Ga History Events

3. was a document outlined southern rights & devotion to the Union
4. Cheap labor was needed to grow and clean cotton
9. British raided Spanish ships, each pirated other
10. “gold fever”
13. White missionaries were living on Cherokee land. They did not want to have to leave
16. When Lincoln was elected Southerners felt it was time to secede from the Union
19. 1st method GA used to distribute land from 1732-1795
20. Started in 1837 as southern end of RR line; named Terminus
21. Union Navy closed ports and rivers to choke CSA imports and exports
22. There was a great struggle to balance the number of slave states and free states in Congress
23. was used to remove 15,000 Cherokee Indians to present day Oklahoma.
24. Tensions grew between Northern states and Southern states
25. this document declared that all slaves in the CONFEDERACY were free

1. Came to GA in search of religious freedom
2. Battle in NW GA where CSA army turned back Union soldiers
5. four private land companies bribed members of the General Assembly to pass a law
6. Arrived 5 months after colony began in July,1733
7. Products could be moved faster
8. Surveyors divided land into square lots.
11. First state chartered university in the United States (1785)
12. Republicans (new party)opposed slavery
14. AKA: Compromise of 1820
15. Established a settlement on GA’s Southern frontier along the Altamaha River
17. improved by eli whitney
18. “It was a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight.”