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University of Georgia founded
The University of Georgia which is referred to as UGA. It is located in Athens, Georgia 70 miles of downtown Atlanta. It is the oldest, largest, and most comprehensive educational institution in Georgia. -
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin, which is a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton. Cotton had became America's leading export. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
The Yazoo Land Fraud was one of the most significant events in the Revolutionary War. Scheme by which Georgia legislators were bribed in 1795 to sell most of the land that now makes up Mississippi. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was the title generally is attached to the legislation that was passed by the 16th United States Congress. -
William McIntosh
William McIntosh was known as Taskanugi Hatke, he was the most prominent chiefs ever of the Creek Nation. He was every important during the turn between the nineteenth century and time of Creek removal to Indian Territory. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
The Gold Rush started in Dahlonega and started to spread in the North Georgia Mountains.When gold was found in Sierra Nevada many Georgia miners moved west to start the California Gold Rush. -
Worcester v. 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 "residing 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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Trail of Tears
The Trail 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 statesman who served as the 17th president of the United States. He served from the year 1829-1837. -
Capital Moved to Louisville
After the British were gone, the capital moved to Augusta. In 1847 the people were so unhappy with Milledgeville that they called an election. -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 was a package of 5 separate bills pasted to the United States Congress in September. The bills where passed which defused a year political confrontation 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 Stephen 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 propose of was meant to stop Southern commerce 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 Prison Camp
This prison camp preservers the former Camp Sumter, a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the final twelve months of the American Civil War. -
Thirteenth Amendment
The 13th amendment 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 United 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 of 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. -
Freedman's Bureau
The Freedman’s 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 hep 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
John Ross became principal chief of the Cherokee Nation in 1827, following establishment of a government modeled on that of the United States. -
Fourteenth Amendment
The 14th amendment addresses many aspects of citizenship and the rights of citizens. It’s known for “equal protection of laws.” -
Fifteenth Amendment
The 15th amendment to the Untied States Constitution prohibits the federal and states government form denying a citizen the right to vote. It’s known as the “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” -
Dred S
This case was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on United States labor law and constitutional law.
