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  • University of Georgia founded

    University of Georgia founded
    The University is the oldest and the largest in Georgia.In 2015 it was put on a list to be one of the best University out of 50
  • Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin

    Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
    Eli left England in need of a invention in 1792.That when she came up with the cotton gin
  • Yazoo Land Fraud

    Yazoo Land Fraud
    They were bribed to sell most of there land.The desput between Georgia and the land companies went own through the 1800s.
  • Dahlonega Gold Rush

    Dahlonega Gold Rush
    It was the second significant gold rush in the US.The best in Georgia
  • Worcester v.Georgia

    Worcester v.Georgia
    Held in the U.S. supreme court in 1832
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    Trail of tears

    The Indian were forced to give up there land east of the Mississippi river.It made them so mad because that broke there rights.
  • Capital moved to Louisville

    Capital moved to Louisville
    When Savanna held the state capital Most of Georgia was not happy.1847 people were tired of Millidgeille
  • Georgia Platform

    Georgia Platform
    It was a statement executed by a Georgia convention in Milledgeville.
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    It was effectivly repealed.
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    It let the people in Kansas and Nebraska chose to have slaves or not
  • Dred scoot Case

    Dred scoot Case
    It declared that all blacks were free.
  • Election of the 1860

    Election of the 1860
    It was a election that Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge
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    Union Blockade of Georgia

    President Abraham Lincoln called the war to start.
  • Battle of Antietam

    Battle of Antietam
    There was a army under Potomac.
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation
    President Lincoln ordered this to happen.
  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Battle of Gettysburg
    It had the most casualties of the entire war.
  • Battle of Chickamauga

    Battle of Chickamauga
    It was the first major battle fought in Georgia.
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    Sherman's Atlanta Campaign

    In just a few mouths after he started he had a lot of fights with the confederate solders.
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    Andersonville Prison camp

    It was a camp that killed a lot of people.
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    Sherman's march to the sea

    He took the troops to the destructive campaign on November 15
  • Freedman's Bureau

    Freedman's Bureau
    It was a federal government agency.
  • Thirteenth Amendment

    Thirteenth Amendment
    It was passed by all of the people.
  • Ku Klux Klan formed

    Ku Klux Klan formed
    They where in almost every southern state
  • Henry McNeal Turner

    Henry McNeal Turner
    He was one of the most influenced African American leaders.
  • Fourteenth Amendent

    Fourteenth Amendent
    It says that everybody has equal rights.
  • Fifteen Amendment

    Fifteen Amendment
    It says everybody is the same.
  • Compromise of the 1850s

    Compromise of the 1850s
    It was five bills passed by the US constitution.