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University of Georgia founded
Abraham was the first president of the university. The university was actually established in 1801 when the committee of the board selected a land site. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
A scheme to sell most of the land, that is now making up Mississippi, to four land companies for $500,000. The act was revoked and the money was returned. -
Missouri Compromise
To preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. The title generally attached to the legislation passed by the 16th United States Congress on May 8, 1820. -
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin to speed up the process of removing seeds from cotton. Although the gin was successful it made little money because of patent-infringement issues. He was assigned as a pioneer of American manufacturing. -
William McIntosh
Leader of the Lower Towns. Supported General Andrew Jackson in the Creek War of 1813-14 which was part of an larger war of 1812 (1812-15). -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
In 1829, known as the Cherokee Nation, thousands of propectors were lusting for gold. Men from every state were so fascinated by the gold discovery that they were panning out the branches and making holes in the hillsides. -
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Trail of tears
In the 1830s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida.Working on behalf of white settlers who wanted to grow cotton on the Indians’ land, the federal government forced them to leave their homelands and walk thousands of miles to a specially designated “Indian territory” across the Mississippi River. -
Worcester v. Georgia
The case was filed by Worcester who claimed that his family’s forced removal was a violation of his constitutional rights.Chief Justice John Marshall reasoned that the United States, in the character of the federal government, inherited the rights of Great Britain as they were held by that nation. -
John Marshall
Almost having no formal schooling and studied law for six weeks, he remains the only judge in American history whose variation as a statesmen derived almost entirely from his judicial career. He was the most influential chief justice of the United States. Also is the principal founder of the U.S system of constitutional law. -
Andrew Jackson
Earned national fame for his leadership during the war between United States and Britain. Became the nations seventh president. His legacy was tarnished by his role in the forced relations of Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi River. -
Compromise of 1850
Consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery. Also The Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
Georgia Platform
The Georgia Platform established Georgia's conditional acceptance of the Compromise of 1850. It represented a collaboration between Georgia Whigs and moderate Democrats dedicated to preserving the Union. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Kansas-Nebraska Act infuriated many in the North who considered the Missouri Compromise to be a long-standing binding agreement. Eventually, however, anti-slavery settlers outnumbered pro-slavery settlers and a new constitution was drawn up. -
Dred Scott Case
A slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom. But the court decided that no black, free or slave, could claim U.S. citizenship, and therefore blacks were unable to petition the court for their freedom. -
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Union Blockade of Georgia
The Union blockade in the American Civil War was a naval strategy by the United States to prevent the Confederacy from trading. The blockade was part of a larger strategy called the Anaconda Plan. General Scott felt that the war could take a long time and that the best supplied armies would win. He wanted to keep foreign countries from shipping supplies to the Confederates. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln freeing slaves in all portions of the United States not then under Union control.Slavery was banned throughout the United States by the 13th Amendment. -
Battle of Chickamauga
Determined to reoccupy the city, Bragg followed the Federals north, brushing with Rosecrans’ army at Davis’ Cross Roads.In the end Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee defeated a Union force commanded by General William Rosecrans. -
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Sherman's March to the Sea
Union General William T. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of this was to frighten Georgia’s civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause. -
Thirteenth Amendment
United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
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Andersonville Prison Camp
It was built in early 1864 after Confederate officials decided to move the large number of Federal prisoners in and around Richmond to a place of greater security and more abundant food. Captain Henry Wirz, the prison’s commandant, was hanged in Washington, D.C., on November 10, 1865. Wirz was the only person executed for war crimes during the Civil War.Andersonville prison ceased to exist when the War ended in April 1865. -
Freedman's Bureau
Provided assistance to tens of thousands of former slaves and impoverished whites in the Southern States and the District of Columbia. It issued food and clothing, operated hospitals and temporary camps, helped locate family members, promoted education, helped freedmen legalize marriages, provided employment, supervised labor contracts. -
Ku Klux Klan Formed
Formed by a group of Confederate veterans convenes to form a secret society so that they could intimidate freed slaves so they couldn't exercise their rights. the KKK engaged in terrorist raids against African Americans and white Republicans at night, employing intimidation, destruction of property, assault, and murder to achieve its aims and influence upcoming elections. -
John Ross
Devoted his life to resisting U.S seizure of his people lands in Georgia. Lead his people to their new home west of the Mississippi River on the journey that came to be known as the Trail of Tears. -
Capital moved to Louisville
Majority of Georgia was unhappy with Savannah being state capital. When the British left the capital was moved to Louisville while a new city was being built over the Oconee River. -
Fourteenth Amendment
Granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. By directly mentioning the role of the states, the 14th Amendment greatly expanded the protection of civil rights. -
Fifteenth Amendment
Granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." Until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that legal barriers were outlawed at the state and local levels if they denied blacks their right to vote under the 15th Amendment.
