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When the University of Georgia was incorporated by an act of the General Assembly on Jan 1 , 27 , 1785 . Georgia became the first state to charter a state-supported university .
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Louisville is a city in Jefferson County , Georgia . Louisville was absorbed on January 26 , 1786 .
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When Eli Whitney left New England and Headed South in 1792 , he had no idea that the next seven months he would invent a machine that would completely alter the course of American history .
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The Yazoo Land Fraud was the most typical events in the Revolutionary War . Georgia was too weak to defend its vast western land claims .
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William McIntosh was a controversial chief of the Lower Creeks in early -ninteenth-century Georgia . His general opposed the United States and its efforts to obtain cessions of Creek territory alienatef him from many Creeks who opposed white encroachment on Indian land .
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Many Georgia miners moved west when gold was found in the Sierra Nevada in 1848 , starting the California Gold Rush . From the start of the Gold Rush , trade in the gold region suffered from a limited circulation of currency .
