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The University of Georgia which is referred to as UGA. It is located in Athens, Georgia 70 miles of downtown Atlanta. It is the oldest, largest, and most comprehensive educational institution in Georgia.
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Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin, which is a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton. Cotton had became America's leading export.
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The Yazoo Land Fraud was one of the most significant events in the Revolutionary War. Scheme by which Georgia legislators were bribed in 1795 to sell most of the land that now makes up Mississippi.
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The Missouri Compromise was the title generally is attached to the legislation that was passed by the 16th United States Congress.
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William McIntosh was known as Taskanugi Hatke, he was the most prominent chiefs ever of the Creek Nation. He was every important during the turn between the nineteenth century and time of Creek removal to Indian Territory.
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The Gold Rush started in Dahlonega and started to spread in the North Georgia Mountains.When gold was found in Sierra Nevada many Georgia miners moved west to start the California Gold Rush.
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This was a case that included, Samuel Worcester and others, all non-Native Americans, were indicted in the supreme court for the county of Gwinnett in the state of Georgia "residing within the limits without a license.”
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John Marshall was an American politician and fourth Chief Justice of the United States. The court helped lay the basis United States constitutional law.
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The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of Native American people from their ancestral homelands in the Southern United States.
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Jackson was an American soldier and also statesman who served as the 17th president of the United States. He served from the year 1829-1837.
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After the British were gone, the capital moved to Augusta. In 1847 the people were so unhappy with Milledgeville that they called an election.
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The compromise of 1850 was a package of 5 separate bills pasted to the United States Congress in September. The bills where passed which defused a year political confrontation between slave and free states.
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The Georgia Platform is a statement of qualified support for the U.S. Union among Georgia conversations following the Compromise of 1850. This took place in Milledgeville Georgia.
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This act treated the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and later drafted by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas. The actually purpose of the act was to open up thousands of new farms and make a railroad.
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The United States Presidential election of 1860 was the 19th presidential election to select President and Vice President of the United States. The election was held on a Tuesday.
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The propose of was meant to stop Southern commerce and hurt the Confederacy during the Civil War.
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This was an executive order issued by President Lincoln freeing slaves in all portions of the U.S.
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This was a battle fought between the Army of the Cumberland under Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans and the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Gen. Braxton Bragg, and was named Chickamauga Creek.
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This prison camp preservers the former Camp Sumter, a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the final twelve months of the American Civil War.
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The 13th amendment was to declare that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where’d the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist with the United States.”
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This was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864.
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The March to Sea was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November till December.
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The Freedman’s Bureau was made to help millions of former black slaves and port whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War. This bureau hep provide food, housing, and medical aid.
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The Ku Klux Klan was known as the KKK extended to almost every southern state and became a vehicle for white southerns. This was a group of the most infamous and oldest of Americans which became a hate group.
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John Ross became principal chief of the Cherokee Nation in 1827, following establishment of a government modeled on that of the United States.
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The 14th amendment addresses many aspects of citizenship and the rights of citizens. It’s known for “equal protection of laws.”
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The 15th amendment to the Untied States Constitution prohibits the federal and states government form denying a citizen the right to vote. It’s known as the “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
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This case was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on United States labor law and constitutional law.
