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The first university set by a state government.
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The modern cotton gin in the untied states was created by Eli Whitney. Whitney had applied for a patent in 1793, but the patent wasn't granted until 1794, and in 1807 it was finally validated.
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Georgia Legislative members were bribed of $500,000 in 1795, for selling land which is now made up of Mississippi.
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The fourth capital in the state of Georgia.
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Declared the District of Maine a free state, and Missouri territory w/o the restriction of slavery.
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The second largest gold rush in the United Sates, it spread fast to northern states as well.
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A case where the US Supreme court decided the sentence of Samuel Worcester.
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Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy was in place, and the cherokee nation was forced to migrate in present day Oklahoma.
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Henry Clay seeked a compromise between the north and the south, and that's when he introduced a series of resolutions.
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As a response to the Compromise of 1850.
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It allowed citizens of Kansas and Nebraska to decide if slavery would be prohibited or enforced within the territory's borders.
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Former slave Dred Scott had resided in a slave free state, had a court hearing and was not granted his freedom.
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Abraham Lincoln, republican, won against democrat John C. Breckinridge.
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During the civil war, the Union attempted to block our southern trade ports in Savannah, doing so they thought the Confederate's economy would collapse.
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The first field arm-level battle to take place on union land.
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Abraham Lincoln signed the final emancipation proclamation which ended slavery in all rebelling states.
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Union and Confederate forces battle in Pennsylvania during the Civil War.
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Marked the end of the Chickamauga Campaign.
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A US government agency set to aid freed slaves in southern states and territories.
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Georgia ratified the 13th amendment and prohibited slavery within the US.
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During the reconstruction of the southern part of the US, after the civil war, 6 Confederate vets came together in Pulaski, Tennessee to form the original KKK.
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A Georgia pioneer.
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The fourteenth amendment granted all persons born or naturalized in the US, a US Citizen. It included former slaves that had been freed by the 13th as well.
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That Us citizens should never be denied the right to vote no matter race, or previous condition of servitude.
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