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University of Georgia founded
When the University of Georgia was incorporated by an act of the General Assembly on January 27, 1785. Also, he university was actually established in 1801 when a committee of trustees selected a land site. -
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. -
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
In U.S history, scheme by which Georgia legislators were bribed in 1785 to sell most of the land now making up the state of Mississippi. -
William McIntosh
William McIntosh was a controversial chief Lower Creeks in early-nineteenth -century Georgia. His general support of the United States and its efforts to obtain cessions of creek territory alienated him from many Creeks who opposed white encroachment on Indian Land. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
It started in 1829 in present-day Lumpkin County near the county seat, Dahlonega, and soon spread through the North Georgia mountains following the Georgia Gold Belt. -
John Marshall
John was an American politician and fourth Chief Justice of the United States. Marshall had been a leader of the Federalist Party in Virginia and served in the United States House of Representatives from 1799-1800. -
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was an American soldier and statesmen who served as the seventeenth president of the United States from 1829-1837. Andrew Jackson sought to advance the rights of the comman man against a corrupt aristocracy. -
John Ross
John Ross was the principle of the Cherokee Nation from 1828-1866, serving longer in this position than the other person. -
Worcester v. Georgia
Worcester was a case in which the United States Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester and help that the Georgia criminal statue that prohibited non- Native Americans from being present on Native American lands without license from the state was unconstitutional.
