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The legislature's approval of the charter on January 27, 1785 made UGA the first university established by a state government.This provided the framework for what would become the American system of publicly supported colleges and universities.
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a cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily removes seeds from cotton. Farmers could do up to 50lbs of cotton a day.
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the Yazoo land fraud was when Georgia legislators were bribed to sell most of their land. the land now makes up the state of Mississippi.
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Louisville grew as the result of large scale immigration to Georgia Louisville served as Georgia's third capital from 1796 until 1807.
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The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri to allow slavery. Congress already had 22 states divided between slave and free.
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The gold rush started in 1829 in Lumpkin County and began spreading rapidly. Lumpkin County is about sixty-five miles north of Atlanta in the Blue Ridge province.
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The U.S. Supreme Court held in 1832 that the Cherokee Indians constituted a nation holding distinctive sovereign powers.Georgia conducted a relentless campaign to remove the Cherokees.
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The trail of tears was part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy. The Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and move to now modern day Oklahoma.
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The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress to end confrontation between free and slave states.
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The Georgia Platform was a statement executed by a Georgia Convention in Milledgeville Georgia on December 10 1850 in response to the Compromise of 1850.
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this act allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery in their territories. This act repealed the Missouri compromise of 1820.
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The U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford.. The case had been brought before the court by Dred Scott a slave who had lived with his owner in a free state before returning to the slave state of Missouri.
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Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge. The election split between Northern and Southern.
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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.
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The Army of the Potomac, under the command of George McClellan, mounted a series of powerful assaults against Robert E. Lee’s forces near Sharpsburg, Maryland.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln.
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The Battle of Gettysburg was considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. On July 1 the advancing Confederates clashed with the Union’s Army commanded by General George G. Meade.
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Bragg called for reinforcements and launched a counterattack on the banks of nearby Chickamauga Creek. Over two days of battle, the rebels forced Rosecrans to give way, with heavy losses on both sides.
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Andersonville Georgia served as the site of a well known Confederate military prison. Andersonville was the South’s largest prison for captured Union soldiers.
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Union general William T Sherman faced off aginst confederate generals in a goal to destroy the army of Tennessee. This would let him capture Atlanta and cut off vital supply lines.
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Union General William T. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285 mile march from Atlanta to Savanna. The purpose of this “Mar was to frighten Georgia's civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause.
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This was to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South. Some 4 million slaves gained their freedom as a result of the Union victory in the war.
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The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution officially abolished slavery in America. most people did not like this amendment .
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The 14th amendment granted black African american citizenship.
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The 15th Amendment granting African American men the right to vote.
