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University of Georgia founded
When the University of Georgia was established by the General Assembly on January 27, 1785, Georgia became the first state to charter a state-supported university. -
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney patented the Cotton Gin, by a machine that changed the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. -
Yazoo land fraud
The Yazoo land fraud was one of the most significant events in the post Revolutionary War history of Georgia. On January 7, 1795, Georgia governor George Matthews signed the Yazoo Act, which transferred 35 million acres in present-day Alabama Mississippi to four companies for $500,000. -
Capital moved to Louisville
After the British left, the capital was moved to Augusta, then Louisville was a new city was being built on the Oconee River, reflecting the western of Georgia's populace. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was the title generally is attached to the legislature that was passed by the 16th United States Congress. -
William McIntosh
William McIntosh was known as Taskanugi Hatke, he was the most prominent chief ever of the Creek Nation. He was very important during the turn between the nineteenth century and time of Creek removal to Indian Territory -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
When gold was found in Sierra Nevada many Georgia miners moved west to start the California Gold Rush. -
Worcester vs Georgia
This was a case that included,Samuel Worcester and others, all non-native americans, were indicted in the supreme court for the county of Gwinnett in the state of Georgia reciting within the limits without a license -
John Marshall
John Marshall was an American politician and fourth chief justice of the United States. The court helped lay the basis United States constitutional law. -
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Trial of Tears
The Trial of Tears was a series of forced relocations of Native American people from their ancestral homelands in the Southern United States. -
Andrew Jackson
Jackson was an American soldier and also statesmen who served as the 17th president of the United States. He served from the year 1829 to 1837. -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 was a package of 5 separate bills pasted to the United States Congress in September. The bills were passed which defused a year political conformation between slave and free states. -
Georgia Platform
The Georgia Platform is a statement of qualified support for the U.S. Union among Georgia conversations following the Compromise of 1850. This took place in Milledgeville Georgia. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This act treated the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and later drafted by Democratic Senator A. Douglas. The actually purpose of the act was to open up thousands of new farms and make a railroad. -
Election of 1860
The United States Presidential election of 1860 was the 19th presidential election to select President and Vice President of the United States. The election was held on a Tuesday. -
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Union Blockade of Georgia
The purpose was meant to stop Southern commerace and hurt the Confederacy during the Civil War -
Emancipation Proclamation
This was an executive order issued by President Lincoln freeing slaves in all portions of the U.S. -
Battle of Chickamauga
This was a battle fought between the Army of the Cumberland under Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans and the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Gen. Braxton Bragg, and was named Chickamauga Creek. -
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Andersonville Prision Camp
The prison camp preserves the former Camp Sumter, a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the final twelve months of the Maerican Civil War -
13th admendment
The 13th admendment was to declare that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where’d the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist with the Inited States.” -
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Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign
This 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 if 1864 -
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Sherman’s March to the Sea
The March to Sea was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November till December. -
Freedmans Bureau
Freedmans Bureau was made to help millions of former black slaves and port whites in the south in the aftermath of the Civil War. This Bureau helped provide food, housing, and medical aid. -
Ku Klux Klan formed
the Ku Klux Klan was known as the KKK extended to almost every southern state and became a vehicle for white southerns. This was a group of the most infamous and oldest of Americans which became a hate group -
John Ross Cherokee
John Ross became principal chief of the Cherokee Nation in 1827, following establishment of a government modeled on that of the United States. -
14th admendment
The 14th admendment addresses many aspects of citizenship and the rights of citizens. It’s known for equal protection of laws. -
15th admendment
The 15th admendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and states government from denying a citizen he right to vote. -
Dred Scott
This case was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the United States labor and constitutional law.
