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University Of Georgia Founded
First university established by state gov. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
Georgia legislators sold most the land consisting of all Mississippi and some of Georgia. -
Missouri Compromise
Admission of permeating slaves -
Eli Whitney And The Cotton Gin
Inventor Eli Whitney born in 1765 made and panted the cotton gin which increased the production of cotton greatly -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
The gold rush started in 1828 but in Lumpkin Ga it started in 1829 and spreed quickly -
Worcester V. Georgia
Laws were passed for the Cherokee Indians in Georgia -
Battle Of Chickamauga
Tennessee army lead by Braxton Bragg defeated a union army commanded by William Rosecrans -
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Trail Of Tears
The Indian removal policy forced all the Indians moved to present day Oklahoma -
Capital Moved To Louisville
The capital was moved to Augusta then Louisville after the British left -
Compromise Of 1850
Stopped four year war between free states and slave states -
Georgia Platform
Statement in response to the compromise of 1850 -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
People in Kansas & Nebraska were to deiced if they wanted or not wanted slavery -
Election of 1860
Presidential election with Abraham Lincoln against John C. Breckinridge. Abraham won. -
Dred Scott Case
Scott tried to gives blacks entitlement pleaded to the court and the court said black free or slave can't be U.S citizens -
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Union Blockade Of Georgia
Focused confederate privateers on outlying coastal islands. -
Battle Of Antietam
Commander George McClellan launched series of attacks on the military force ran by Robert E. Lee -
Emancipation Proclamation
Given by Abraham Lincoln it was an executive order -
Battle Of Gettysburg
Most important arrangement of the American civil war -
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Andersonville Prison Camp
Confederate war prison during the last bit of months of the civil war. -
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Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
Atlanta Campaign was a series of battles fought in the Western part of the American Civil War throughout north Georgia and the area around Atlanta. -
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Sherman's March to the Sea
It was a military campaign of the civil war conducted through Georgia. -
Thirteenth Admenment
US ended slavery -
Freedman's Bureau
Was a U.S. federal government agency to aid freed slaves -
Ku Klux Klan Formed
Formed all around the sothrn states of the US torturing and killing newly free colored slaves. -
Henry McNeal Tuner
First black Chaplin in United states colored tropes -
Fourteenth Aendment
Granted equal rights and protection to slaves -
Fifeteenth admendment
Gov. can't deny right to vote or citizen ship based on color, race, previous history.
