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University of Georgia founded
It is the country's oldest state chartered university,and birthplace of the American system of the public higher education.It is classified by the Camegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.It has been recognized as a Public Ivy considered to provide a quality of education comparable to those of Ivy league. -
Capitol moved to Louisville
When Savannah held the title of state capital majority of Georgia was unhappy.While the American Revolution was going on Augusta,Heard's Fort,and others served as temporary capitols.After the British left Augusta then Louisville served as capital.Until many wanted the capital moved to Atlanta. -
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
He patented the cotton gin a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton.It speed up the process of removing the seeds.Even though it was a success it made little money because of patent-infringement issues. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
It was one of the most significant events in the post Revolutionary War.Georgia was too weak to defend its western land claims.Georgia then signed the Yazoo Act transferring 35 million acres of land to four companies. -
Missouri Compromise
It was an effort to preserve the balance in Congress between slave and free states.It was put in place saying that Missouri was a slave state and Main was a free state.It prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory,but it was later repealed in 1854 by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. -
William McIntosh
He was a controversial cheif of the Lower Creeks.The general supported the US.General Andrew Jackson supported the Creek War of 1813-14 (Red Stick War) which was part of a larger war which is the War of 1812-15. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
It was the second significant gold rush in the US,but the first in Georgia.It started in present-day Lumpkin County and then it soon spread through the Northern Georgia mountains.Later many Georgia miners moved west to Sierra Nevada in 1848 starting the California Gold Rush. -
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Trail of Tears
The white Americans feared and resented the natives,and they felt that they deserved the land the Natives occupied.Then the Indian removal took place in the Northern states,but the bloody Black Hawk War in 1832 and opened millions of acres of land that belonged to Sauk,Fox,and other Natives.They were relocated to parts of Georgia,Alabama,North Carolina,Florida,and Tennessee. -
Worcester v. Georgia
It was a case in which the US Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester.The opinion is most famous for its dicta it laid out the relationship between tribes and the state and federal governments. -
John Marshall
He was an American politician and fourth Chief Justice.He was Secretary of State under President John Adams.When he was 45 he became last chief justice to be born in Colonial America. -
Andrew Jackson
He was an American solider and statesman who then severed as the seventh President from 1829 to 1837.He gained fame as a general and served in both houses of Congress. -
Compromise of 1850
It consists of five laws passed that dealt with the issue of slavery.Before in 1849 California it wanted to enter the Union as a free state ,and it would potentially upset the balance between free and slave states in the U.S. Senate.It helped with the Fugitive Slave Act,the slave trade in Washington D.C.abolishing it,it let California enter as a free state,creating a government in Utah,and settling a boundary dispute between Texas and New Mexico. -
Georgia Platform
It was a statement executed by a Georgia Convection in Milledgeville in retaliation to the Compromise of 1850.It was a final resolution in the sectional slavery issues it declared no further assaults on Southern rights by the North wouldn't be accepted. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It was passed to allow the people in Kansas and Nebraska territories decide whether or not to allow slavery in their borders.It served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 prohibiting slavery north of latitude 36 30.After the law was passed many pro and anti-slavery people rushed in to affect the outcome of the first election. -
Dred Scott Case
He was a slave who lived with his owner in a free state before going to a slavery state.He argued that his time spent in a free stated entitled him to the emancipation.Even though he did all of that the court decided that blacks,free or slave,could claim U.S. citizenship and therefore they were unable to petition for their freedom,and this outraged abolitionists and heightened the tensions between the North and South. -
Election of 1860
It was the American presidential election where Abraham Lincoln defeated John C. Breckinridge,Stephen A. Douglas,and John Bell.In the electoral split between Northern and Southern Democrats emblematic of the severe sectional split particularly over slavery.Months after seven Southern states,led by South Carolina December 20,1860 seceded then setting up the stage for the American Civil War. -
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Union Blockade of Georgia
It was the battle between ship and shore on the coast.It was pivotal part of Union strategy to subdue the state.President Lincoln called for a naval blockade of the entire Southern coastline which took time to materialize,and they fleet off the South's most prominent Confederate parts. -
Emancipation
It was also called Proclamation 95.It was a presidential proclamation and executive order.It then changed the legal status of more than 3 million enslaved people in a designated areas of the South from slave to free. -
Battle of Chickamauga
It was fought between U.S and Confederate forces.It marked the end of Union offensive.It was the first major battle fought in Georgia the most significant Union defeat,and it was the second-highest number of casualties after the Battle of Gettysburg. -
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Andersonville Prison Camp
When they first started arriving it was still under construction.It became necessary after the exchange collasped in 1863 between North and South because of disagreements over the handling of black soldiers. -
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Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
It was a series battle fought in Western Theater of the American Civil War.It was in the summer of 1864.Union General William Tecumseh Sherman had invaded Georgia from Chattanooga,Tennessee at the start of May in 1864,and opposed by Joseph E. Johnston. -
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Sherman's March to the Sea
It is also known as Savannah Campaign.It started with them leaving the captured city of Atlanta and ended with them capturing the port of Savannah. -
Ku Klux Klan
It waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence toward white and black republic leaders.After a period of decline they started burning crosses,staging rallies,parades,and marches denouncing immigrants,Cathloics,blacks,Jews,and organized labors.The Civil Rights Movement saw a surge of activity including bombings of black schools and churches and violence toward black and white activists in the south. -
Freedman's Bureau
It was established by an act of the Congress.Howard University a historically black college was established in 1867.It was named after Oliver Howard he was its founder and head of the Freedman's Bureau he served as president from 1869-1874 -
Thirteenth Amendment
It abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.It was passed by Senate on April 8,1864,but later by House in January 31,1865.It wasn't ratified till much later and adopted 11 days later on the 18th. -
John Ross
He was also known as Koowisguwi and he was the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.He influenced the Indian Nation in tumultuous events such as the relocation to Indian Territory and the American Civil War.He was the son of a Cherokee woman and Scottish man. -
Fourteenth Amendment
It addressed rights and equal protection of laws in response to issues related to fromer slaves.It was bitterly contested mainly by states defeated by Confederacy.They were forced to ratify it to regain representation in Congress. -
Fifteenth Amendment
It granted African American men the right to vote.The right to vote should not be denied to any citizen of the United States.Although it would not be passed for another century .
