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University of Georgia Founded
After the Revolutionary War in 1784 the General Assembly of Georgia designated 40,000 acres of land to establish a college. The University of Georgia was the first university in America to be created by a state government. -
Capital moved to Louisville
The commission was permitted to buy 1,000 acres of land to build a new capital. The new capital was named Louisville in honor of Louis the sixteenth of France because France helped America in the Revolutionary War. Louisville was designed after Philadelphia, America's first capital. -
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney was a United States inventor and manufacturer. Eli Whitney worked on a Georgia plantation tutoring kids and he noticed the slaves were having trouble picking seeds from cotton balls, so he decided to build an instrument that would allow the slaves to clean more cotton in a shorter period of time. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
The Yazoo Land Fraud is when Georgia legislators were bribed, in 1795, to sell most of the land now making up Mississippi to four land companies for $500,000 which was far less than it potential market value. By 1814 the US government had taken possession of the territory. The fraud was named after the Yazoo river which runs through most of the region that was sold. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to settle the sectional and political rivalries caused by the request of Missouri, in late 1819, for acceptance as a state in which slavery would be allowed. To keep peace in the country Congress arranged a two-part compromise, granting Missouri's request while accepting Maine as a free state. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
There are many stories of the beginning of Georgia's gold rush but no one really knows who made the first discovery or when. The county seat of Auraria was called Licklog before it changed to Dahlonega, in 1833, meaning either golden or yellow. After a few months of its establishment nearly 1,000 people were crowded into the settlement looking for gold. -
Worcester v. Georgia
Samuel Worcester was a native of Vermont and a minister affiliated with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Worcester was arrested for not leaving the Cherokee nation when told to but was later released because his lawyers argued that he served as a federal postmaster at New Echota and was there under authority of the federal government. -
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Trail of Tears
Andrew Jackson formed an Indian removal policy because of which the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its land east of the Mississippi river. After having to give up their land the Cherokee Indians had to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. This journey was called the Trail of Tears because many people died while migrating and the migration was very hard for the other people because of the severe weather. -
Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a list of resolutions in an attempt to find a compromise to avoid a disaster between the North and the South. Henry Clay had to leave because his compromise did not get a majority vote so when he left Stephen Douglas toke his place. Millard Fillmore was interested in the compromise so when president Zachery Taylor died,on July 9, the compromise became a law, in September. -
Georgia Platform
The Georgia Platform was a statement carried out by a Georgia convention in Milledgeville, Georgia in response to the Compromise of 1850. The compromise said that Georgia would abide by the compromise provisions as a permanent adjustment of the sectional controversy. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The act allowed the people in Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves if they want to allow slavery within their borders or not. The person behind the Kansas-Nebraska was Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois. The North believed that if the Compromise of 1820 was ignored then the Compromise of 1850 can be ignored as well which helped lead up to the Civil War. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was slave who had lived with his owner in a free state before returning to the slave state of Missouri. Dred argued that his time spent in these locations entitled him to emancipation. Scott was denied the emancipation because Cheif Justice Roger B. Tanley disagreed, he said that the court found that no black, free or slave, could claim U.S citizenship, and therefore blacks were unable to petition the court for their freedom. -
Election of 1860
The Election of 1860 is the election in which Republican Abraham Lincoln beat Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. In the months following the Lincoln's election seven southern states , led by South Carolina on December 20, 1860, quit, setting the stage for the American Civil War. -
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Union Blockade of Georgia
The Union blockade of Georgia was a naval strategy by the U.S. to stop the Confederacy from trading. Union forces usually focused on securing bases of operation on outlying coastal islands to counter Confederate privateers. -
Battle of Antietam
Generals Robert E. Lee and George McClellan faced off near Antietam creek in Sharpsburg, Maryland. The battle was a draw but the Confederate retreat gave Lincoln the "victory" he desired before issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential statement and executive order by President Abraham Lincoln. The Emancipation Proclamation did not free a single slave, it just changed the fight to preserve the nation into a battle for human freedom. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was Confederate General Robert E. Lee second invasion on Northern territory. Lee's second invasion failed and had resulted in heavy casualties. An estimated 51,000 soldiers were killed, wounded, captured, or listed as missing. -
Battle of Chickamauga
Major General William Rosecrans forced General Braxton Bragg's Confederate army out of Chattanooga. Determined to reoccupy the city Bragg followed the federals up resulting in the Battle of Chickamauga. This battle was won by the Confederates. -
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Andersonville Prison Camp
The Andersonville Prison Camp was a Confederate military camp and was called Camp Sumter. It was known for its unhealthy conditions and high death rate, approximately 13,000 Union prisoners died at Andersonville. -
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Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
Sherman's Atlanta Campaign was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta. Union General William T. Sherman won the Atlanta Campaign when he forced the surrender of Atlanta. -
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Sherman's March to the Sea
Sherman's March to the Sea was when Union General William T. Sherman led 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah. The purpose of this march was to scare Georgia's civilian population into disowning the Confederate cause. The soldiers did not destroy any of the towns in their path they only stole food and livestock and burned the houses and barns of the people who tried to fight back. -
Freedman's Bureau
The U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands a.k.a Freedmen's Bureau was established by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. The Freedman's Bureau provided food, housing, medical aid, established schools, and offered legal assistance. In 1872, Congress shut down the Bureau because of a shortage of funds and personnel, the politics of race and reconstruction, and pressure from white southerners. -
Thirteenth Amendment
The House of Representatives passed the 13th Amendment with a vote of 119 to 56. President Abraham Lincoln signed a joint resolution submitting the proposed 13th Amendment to the states. -
Ku Klux Klan Formed
The Ku Klux Klan is a white supremacist organization that has used acts of terrorism like murder, lynching, arson, rape, and bombing to oppose the granting of civil rights to African Americans. The clan got the first part of its name from the Greek word kyklos which means circle and the Klan part from the English word clan which means family. -
Henry McNeal Turner
Henry McNeal Turner was a pioneering church organizer, missionary for the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Georgia, politician, reconstruction-era state legislator from Macon, and an outspoken advocate of back-to-Africa emigration. Turner's "back to Africa never earned effective support from a majority of African Americans, but Turner still remained one of the most powerful black leaders during the difficult years of widespread economic distress and segregation enforced by Jim Crow laws. -
Fourteenth Amendment
The fourteenth Amendment states no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States nor can any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor can any state deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. The Republicans were for the fourteenth Amendment and the Democrats were against it. -
Fifteenth Amendment
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote. The Voting Rights Act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson and it aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that denied African Americans their right to vote under the 15th Amendment.
