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After the British left the capital of Georgia was moved to Augusta. After many years people were unhappy and held an election to have it moved to Atlanta.
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When the university of Georgia was established Georgia became the first state to charter a state supported university.
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Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin. The cotton gin revolutionized the production of cotton
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In 1795 Georgia legislators were bribed to sell the land which now is the state of Mississippi.
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Congress passed a bill stating the slavery was allowed as long as slavery was forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana purchase.
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By late 1829 North Georgia was flooded of prospectors looking for gold.
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The supreme court convicted Samuel Worcester for living on Indian land without special permission from the government.
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The Cherokee nation was forced to give up its land. As result of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy.
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The United States congress passed a law that defused a four year political argument between free and slave states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American war.
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The Georgia platform was executed by a Georgia convention in response to the compromise of 1850
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It allowed people in the territories of Nebraska and Kansas to decide if they wanted to own slaves or not.
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Dred Scott was a slave that made an appeal to the Supreme Court in hopes of having freedom. This was denied
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This is the election that republican Abraham Lincoln won. It was between Republican Abraham Lincoln and democratic Jonh C. Breckinridge.
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The union Blockaded Savannah Ga ports. The states most significant port
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Confederate and union soldiers fight against each other in the civil war near Marylands Antietam creek
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The Emancipation Proclomation "Freed" all slaves in the United States of America
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The battle of Gettysburg was the largest battle fought in the civil war. This battle took place in Gettysburg Pennsylvania
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Braxton Bragg's army of Tennessee deafeated a union force commanded by general William Rosencrans
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Andersonvilles prison camp is the largest prison held for union soldiers captured by confederate soldiers.
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Federal forces under Maj. Gen. William T. Shermans began battling the confederate army in Tennessee for possession of North Georgia.
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The march to the sea was the most destructive campaign in the Civil war.
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A goverment agency formed in 1865 to help aid freed slaves with their new lives
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Thirteenth admentment says that slavory or invoulantary servitude shall not take place in the U.S.A unless punishment for a crime
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Waged violence against black and white republican leaders.
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When legislators decided to expel their African American friends Henry gave a speech
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The 14th admendment granted citizenship and equal civil rights to all African- Americans
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The 15th admendment granted African American people the right to vote
