemen and Abandoned lands, was established in 1865 by congress to help millions of former black slaves. It also attempted to settle former slaves am land uninfected or abandoned during war. However, the bureau was prevented from fully carrying out it's programs due to a shortage of funds. -
Thirteenth Amendment
On this day 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, officially ending the institution of slavery is ratified. The ratification came eight months after the end of the war, but it represented the culmination of the straggle against slavery. When the war began, some in the north were against fighting what they saw as a crusade to end slavery. -
Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klax Klan is a secret organization of what protestant men in the United States which promotes violence against black people, Jews, and other minorities. Founded in 1866, the (kkk) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for which southern resistance. Its members waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed at white and black republicans leaders. -
John Ross
John Ross (cherokee) died on August 1, 1866. All Cherokee Indiana's called John Ross by his cherokee name Tsan-Usdi. 5 years later Ross became principal chief of the Cherokee nation. -
Fourteenth Amendment
The 14th Amendment to the constitution was rafted on July 9,1868 and granted citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the Untied States." In addition it forbids states from denying any person "life, liberty or property,without due process of law." By directly mentioning the role of the states, the 14th Amendment greatly expanded the protection of Civil rights. -
Fifteenth Amendment
The 15th amendment of the Untied States constitution prohibits the federal and state government from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race color." It was ratified on February 3,1870 as the third and last of reconstruction amendment. In the final years of American civil war and the reconstruction era that followed congress repeatedly debated.
