Georgia History Checkpoint 2

  • University of Georgia founded

    Georgia was the first state to Charter supported university. 1784 the Generally Assembly had set 40000 acres.
  • Eli Whitney and the cotton Gin

    He painted the cotton Gin. A machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by speeding up.
  • Yazoo Land Fraud

    It was a massive real-estate fraud perpetrated, In 1790s, by George Mathews the Governor of Georgia.
  • Missouri Compromise

    In the years leading up to the Missouri Compromise of 1820 tension I began to rise between pro slavery & anti-slavery
  • William Mcintosh

    He was a controversial chief of the lower creeks in early nineteenth-century Georgia. He supported General Andrew Jackson in the Creek War of 1813-14
  • Dahlonega Gold Rush

    John Witheroods found a three ounce nugget along Duke's creek in Haber sham county
  • Period: to

    Trails of tears

    Beginig of the 1830s Almost 125000 Natives lived on a lot of Acres in the land of Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama.
  • Worcester V. Georgia

    Although the decision because the foundation of the principle of tribal sovereignty in the 20 centuary
  • Worcester V. Georgia

    Although the decision became the principle of tribal sovereignty in the 20 century.
  • John Marshall

    chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, John marshal, who had almost no formal school studied law for six weks
  • Andrew Jackson

    He was the only president to be held at war and he was the president to ever stay in a log cabin British solders courted him when was a teen. he was the first ever to served in two wars. He believe that the earth was flat
  • Capital moved to lousiville

    Than Louisville while a new city was being built on the oconee river.
  • Compromise Of 1850

    A settlement of differences by mutual concessions ; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing.
  • Georgia plattform

    Statement of qualified support for the U.S. Union among Georgia Conversation following the compromise of 1850
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    It was passed by the U.S. congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territory of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves weather not to allow slavery within their borders
  • Dread Scott Case

    A slave who had freedom but couldn't have he died and his wife & children had freedom
  • Election of 1860

    Republican Abraham Lincoln Defeated Democrat John C. Breckenridge. The election split between the north and the south Democrat was emblematic of the severe sectional split.
  • Election of 1860

    Republican Abe Lincoln Defeated Democratic John C. Breckenridge. The election split between Northern & Southern Democratic was nonathletic of the sever sectional split.
  • Emmancipation

    Americans tend to think of the Civil War as being fought to end slavery. Even one full year into the Civil War, the elimination of slavery was not a key objective of the North. Despite a vocal Abolitionist movement in the North, many people and many soldiers, in particular, opposed slavery, but did not favor emancipation.
  • John Ross Cherokee

    Tsan-Udi,(born October 3, 1790, Turkey town, Cherokee territory. He died august 1 1866, Washington, D.C., U.S.