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Eli Whitney and the cotton gin
A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton from the seeds. This allows for much greater productivity than annual cotton separation. -
university of georgia founded
UGA was the first university established by a state government and provide the framework for what would become the american system of pubicy supported colleges and universities. -
Yazoo land fraud
In the U.S history scheme by which Georgia legislators were bribed in 1795 to sell most of the land now making up the star of Mississippi to four land companies for the sum of 500'000 for below it's potential market value. -
capital moved to louisville
After 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 georgias populace. -
Missouri compromise
The Missouri compromise was a united states federal state devised by Henry Clay. It regulates slavery in the former Louisianna territority north of the parallel 36 30 north expected within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri. -
Dahlonega gold rush
The gold rush began in pumpkin county Ga and begun to spread rapidly one of the first public acounts was on August 1 when the Ga journal ran the following notice. -
Worcester V. Georgia
The U.S supreme court considered it's power to enforce the rights of Native American nations against the states. In Cherokee nation the court ruled that it lacked jurisdiction to review claims of an Indians nation within the united states. -
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Trail of Tears
As Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy the Cherokee nation was forced to give up it's lands east of the Mississippi river and to migrate to an area in present day Oklahoma. -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 was a package of five separates bills passed by the U.S congress it sept 1850 which defused a four year politiacian confrantation between slave and free sates reguarding the states of the territories accquired during the mexican American war of 1846. The compromise drafted by which senator Henry Clay of Kentucky and brocked by clay and Democratic senator stephen Douglas og Illionions reduced sectional conflict. -
Georgia Platform
The Georgia platform was a statement executed by a Georgia Milledgeville Georgia on Dec 10, 1850 in response to the comparison of 1850. Supported by unionist the document of firmed the acceptance of the compromise as a final resolution of the sectional slavery issues while declaring that no further assaults on the southern rights by the north would be acceptable. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and was drafted by democratic senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois and the president Franklin Pierce. The initial purpose of the Kansas Nebraska Act was to open up thousands of new farms and make feasible a Midwestern Transcontinental Railroad. -
Dread Scott Case
Dread Scott's case was a land mark decision by the U.S supreme court on the U.S labor law and constitutional law. It held that a negro whose ancestor's are imported into and sold as slaves wether enslaved of free could not be American citizens and there force had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the U.S. -
Election of 1860
The United States presidential election of 1860 was the ninteeth presidential election. The election was held on the Tuesday November 6, 1860 and served as the immediate immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War. -
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Union Blockade of Georgia
The Battle between ship and share on the coast of confederate Georgia was a pivotal part of the Union strategy to subdue the state during the civil war. The U.S president Abraham Lincoln's call at the start of the war for a naval Blockade of the entire southern coastline took time to materialize but by the early 1862 under Union general Winfield Scott's Anaconda plan the union navy had positioned serviceable fleet off the coast of the south's most prominent confederate ports. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam also know as the Battle of sharps burg particularly in the south was fought on Sep 17, 1862 near sharps burg,Maryland and Antietam creek as part of the Maryland campaign. It was the first field army level engagment in the Eastern Theater of the American civil war to take place on Union soil. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by the president Abraham Lincoln on in 1, 1863. It pursed to change the federal legal states of more than 3 million enslaved people in the designated areas of the south from slave to free although it's immediate effects was less. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was on jJuly 1, 1863 in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania by union and confederate forces during the American civil war. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war. -
Battle of Chickuga
The Battle of Chickamauga fought Sept 18, 1863 marked the end of a union offensive in southeastern Tennessee and northeastern Georgia called the Chickamauga campaign. The battle was the most significance Union defeat in the Western Theater of the American civil war and involved the second highest number of casualties in the war following the battle in the of Gettysburg. -
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Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
The Atlanta campaign was a series of battle fought in the western Theater of the American civil war through out the northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864. -
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Andersonville Prison camp
The Andersonville National Historic site located near Andesonville GA preserves the former camp sumter a confederate prisoners of war camp during the final twelve months of the American civilwar. Most of the site lies in the southwestern macon county adjacement to the east side of the town of Andersonvill -
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Sherman's march to the sea
Sherman's march to the sea more formally know as the Savannah campaign was a military of the American civil war conducted through Georgia from Nov to Dec by Mall Gen Williams Tecumseh of the union army. -
Freedom's Bureau
The Bureau of refuges freedom and Banded land usually reffered to as simply the freedom's bureau was a U.S federal government agency established in 1860's to aid freedom's bureau in the south during the Reconstruction erea of the U.S. -
Thirteenth Amendments
The Thirteenth Amedment to the U.S constitution abolished slavery andinventually servitable expect as punishment for a crime. In congress it was passed by the senate in April secretary of state William H. proclaimed it's adoption. -
Ku Klux Klan
Six confederate veteran's from Puloski , Tennesse created the original kkk on Dec 24, 1865 during reconstruction of the south after the civil war. The name was formed by combining the great kkk. -
Henry Mclean Turner
Henry Mclean Turner was a minister politian and the 12 elected and considered bishop of the African methodists church he was a pioneer in Georgia in organizing new congregations of the independents black denomination after the civil war. -
Fourteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth amendment to the U.S costitution says as one of the reconstruction amendment. The amendment adress citizens rights and equal protection of the laws and was proposed in response toissue related to former slaves following American civil war. -
Fifteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth amendment prohibits the federal and state government from denying a citizens the rights to vote based on that citizens race or color.
