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When the University of Georgia was incorporated by an act of the General Assembly on January 27, 1785. Also, he university was actually established in 1801 when a committee of trustees selected a land site.
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After the British left, the capital was moved to Augusta, then Louisville while a new city was being built on the Oconee River, reflecting the western move of Georgia's populace.
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Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber.
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In U.S history, scheme by which Georgia legislators were bribed in 1785 to sell most of the land now making up the state of Mississippi.
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William McIntosh was a controversial chief Lower Creeks in early-nineteenth -century Georgia. His general support of the United States and its efforts to obtain cessions of creek territory alienated him from many Creeks who opposed white encroachment on Indian Land.
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It started in 1829 in present-day Lumpkin County near the county seat, Dahlonega, and soon spread through the North Georgia mountains following the Georgia Gold Belt.
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John was an American politician and fourth Chief Justice of the United States. Marshall had been a leader of the Federalist Party in Virginia and served in the United States House of Representatives from 1799-1800.
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Andrew Jackson was an American soldier and statesmen who served as the seventeenth president of the United States from 1829-1837. Andrew Jackson sought to advance the rights of the comman man against a corrupt aristocracy.
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John Ross was the principle of the Cherokee Nation from 1828-1866, serving longer in this position than the other person.
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Worcester was a case in which the United States Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester and help that the Georgia criminal statue that prohibited non- Native Americans from being present on Native American lands without license from the state was unconstitutional.
