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Eli white and the cotton gin.
Eli Whitney,
The inventor of the cotton gin, Eli Whitney lived in Georgia for just a year, on Catharine Greene's Mulberry Grove plantation near Savannah. After learning of the difficulty planters had with separating seeds from fibers in upland, or "short-staple," cotton, he set out to create a machine that could perform such a task more efficiently. His invention, the cotton gin, revolutionized the southern
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Yazoo land fraud.
The Yazoo land fraud was one of the most significant events in the post–Revolutionary War (1775-83) history of Georgia. The bizarre climax to a decade of frenzied speculation in the state's public lands, the Yazoo sale of 1795 did much to shape Georgia politics and to strain relations with the federal government for a generation. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/search/advanced/yazoo%20land%20fraud -
Capital moved to louisville.
Louisville, the county seat of Jefferson County, also served as Georgia's third capital from 1796 until 1807. The town grew as the result of both large-scale immigration to the Georgia upcountry after the American Revolution (1775-83) and the desire of many Georgians to enhance the state's commercial prosperity. By the mid-1780s the new upcountry settlers outnumbered those in the older coastal countieshttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/louisville -
Dahlonega gold rush.
The gold-topped Price Memorial Hall, on the campus of North Georgia College and State University, rises above Dahlonega, the seat of Lumpkin County. The site of a gold rush in 1828-29,
the seat of Lumpkin County, lies about sixty-five miles north of Atlanta in the Blue Ridge province. The town is closely associated with Georgia's gold history; its name derives from a Cherokee word referring to the yellow color of gold.
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Worchester v. georgia.
In the court case Worcester v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1832 that the Cherokee Indians
Samuel Worcester, a missionary, defied Georgia through peaceful means to protest the state's handling of Cherokee lands. He was arrested several times as a result. With a team of lawyers, Worcester filed a lawsuit against the state that went all the way to the Supreme Court, where he finally won his case.
Samuel Worcester
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Trail of tears.
In 1838 and 1839
In his 1942 painting Cherokee Trail of Tears, Robert Lindneux depicts the forced journey of the Cherokees in 1838 to present-day Oklahoma.
Cherokee Trail of Tears
U.S. troops, prompted by the state of Georgia, expelled the Cherokee Indians from their ancestral homeland in the Southeast and removed them to the Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma.
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compromise of 1850.
Georgia native Howell Cobb served as congressman Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives governor of Georgia and secretary of the treasury .
Howell Cobb
were many southerners in the decades before the Civil War who preferred disunion over any concessions on slavery. radicals, often known as fire-eaters, called on the South to reject the Compromise of 1850 as an assault on the constitutional right of slavery.http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/georgia-platform -
georgia university
techs first commerce class graduated in 1916. all men with full time jobs they recieved three year bachelor of commercial science (bc.s) degrees.