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The University of Georgia was the birthplace for higher education. Abraham Baldwin and William Few were two of the leaders of the University of Georgia.
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By March 1796 the capital building was complete. Louisville was designated the "seat of government."
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Eli invented a simple machine that influenced the history of the United States. The cotton gin was a machine that speed up the process of removing seeds from the cotton.
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The Yazoo Land Fraud was one of the most significant events post Revolutionary War, in Georgia. Georgia governor George Matthews signed the Yazoo act.
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Benjamin Parks was walking through the woods in North Georgia and he kicked a stone over and it turned out to be gold.Thousands of miners swamped to Georgia.
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This was a case between Samuel Worcester and Georgia criminal statue. The case was about Non-Native Americans being on Native American land without a license.
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The trail of tears was apart of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal act. The Cherokee nation was forced to give up their land and head west.
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The Missouri Compromise was federal statute devised by Henry Clay. It regulated slavery in the country's western territories.
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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.
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The Georgia Platform was a settlement executed by a Georgia Convention in Milledgeville. The platform had significance throughout the south.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by Congress on May 30, 1854. This act allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska to decided whether or not to allow slavery.
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The case was brought to the U.S Supreme Court by Dred Scott. Dred Scott was a slave that lived with his owner in a free state before returning to a slave state.
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The United States presidential election was held on November 6, 1860. Which Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell.
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In Georgia, the Union strategy centered on Savannah. Beyond Savannah, the Union forces generally focused on securing bases of operation on outlaying coastal islands.
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The army of Potomac mounted a series of powerful assaults against Robert E. Lee's forces.The morning attacks and vicious Confederate counterattacks went back and forth through Miller's Cornfield.
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It was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln. It purported to change the legal status of more than 3 million enslaved people.
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The battle was in and around Gettysburg Pennsylvania. It was between the Union and Confederation forces during the Civil War.
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This battle was the most significant Union defeat in the Western Theater. It was the first major battle of war fought in Georgia.
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Andersonville was a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp. Most of the site lies in southwestern Macon County.
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The Atlanta was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater. Sherman's goal was to capture Atlanta and cut off the Confederation supply lines.
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Sherman's march to the sea is also known as Savannah's campaign. This was a military campaign of the American Civil War.
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Freedman's Bureau was a U.S federal government agency. It was established in 1865 to aid freed slaves.
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It was passed by congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6,1867. This meant amendment abolished slavery.
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Six Confederate veterans from Pulaski, Tennessee created the original Ku Klux Klan on December 24, 1865. This happened during the reconstruction of the South.
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Henry McNeal was a minister, politician, and the 12th elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a pioneer in Georgia in organizing new congregations of the independent black denomination.
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This amendment grants citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States. This includes all the former slaves that were freed during the civil war.
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It was passed by Congress on February 26, 1869, and ratified on February 3, 1870. This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
