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Eli Whitney and the cotton gin
Eli was born in 1965 and made the cotton gin in 1794 that speed up the process of the production of cotton the the Georgia region. -
Yazoo Land fruad
It was a scheme that all Georgia Legislatures where bribed into selling all there land. Which now makes up the state of Mississippi. -
Missouri Compromise
It was made by congress to change the rivalries made by the request of Missouri in 1819. In that period of time twenty-two states were separated between the free and the slaved. -
Dahlonega Gold rush
They gold rush started in 1829 in Lumpkin county and started spread fast. It was the second significant gold rush i the united states -
Worcester v. georgia
It was held in 1832 and its was the Cherokee Indians versus the state of Georgia. It didn't protect the Cherokee Indians from from being removed from there homeland. -
Trails of tears
In 1838 through 1839 Andrew Jackson was removing all the Cherokee Indians and they were forced to give up there land. Through the east side of Mississippi to the present day Mississippi. -
Compromise of 1850
It was five bills passed by Congress in September .Which canceled a four year political confrontation between slaves and the free states regarding the states of territories. -
Georgia Platform
It was statement by a Georgia convection in Milledgeville on December 10,1850. It was a final resolution of the section of slavery. -
Kansas Nebraska act
It was act passed by the United states on May 30,1854. It allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to not allow slavery within their border. -
Dred Scott Case
He was a slave that lived with his owner in a free state before going back to a slave state on Missouri. -
Election of Antietam
It was the turning point of the Civil war. It took place four days after the battle of Antietam. -
Emancipation Proclamation
It was a presidential Proclamation made my Abraham Lincoln. -
Battle of Gettysburg
It was fought in the town of Gettyburg,Pennsylvania. It was fought through July first through July third. -
University of Georgia founded
in 1936 NAACP started this campaign. It earned a landmark victory in January 1961. -
Capital moved to Lousville
The gold covered dome in Georgia shows that Atlanta is the home of Georgia. Atlanta is the biggest know city in Georgia home of the golden covered dome which was moved to Louseville
