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UGA Founded
UGA is one of the three oldest public schools in the country, as it was founded in 1785. -
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
In southern GA. The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney in 1793. The cotton gin improved cotton picking by allowing more cotton to be picked. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
the Yazoo land fraud controversy was a massive, real estate fraud perpetrated, in the mid-1790s, by Georgia governor George Mathews and the Georgia General Assembly (GGA). -
Capital moved to Louisville
The capital was moved here because at the time this was a geographical center of Georgia's population as they moved west. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri compromise was a United States federal statute devised by Henry Clay. It regulated slavery in the country's western territories by prohibiting the practice in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north, except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri. -
William McIntosh
Taskanugi Hatke (White Warrior) was Williams "Nick Name" he was one of the most prominent chiefs of the Creek Nation Between the turn of the 19th century. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
The Dahlonega Gold Rush started in 1829 in present-day Lumpkin County near the county seat, Dahonega, and soon spread through the North Georgia mountains, following the Georgia Gold belt. -
Worcester vs georgia
Worcester v. Georgia was a case in which the United States Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester and held that the Georgia criminal statute that prohibited non-Native Americans from being present on Native American lands without a license from the state was unconstitutional. -
John Marshall
John Marshall served as the 4th chief justice of the U.S. from 1801 to his death in 1835. Marshall also served as the Secretary of State under John Adams. He was also a Federalist (Hamilton's Party) from Virginia. -
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The Trail Of Tears
The trail of tears was a series of forced relocations of Native American nations in the united stated following the Indian Removal Act of 1830. -
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, in the Waxhaws region between North Carolina and South Carolina. A lawyer and a landowner, he became a national war hero after defeating the British in New Orleans during the War of 1812. -
The Compromise Of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of 5 separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a 4-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War. -
Georgia Platform
The Georgia platform was a statement executed by a Georgia convention in response to the compromise of 1850. Supported by Unionists, the document affirmed the acceptance of the Compromise as a final resolution of the section slavery issues while declaring that no further assaults on Southern rights by the North would be acceptable. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was an enslaved African American man in the united states who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters. -
Election Of 1860
American presidential election held on Nov. 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. -
Emancipation
Lincoln actually issued the Emancipation Proclamation twice. Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862, It stipulated that if the Southern states didn't cease their rebellion by January 1st, 1863 the Proclamation would go into effect. -
John Ross
John Ross AKA Koowisguwi was the principle chief of the Cherokee nation from 1828-1866, serving longer in this position than any other person.
