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University Of Georgia Founded
University of Georgia or UGA, is one of the oldest educational building in Georgia. The university was the first university in America that was produced by a state government. It was chartered by the Georgia General Assembly in 1785. -
Eli Whitney And The Cotton Gin
The Cotton Gin was created by a man named Eli Whitney, and was invented to speed up the process of picking seeds out of the cotton. Eli Whitney drops his ideas of studying law and works on the patent for his new invention. The Cotton Gin through the South into the modern world of creation. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
The Yazoo Land Fraud was a major scheme that took place post Revolutionary War. Georgia Legislators were persuaded to sell the land that takes up modern day Mississippi, for $500,000, which is way below the true potential value of the land. -
Capital Moved To Louisville
Georgia Capital was moved to Louisville after the commission ,appointed by the legislature, to find a new spot for the capital. The legislature said that the capital could not come within twenty miles of an indian trading post know as Galphin's Old Time. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an endeavor by Congress to keep the piece between pro-slavery states and anti-slavery states. At the time America was a balance of slave states and free states, and the admittance of Missouri as a slave state would ruin the symmetry of the U.S. In an attempt to keep the peace, Congress decided to pass a compromise that stated, Missouri could become a slave state, while Maine will become a free state. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
The Dahlonega Gold Rush was a significant event in American history, and was the second biggest gold rush in America. Rumors broke out that there was gold in the rivers of Cherokee Nation, and in modern day, North Georgia. Prospectors intruded in the Cherokee Nation and forced the indians of the land out of their homes for the sole purpose of gold and greed. -
Worcester V. Georgia
Worcester vs. Georgia was a case that the Supreme Court decided on the conviction of Samuel Worcester for breaking the Georgia law of prohibiting a white man to live among the Native Americans. He also tried to stop Andrew Jackson's "Indian Removal Act" and set up protest against him. -
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Trail Of Tears
The Trail of Tears was the indian removal act authorized by Andrew Jackson. In this act indian nations and tribes had to give up their land so Georgians could come and mine for gold. The trail covers 2,200 miles of land and water routes in nine states. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a combination of five separate bills authorized by the United States Congress. The bills disseminated a four year political war between slave states an free states. -
Georgia Platform
The Georgia Platform was an adopted proclamation. The act was the cause of the diffusion between slave states and the free states. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S Congress. This act allowed people in territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide themselves whether or not to allow slavery within in their borders. -
Dred Scott Case
The Dred Scott Case was the court case of Dred Scott V. Sanford. Dred Scott was a slave that lived in a free state and then in a slave-state. Dred argued that being in those locations entitled him to be set free from social and political restrictions, but the court argued that he would not gain freedom whether he lived in a slave-state or a free-state. -
Election of 1860
The election of 1860 was a presidential election between Republican candidate, Abraham Lincoln, and Democrat candidate, John C. Breckinridge. The outcome of the debate was a winning by Abraham Lincoln. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam was the first fight in the Civil War to be fought on northern ground. The fight was fought between the town of Sharpsburg,Maryland and Antietam Creek. It concluded General Robert E. Lee's first invasion of a northern state. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was a proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln, who was the President and a Union supporter, and it stated that "All persons held as slaves within the rebel states are, and henceforward shall be free." The proclamation freed 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves. -
Battle at Gettysburg
The Battle Of Gettysburg was a battle that was considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. It was fought after General Robert E. Lee led his army of North Virginia into Pennsylvania. The war lasted for 1 day and was full of heavy fighting in Gettysburg. -
Battle Of Chickamauga
The Battle of Chickamauga was a fight between the Union,led by Major,General William Rosecrans, and the Confederate,led by General Braxton Bragg. The battle was fought after Rosecran's troops kicked Braxton Bragg's confederates out of Chattanooga, the previous month. The battle was ended on September 19-20, 1863 after the confederates won. -
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Andersonville Prison Camp
The Andersonville Prison Camp was a prison that held over 26,000 Union soldiers. The prison was kept in wretched condition, and treated the prisoners inside even worse. Most of the men in the prison died from malnutrition,poor sanitation,disease, and exposure to the elements. -
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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 arounf Atlanta. -
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Sherman's March To The Sea
Sherman's March to Sea was a march to frighten Georgia's residents into relinquishing the Confederate cause, and though his troops did not destroy any towns, they did steal and burn down the houses of the people who fought back. The troops reached Savannah on December 21, 1864 and Sherman gave Savannah off to Abraham Lincoln as a Christmas gift. -
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Union Blockade of Georgia
The Union Blockade of Georgia was the evolution of Confederate defensive strategy. -
Thirteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment was the amendment in the United States Constitution that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, but it was officially put in to the Constitution after it was passed by the House of Rep. on January 31, 1865. -
Freedman's Bureau
Freedman's Bureau was a U.S Federal government agency made to aid freedmen in the South during the Reconstruction era of the United States. The Bureau was initiated by Abraham Lincoln. -
Ku Klux Klan Formed
The Ku Klux Klan or the KKK is a white supremacist organization, formed by six conservative veterans from Pulaski,Tennessee. This organization has been found to have committed many murders,lynching,arson and acts of terrorism, just to oppose african american rights. -
Henry McNeal Turner
Henry McNeal Turner was a pioneering church organizer and a missionary for the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Turner was also a politician in Georgia. Though being african american in those wretched times, he managed to get an education despite all odds against him. -
Fourteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment was the amendment in the United States Constitution that addresses the citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and it was proposed in regards of former slaves. The amendment was ratified on July 9, 1868. -
Fifteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment was the amendment to the United States Constitution that prohibits the federal and state government from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race,color,or previous condition of servitude. The amendment was passed by Congress on February 26, 1869, but was ratified on February 3, 1870.
