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He was an American politician and the fourth president of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was Secretary of State under President John Adams, became the last of the leading judges to be born in colonial America.
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He was an American soldier and stateman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837.
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The capital moved to Augusta, then to Louisville after the departure of the British.
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William McIntosh was a controversial chief of Lower Creeks. His general support to the United States and his eforts to obtain cessions of Creek territory.
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The University of Georgia was the first to be supported by the state. It was also endowed by 40000 acres granted by the state, later a state governor, purchased and granted to the board of trustees the chosen land of 633 acres on the banks of the Oconee River
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The 15th Amendment, granting African-American men the right to vote, was adopted into the U.S. Constitution in 1870.
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The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
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He was the Chief Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1828 to 1866, serving more time in this position than any other person.
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In 1794, the United States-born inventor Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton
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The fraud of the land of Yazoo was one of the most significant events in the post-revolutionary War in the history of Georgia
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The measures provided for the admission of Maine as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state, thus maintaining the balance of power.
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Started in 1829 in present-day Lumpkin County, many Georgia miners moved west when gold was found in Sierra Nevada in 1848, beginning the California gold rush.
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The Trail of Tears was a forced relocation series, sometimes at gunpoint of Native American nations from their ancestral lands in the southeastern United States to other areas.
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It was a case in which the US Supreme Court overturned the conviction of Samuel Worcester and argued that Georgia's criminal statute prohibiting non native Americans from being on Native American lands without a state license.
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It was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850.
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The Georgia Platform was a declaration executed by a Georgia Convention in Milledgeville, Georgia on December 10, 1850 in response to the 1850 Commitment.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and was drafted by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois and President Franklin Pierce
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In March 1857, The Supreme Court Issued its decisions in that case, which had been brought before the court by Dred Scott, a slave.
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Emancipation Proclamation, edict issued by U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, that freed the slaves of the Confederate states in rebellion against the Union.
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Slavery was a prominent issue in the 1850's, dividing the United States, with the northern abolitionists against slavery and the Southerners for it.
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Atlanta Campaign Fires blazed while Union soldiers destroyed railroad tracks in Atlanta during the American Civil War. The scorched-earth policy of “total war” was characteristic of Sherman's March to the Sea.
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The Union Blockade operated in the Southern United States, the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico and major inland rivers, such as the Mississippi and in Northern Virginia.
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The Battle of Chickamauga was a bloody battle in Georgia in 1863. The Confederates were victorious in their attempt to keep the Union from marching on through Georgia.
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It was built in early 1864 after Confederate officials decided to move the large number of Federal prisoners in and around Richmond to a place of greater security and more.
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Sherman's March to the Sea is the name commonly given to the Savannah Campaign by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman taking place from November 15, 1864 to December 21, 1864.
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the 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist within the United States o any place subject to their jurisdiction
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Freedmen's Bureau, was established in the War Department by an act of March 3, 1865. The Bureau supervised all relief and educational activities relating to refugees and freedmen, including issuing rations...
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The Ku Klux Klan commonly called the KKK or simply the Klan, is three distinct movements in the United States that have advocated extremist reactionary positions such as white supremacy.
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The most commonly used,and frequently litigated,phrase in the amendment is "equal protection of the laws", which figures prominently in a wide variety of landmark cases, including Brown v.
