-
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney was born in (1765). He invented the cotton gin. By the mid-19th century, cotton had become America’s leading export. -
University of Georgia Founded
The founder of UGA is Abraham Baldwin. In 2015 The total enrollment was 36,130. UGA is located in Athens, Ga. 30602. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
Yazoo Land Fraud, in U.S. history, scheme by which Georgia legislators were bribed in 1795 to sell most of the land now making up the state of Mississippi to four land companies for the sum of $500,000, far below its potential market value. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was a U.S federal statute devised by Henry Clay. The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
No matter who made the gold discovery in 1828, the gold rush started in 1829 in Lumpkin County. The Georgia Gold Rush id the second significant gold rush in the U.S. -
Worchester V. Georgia
In the court case Worcester v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1832 that the Cherokee Indians. -
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 east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. -
Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. The Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. -
Dred Scott Case
In 1857, the United States Supreme Court made a decision in the Dred Scott case. They had the right of slave owners to take thier slaves into the western territories. -
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 Mr. John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Mr. Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. -
Period: to
Union Blockade of Georgia
In Georgia, Union strategy centered on Savannah, state's most significant port city. Confederate defensive strategy, in turn, evolved with the Union blockade. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South, was fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. -
Battle of Chickamauga
The Battle of Chickamauga was fought on September 18–20, 1863. Braxton Bragg’s Army of Tennessee defeated a Union force commanded by General William Rosecrans in the Battle of Chickamauga. -
Period: to
Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
In early May 1864 Federal forces under Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman began battling the Confederate Army of Tennessee for possession of north Georgia. At stake was Atlanta, major manufacturing center and railroad hub. Sherman had 110,000 men and 254 cannon in three armies concentrated near Chattanooga. -
Period: to
Sherman's March to the Sea
Sherman's March to the Sea, more formally known as the Savannah Campaign, was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 to December 21, 1864 by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army. -
Freedman's Bureau
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. federal government agency established in 1865 to aid freedmen (freed slaves) in the South during the Reconstruction era of the United States, which attempted to change society in the former Confederacy -
Thirteenth Amendment
Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States. The 13th amendment, which formally abolished slavery in the United States, passed the Senate on April 8, 1864, and the House on January 31, 1865. -
Ku Klux Klan Formed
Ku Klux Klan. The definition of Ku Klux Klan is a secret society in the southern U.S. that focuses on white supremacy and terrorizes other groups. An example of the Ku Klux Klan is a group of men who are anti-black, anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic. -
Henry McNeal Turner
Henry was a minister and a politician. He was the 12th elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church -
Fourteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment addresses many aspects of citizenship and the rights of citizens. The most commonly used -- and frequently litigated -- phrase in the amendment is "equal protection of the laws", which figures prominently in a wide variety of landmark cases, including Brown v. Board of Education (racial discrimination), Roe v. Wade (reproductive rights), Bush v. Gore (election recounts). -
Fifteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". -
Capital moved to Louisville
Despite the designation of the new capital city, Augusta continued to serve as the state capital for ten more years, until 1796. The
Atlanta has served as the capital city of Georgia since 1868. The current gold-domed capitol building, completed in 1889, houses the General Assembly in downtown Atlanta.
Georgia State Capitol
gold-covered capitol dome in the Atlanta skyline signifies that the city is home to Georgia's state government. -
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. -
Period: to
Andersonville Prison Camp
The Andersonville National Historic Site, located near Andersonville, Georgia, preserves the former Camp Sumter, a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the final twelve months of the American Civil War. It was located at 760 POW Rd, Andersonville, GA 31711 and it had 514 acres.
