Georgia History timeline two

  • University of Georgia founded

    University of Georgia founded
    In Augusta on February 13,1786, a meeting of the board of trustee was held. Higher education was recommended by the general assembly.
  • Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin

    Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
    the cotton gin was a very easier invention. It reduced the labor of the farmers removing the seeds out of cotton.
  • Capital moved to Louisville

    Capital moved to Louisville
    IN Atlanta skyline is a gold covered capital dome. There are five different state capitals.
  • Yazoo Land Fraud

    Yazoo Land Fraud
    One of the worst political scandals took place on the date of 1795. Creeks, Cherokees, and other Native Americans lived were many state leaders wanted to open up the land, but couldn't.
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    The meaning for this was an act on the Congress. They were admitted as a slave state.
  • William Mclntosh

    William Mclntosh
    He was killed by his own people. The Creek War was also called the Red Stick War
  • Dahlonega Gold Rush

    Dahlonega Gold Rush
    It is impotent because the lands of the Native Americans were entered by the army and they arrested 6 people including Worcester.
  • John Morshall

    John Morshall
    He was the longest chief justice. He was the fourth longest-serving justice in the U.S.He is best known for establishing the supreme courts.
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    Trail of Tears

    120 miles of rugged land marched over 1600 native Americans. 4,000 out of 15,000 of Native Americans died on that trail that is why they call it the trail of tears.
  • Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson
    He was born between North Carolina. He was the seventh president. He was a war hero, from the American Revolutionary War.
  • Compromise OF 1850

    Compromise OF 1850
    It was a package of five bills passed by the U.S. Texas was given 10 million dollars to pay for its debt because it lost territory.
  • Georgia Platform

    Georgia Platform
    The Georgia Platform consisted of a set of resolutions accepting the Missouri Compromise. The Georgia Platform was a convention over slavery.
  • Dred Scott case

    Dred Scott case
    The Dred Scott decisions was the culmination of the Dred Scott case. No blacks slaves or not slays were able to be a U.S. Citizen. The cose precded in the civil war.
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    The Kansas-Nebraska act allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska to decide if they want slavery in or outer their borders. Their is too sides, the pro-slavery group who supported the act and the anti-slave act who did not support the act.
  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860
    the election of 1860 was to further expose sectional, differences between those who wanted to abolish slavery and those who wanted to protect slavery. The Democratic Party held a convention in Chatterton,South-Carolina.
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    Union Blocked of Georgia

    It happened during the Civil War, and was located in southeast United States. It was used to block all supplies from getting to the southern states.
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation
    It granted freedom to the slaves. The state that slaves were freed from were manly the rebellion ones.
  • Battle of Chickamauga

    Battle of Chickamauga
    It was important to the Civil War because it was the second costliest battle of the Civil War.It was fought and a major victory.
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    Andersonville Prision Camp

    It was located near Southeast Atlanta. It held more prisoners than any other confederate Military Prisons.
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    Sherman's Atlanta Campaign

    It was a series of battles, witch were fought in Western Theater of the American Civil War. It was located in Georgia
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    Sherman's March to see

    It is also called the Savannah Campaign. Chioan William Tecumsen Sherman is know for his mach to sea on September 1st, 1864
  • Freedman's Bureau

    Freedman's Bureau
    It is formally known as the Bureau of Refugees. It was put together by the government to help free the slaves.
  • Thirteenth Amendment

    Thirteenth Amendment
    this amendment says that "Congress shall have power to enforce the article by appropriate legislative." On the first of February in 1865 Abraham Lincoln passed the law.
  • John Ross

    John Ross
    The Cherokee people traveled 1,000 miles away from G.A with John Ross He was the Chief of the Cherokee Nation in 1828-1866
  • Fourteenth Amendment

    Fourteenth Amendment
    It says that " The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation the provisions of this article." It also helped free the slaves.
  • Fifteenth Amendment

    Fifteenth Amendment
    It says that "Citizens of the U.S. to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the U.S. or by any State on account of race,color,or previous condition of servitude."
  • Ku Klux Klan formed

    Ku Klux Klan formed
    It was also called the KKK or the Klan. It secretly grew from secrete society. It was formed in Pulaski, Tennessee.