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  • university of Georgia founded

    university of Georgia founded
    The legislator's approved the charter. made the university of Georgia the first university established by the state government.
  • Eli Whitney and the cotton Gin

    Eli Whitney and the cotton Gin
    Eli Whitney invented a machine that would change the production of cotton. The machine speed up the Process of removing seeds from the cotton .
  • Yazoo Land Fraud

    Yazoo Land Fraud
    In this time the Legislative was bribed to selling most of the land that now makes the state of Mississippi.
  • Capital moved to Louisville

    Capital moved to Louisville
    After the British left, the Capital was moved to Augusta but then Louisevile because a new city was being made.
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted.
  • dahlonega gold rush

    dahlonega gold rush
    The gold rush started in Lumpkin county and began spreading rapidly.
  • Worcester v. Georgia

    Worcester v. Georgia
    This was a case in which the united state supreme court choose that no one that's not native american native american shouldn't be allowed in native american land.
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    Trail of Tears

    Trail of Tears was a part of Andrew Jackson Indian removal policy, it got its name because a lot of people died on the trail.
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    The Compromise of 1850 was a set of bills passed by the untied states congress. They defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and slave free states.
  • Georgia Platform

    Georgia Platform
    The Georgia Platform was a statement released by a Georgia Convention in Milledgeville, Georgia on December 10, 1850 in response to the Compromise of 1850
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
  • Dred Scott Case

    Dred Scott Case
    The Dred Scott Case was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme It held that "a negro" whose ancestors were imported and sold as "slaves" whether enslaved or free could not be an American citizen .
  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860
    was the The elections in which Republican Abraham Lincoln won over Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge .
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    Union Blockade of Georgia

    In Georgia, Union strategy centered on Savannah, the state's most significant port city. Beyond Savannah, Union forces generally focused on securing bases of operation on outlying coastal islands to counter Confederate privateers.
  • Battle of Antietam

    Battle of Antietam
    It was the first Field army-level engagement in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War to take place on Union soil. It is the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with a combined tally of 22,717 dead, wounded, or missing.
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation
    The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and issued by President Abraham Lincoln. It purported to change the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved people in the designated areas of the South from "slave" to "free people ".
  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Battle of Gettysburg
    The Battle of Gettysburg is considered the most important battle of the American Civil War, by Union and Confederate forces.
  • Battle of Chickamuga

    Battle of Chickamuga
    Battle of Chickamuga this was the end of a Union offensive in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia.
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    Sherman's Atlanta Campaign

    This was a time of battle fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia
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    Sherman's March to the sea

    This was a military campaign of the American Civil War made through Georgia.