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Emancipation Proclmation
the fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation -
University of Georgia founded
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Fifteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's -
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney invented a simple machine that influenced the history of the United States. He invented a cotton gin that was popular in the South. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
Yazoo land fraud, in U.S. history, scheme by which Georgia legislators were bribed in 1795 to sell most of the land now making up the state of Mississippi then a part of Georgia's western claims to four land companies for the sum of $500,000 far below its potential market valu -
Compromise of 1850
February 16, 1820 - The Senate agreed to unite the Maine and Missouri bills into one bill.In 1854, the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act -
missouri compromise
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. ... In 1854, the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. -
Missouri Compromise
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state In 1854, the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska -
William Mclntosh
was one of the most prominent chiefs of the Creek Nation between the turn of the nineteenth century and the time of Creek removal to indian territory. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
t started in 1829 in present-day Lumpkin County near the county seat, Dahlonega, and soon spread through the North Georgia mountains -
worcester v. Georgia
a case in which the United States Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester and held that the Georgia criminal statute that prohibited non-Native Americans from being present on Native American lands -
john marchall
John Marshall was an American politician and the fourth Chief Justice of the United States -
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trail of tears
The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocation, sometimes at gunpoint, of Native American nations from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States -
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837 -
compromise of 1850
As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished -
Georgia Platform
The Georgia Platform was a statement executed by a Georgia Convention in Milledgeville, Georgia on December 10, 1850 in response to the Compromise of 1850 -
Kansas nebraska act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. -
Dread Scott Case
Sandford, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled that a slave who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States -
Election of 1860
United States presidential election of 1860. United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election held on Nov. 6, 1860 -
Union Blockade of Georgia
The battle between ship and shore on the coast of Confederate Georgia was a pivotal part of the Union strategy to subdue the state during the Civil War. -
Battles of Chickamuga
The Battle of Chickamauga, fought on September 18 – 20, 1863, between U.S. and Confederate forces in the American Civil War, marked the end of a Union offensive in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia -
sherman's Atlanta Campaign
The Atlanta Campaign was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864. -
Andersonville Prison Camp
The Andersonville National Historic Site, located near Andersonville, Georgia, preserves the former Camp Sumter, a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the final twelve months of the American Civil War. -
Freedman's Bereau
The Freedmen's Bureau, formally known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, was established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War. -
Thirteenth Amendment
he Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. In Congress, it was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31, 1865. -
Ku Klux Klan Formed
The Ku Klux Klan, commonly called the KKK or simply the Klan, is three distinct movements in the United States. They have advocated extremist reactionary positions such as white supremacy, white nationalism. -
John Ross
the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1828–1866, serving longer in this position than any other person. -
Capital moved to Louisville
After the British left, the capital was moved to Augusta, then Louisville while a new city was being built on the Oconee River, reflecting the western move of Georgia's populace.
