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Capital Moved to Louisvill
They moved it because they finally got power over it. And they thought it was silly for it to be in Atlanta. -
University of Georgia Founded
It was incorperated with the General Assembly. The company was really established in 1801. -
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney created the Cotton Gin. A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
They sold some of Georgia`s northwestern lands. They soon found out and sewed. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
While the discovery in Georgia in 1828 was the event that led to what is called the "Georgia Gold Rush", there were reports of gold in the North Georgia Mountains much earlier. -
Worcester V. Georgia
Chief Justice John Marshall laid out in this opinion that the relationship between the Indian Nations and the United States is that of nations. -
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Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears was a series of forced removals of Native American nations from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to an area west of the Mississippi River that had been designated as Native Territory. -
Compromis of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War.
