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1847 BCE
Capital moved to Louisville
After the British left, the capital was moved to Louisville while a new city was being produced on the Oconee water way. -
Yazoo land fraud
The Yazoo land fraud was one of the most important events in post Revolutionary history. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri compromise was an effort by the state to stop sectional and governmental rivalries. -
Eli Whitney and the cotton gin
Eli Whitney made the cotton gin, a machine that sped up the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. The first cotton gin was in Savannah Georgia. -
William Mcintosh
William McIntosh was a smart chief of the Lower Creeks in Georgia. His support of the United States and its efforts to aquire cessions of Creek territory made him different from many Creeks who opposed white encroachment on Indian land.He was assassinated in Carroll County Georgia. -
Trail of tears
At the start of the 1830s, almost 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida. -
Worcester v. Georgia
declined non native American from being there on Native American grounds. -
John Marshall
American polititian and fourth chief of justice. -
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson chose to Ignore the Supreme Court In the Name of Georgia’s Right to Cherokee Land. -
Dahlonega gold rush
It started in 1829 in Lumpkin County near the county, Dahlonega, and soon spread through the North Georgia mountains. -
Comromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 was a alliance of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress. -
Georgia Platform
Georgia Platform,a statement of support for the Union among Georgia conservatives following the Compromise of 1850. -
Kansas-Nebraska act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act created territories of Kansas and Nebraska and was drafted by Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois and President Franklin . -
Dred Scott case
Dred Scott,was a slave who lived in the state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving to the slave state of Missouri had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom. -
Election of 1860
. United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election happened on Nov. 6, 1860, -
Emancipation
the process of being free from legal restrictions -
Shermans Atlanta Campaign
The union forces lost battle of the atlanta campaign the confederates won also the battle of Kenesaw mountain. -
John Ross
John Ross became a chief of the Cherokee Nation in 1827, following the rising of a government modeled on that of the United States of America -
Jimmie Carter in Georgia
Jimmie carter was the only Georgian to become president of the united states and he also founded the carter center in Atlanta Georgia -
Andrew Young
Andrew young was an american diplomat,activist and pastor was an early leader in the civil rights movement -
The Albany movement
It was the first big movement in the civil rights era to have its goal
as the desegregation. -
March on Washington
civil rights leaders protested racial discrimination,Martin Luther King was involved in this march,the march took place in Albany Georgia. -
1964 civil rights act
The 1964 civil rights act ended segregation in public places and discrimination in the work place. -
Maynard Jackson elected mayor
maynard began politics at age 30 and founded the Georgia voters league his mom was the first black woman in Atlanta with a public library card. -
1996 olympic games
Billy Payne thought of the idea for the 1996 olympic games in Atlanta and an estimated 3.5 billion people watched the games -
Lester Maddox
Maddox was born in Atlanta Georgia in 1915 brought into a working class family and grew up in poverty.
