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Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was an American soldier and stateman who served as the seventh president of the united states of america from 1829 to 1837. -
University of Georgia founded
Eighteenth Century. of land to endow, a college or seminary of learning. The legislature's approval of the charter on January 27, 1785, made UGA the first university established by a state government and provided the framework for what would become the American system of publicly supported colleges and universities. -
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
In 1794, A inventor named Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin, a machine that revolutiunzed the prodution of removing seed from fiber, by the mid-19th century, cotton had become americas leading export. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
In 1795 one of Georgia's wost polititical scanadles took place in the yazoo Land fraud, At the time Georgia's legal boundary extended went to the Mississippi river. many state leaders wanted to open this area to settle. -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise definition. A settlement of a dispute between slave and free states, contained in several laws passed during 1820 and 1821. Northern legislators had tried to prohibit slavery in Missouri, which was then applying for statehood. -
William Mclntosh
William Mclntosh was one of the most prominent chiefs of the creek nation between the turn of the nineteenth century and the time of creek removal to the indian territory. the creek chief was killed on April 30, 1825 -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
Dahlonega Gold Rush turned out to be gold. Five other people claimed to be the first to make the discovery, but the result was the same, thousands of miners swarmed into the mountains in what the Cherokees called the Great Intrusion, and the Georgia Gold Rush was on. -
Worcester v. Georgia
Worcester v. Georgia was a case in which the United States Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester and held that the Georgia criminal statute that prohibited non-Native Americans from being present on Native American lands without a license from the state was -
Dred scott Case
The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom. -
John Marshall
John Marshall was an American politician and the fourth Chief Justice of the United States. Marshall cemented the position of the American judiciary as an independent and influential branch of government. -
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trail of tears
The route along which the United States government forced several tribes of Native Americans, including the Cherokees, Seminoles, Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Creeks, to migrate to reservations west of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s. -
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before being elected to the presidency, Jackson gained fame as a general in the United States Army and served in both houses of Congress -
Compromise of 1850
A set of laws, passed in the midst of fierce wrangling between groups favoring slavery and groups opposing it, that attempted to give something to both sides. Part of the Compromise included the Fugitive Slave Act, which proved highly unpopular in the North. -
Georgia platform
The Georgia Platform was a statement executed by a Georgia Convention in Milledgeville, Georgia on December 10, 1850 in response to the Compromise of 1850. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas-nebraska Act. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed citizens in the Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide locally whether to allow slavery. The act was modeled on the Compromise of 1850 but repealed both that compromise and the Missouri Compromise of 1820. -
Election of 1860
The 1860 presidential election pitted four candidates against each other: Stephen Douglas for the Northern Democrats, John C. Breckenridge for the Southern Democrats, John Bell for the Constitutional Union Party, and Abraham Lincoln for the Republican Party -
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Union Blockade of Georgia
The union Blockade happened from 1861 to 1865 during the American Civil War. The Union Blockade happened along the coast of confederate Georgia and along the coast of some other southern states. How President Abraham Lincoln approved it. The union came up withe a strategy to block confederate ports -
Emancipation proclamation
On January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The declaration reads, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free. -
Battle of Chickamauga
The battle took place on September 19 and September 20, 1863. It occurred in northwest Georgia and is named for Chickamauga Creek. The Union was under the command of Major General William Rosecrans and General Braxton Bragg led the Confederates.It was the first battle of the war fought in Georgia. -
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Andersonville Prison Camp
Andersonville held the largest prison population in the entire Confederacy. During the beginning of 1864, the men in command of the Confederacy saw a need for another prison to house their prisoners of war. -
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Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
The Atlanta Campaign was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864. -
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Sherman's March to the sea
Sherman's March to the Sea (also known as the Savannah Campaign) was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864, by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army. -
Thirteenth Admendement
The 13th Amendment, passed by Congress January 31, 1865, and ratified December 6, 1865, states Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where the party had been duly convicted, it exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction -
Freedman's Bureau
The Freedmen's Bureau, formally known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, was established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War -
Ku Klux Klan Formed
Founded in 1866, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for blacks -
John Ross
Ross was born on October 3, 1790, in Turkey Town, on the Coosa River near present day Center Alabama. His family moved to the base of Lookout Mountain the area that became Rossville, Georgia -
Capital moved to Louisville
After the British left, the capital was moved to Augusta, then Louisville while a new city was being built on the Oconee River, reflecting the western move of Georgia's populace. But by 1847 some were unhappy with the Milledgeville and called for an election to move the capital to Atlanta. -
Fourteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment, to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. -
Fifteenth Amendment
The 15th Amendment, which was ratified in 1870, contained two sections. Section One stated that ''The right of citizens to vote should not be denied or abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.'' Section Two granted the U.S. Congress the power to enforcement through legislation.
