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Eli Whitney was a Massachusetts native that only spent a few months living in Georgia. Born on December 8 1765, in Massachusetts Whitney was the son of a small farmer.
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The University of Georgia is the oldest and largest educational institution in Georgia. UGA is located in Athens–Clarke County, about seventy miles northeast of Atlanta.
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Georgia was too weak after the Revolution to defend its vast western land claims. Pressure to act continued to build on legislators until November 1794.
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The sudden influx of miners into the Cherokee Nation was known even at the time as the Great Intrusion. Gold rush towns sprang up quickly in north Georgia, particularly near the center of the gold region.
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In the court case Worcester v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1832 that the Cherokee Indians holding distinct sovereign powers.
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In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands. The Cherokee people called this journey the Trail of Tears.
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With the nation facing the potential threat of disunion over the passage of the Compromise of 1850. Georgia, in a special state convention, adopted a proclamation called the Georgia Platform. The act was instrumental in averting a national crisis.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act act of 1854 may have been the single most significant event leading to the Civil War.
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Southern politicians struggled during the crisis.
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In 1857, the United States Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories
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The sectional crisis of the 1850s, in which Georgia played a pivotal role, led to the outbreak of the Civil War (1861-65). Southern politicians struggled during the crisis to prevent northern abolitionists from weakening constitutional protections for slavery.
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with the nation facing the potential threat of disunion over the passage of the Compromise of 1850, Georgia, in a special state convention, adopted a proclamation called the Georgia Platform. The act was instrumental in averting a national crisis
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Emancipation did not come suddenly or easily to Georgia. The liberation of the state's more than 400,000 slaves began during the chaos of the Civil War (1861-65) and continued well into 1865.
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The battle between ship and shore on the coast of Confederate Georgia was a pivotal part of the Union strategy to subdue the state during the Civil War (1861-65). U.S.
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The Battle of Antietam, a.k.a. Battle of Sharpsburg, resulted in not only the bloodiest day of the American Civil War, but the bloodiest single day in all of American history.
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In the summer of 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee launched his second invasion of Northern territory. Like his last foray that ended at bloody Antietam, Lee sought to score politically meaningful victories, take the war out of the ravaged Virginia farmland, and gather supplies for his army.
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Through a series of skillful marches towards the Confederate-held city, Rosecrans forced Bragg out of Chattanooga.Into Georgia. Determined to reoccupy the city, Bragg followed the Federals north, brushing with Rosecrans’ army at Davis’ Cross Roads
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Major General William T. Sherman's campaign in 1864 to capture Atlanta, Georgia, resulted in the loss of the Confederacy's most important railroad hub.
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in 1864, Union General William T. Sherman begins his expedition across Georgia by torching the industrial section of Atlanta and pulling away from his supply lines.
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in April 1865, Andersonville, Georgia, served as the site of a notorious Confederate military prison. The prison at Andersonville, officially called Camp Sumter.
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The words slavery and slave were never mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, until Georgia ratified the 13th Amendment and officially abolished slavery in the United States
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was a minister, politician, and the 12th elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; he was a pioneer in Georgia in organizing new congregations of the independent black denomination after the American Civil War.
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Klan's goals included the political defeat of the Republican Party. The maintenance of absolute white supremacy.
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the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868. And granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States which included former slaves recently freed.
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In 1867 Congress passed a law. Which requiring the former Confederate states to include black male suffrage in their new state constitutions
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Atlanta has served as the capital city of Georgia since 1868.
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In March 1865 the U.S. Congress created the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands to aid African Americans.
