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Georgia Platform
The Georgia Platform was a statement executed by a Georgia convention. This was a response to the Compromise of 1850 -
University of Georgia Founded
The University of Georgia is a public university located in Athens, Georgia. It is was founded on January 27, 1785. -
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
The cotton gin was a machine invented by Eli Whitney designed to pull seeds out of cotton boles with ease. The machine was invented in -
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
The cotton gin was a machine invented by Eli Whitney in 1793. The machine was designed to separate cotton seeds from their boles rather than by hand. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
The Yazoo Land Fraud was a scandal in which private land companies bribed legislatures to change the law. This happened in 1795. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an attempt to defuse the sectional and political rivalries. Missouri wanted to be a state where slavery was allowed. -
William McIntosh
William McIntosh was chief of the Lower Creeks. McIntosh supported the United States. -
The Dahlonega Gold Rush
The Dahlonega Gold Rush was when people came to Dahlonega, Georgia in search of gold. People went to Dahlonega because large amounts of gold were found there and people wanted to try their luck. -
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Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears is a series of forced relocation. The Native Americans were forced to leave their homeland and move to places where the government made them live. -
Worcester v. Georgia
Worcester v. Georgia was a case where the natives had refused to be removed from their homeland. The Government then arrested Worcester and 6 other people. -
John Marshall
John Marshall was an American politician. He served as the fourth chief justice of the United States. -
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was the United States 17th president. He served as a United States soldier before his presidency. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a 4 year political confrontation between slave and free states. This lead to an American-Mexican war. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was an act passed by U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. The states that people within the Kansas and Nebraska borders to decide whether or not they want to allow slavery. -
Dred Scott Case
The Dred Scott Case was when a court ruled that a slave who resided in a free territory, no longer had freedom. The court also ruled that African Americans could not become or be U.S. citizens. -
Election of 1860
The Election of 1860 was when the president Abraham Lincoln ran for president. The republican defeated democrat Stephen Douglas. -
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Union Blockade of Georgia
The purpose of the Union Blockade was to block the Confederacy from getting supplies. The confederacy needed these supplies as they struggled against the Union. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was when the president Abraham Lincoln ordered all slaves be freed from all portions of the United States. -
Battle of Chickamauga
Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee defeated a Union force commanded by General William Rosecrans -
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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. -
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Sherman's March to the Sea
Sherman's March to the Sea was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864, by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army. -
John Ross
John Ross was the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation. John Ross signed the treaty of New Echota -
Capital Moved to Louisville
Georgia's capital was moved to Louisville in 1796 while a new city was being built on the Oconee River. The capital was moved because people wanted a capital closer to the center of the state.
