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GA History-Events
Students match the event in GA History with its description
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Trustee Period | the twenty-year period during which James Oglethorpe and 20 other Englishmen governed the Georgia colony; it was followed by the Royal period, during which the Georgia colony was under the leadership of John Reynolds, Henry Ellis, and James Wright. |
| French and Indian War | Conflict between the French and English which spilled over into North America; the British ultimately win |
| American Revolution | war of independence fought by the American colonists for freedom from British rule |
| Foundation of UGA | established as a nation's first public school of higher learning and a land grant university |
| Yazoo Land Fraud | fraudulent land sale of American Indian lands extending from Georgia's western border all the way to the Mississippi River |
| Death of William McIntosh | executed by his own people for illegally selling off the last of the Creek Indians' land in Georgia |
| Trail of Tears | forced removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia |
| Election of Abraham Lincoln | his presidency was won without any electoral votes from the Southern States |
| Battle of Chickamauga | a short-lived Confederate victory during the Civil War for control of a critical railway hu near the Georgia-Tennessee border |
| Battle of Atlanta | Civil War bettle resulting in the city being burned by Gen. William T. Sherman |
| March to the Sea | Gen. William T. Sherman's campaign of total destruction from Atlanta to Savannah during the Civil War |
| Reconstruction | the period of time after the Civil War when the federal government sought to reintegrate the former CSA into the Union |
| International Cotton Expositions | held in Atlanta in an effort to attract northern and European investment in the industrialized "New South" |
| Atlanta Riot | a riot in the the state's capital resulting in the unjury and death of many in the black community; it began after falsified news reports were published in the local papers about race-related violence in the city |
| Lynching of Leo Frank | his death also marked the resurgence of the KKK in Georgia |
| World War I | multinational conflict, mostly fought in Europe, which Georgia supported via troop training |
| Great Depression | economic downturn triggered by the 1929 stock market crash |
| Pearl Harbor | Surprise attack on Hawaii by the Empire of Japan, which brought the U.S. into World War II |
| End of the White Primary | ruled unconstitutional and in violation of the 14th Amendment |
| Flag Change | Georgia's incorporation of the Confederate battle emblem into its state flag in 1956 to protest racial integration |
| Albany Movement | unsuccessful attempt to integrate interstate bus station waiting rooms during the Civil Rights Movement |
| March on Washington | massive protest, with MLK as the keynote speaker, in order to urge Congress to pass civil rights legislation |
| XXVI Summer Olympic Games | held in Atlanta in 1996 |
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