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University of Georgia founded
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 could become the American system of publicly supported colleges and universities. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
Scheme by which Georgia legislators were bribed in 1795 to sell most of the land now making up the state of Mississippi. -
Capital moved to Louisville
When the British left, the capital was moved to Augusta, then Louisville while a new city was being built on the Oconee River. -
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
The cotton gin took the seeds out of the fiber of the cotton and it helped a lot back then.