1. Sherman's March to the Sea

The March to the Sea, the Civil War's most destructive campaign against a civilian population, began...

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2. Walker, Alice (b. 1944)

Alice Walker is an African American novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, and activist. Her most...

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3. Oglethorpe, James Edward (1696-1785)

As visionary, social reformer, and military leader, James Oglethorpe conceived of and implemented his...

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4. Cherokee Removal

In 1838-39 U.S. troops, prompted by the state of Georgia, expelled the Cherokee Indians from their ancestral...

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5. Worcester v. Georgia (1832)

In the court case Worcester v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1832 that the Cherokee Indians...

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6. Ku Klux Klan in the Reconstruction Era

From 1868 through the early 1870s the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) functioned as a loosely organized group of political...

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7. Civil Rights Movement

The civil rights movement in the American South was one of the most significant and successful social...

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8. Slavery in Antebellum Georgia

When the Georgia Trustees first envisioned their colonial experiment in the early 1730s, they sought...

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9. Coca-Cola Company

The registered trademark of this multinational soft drink firm represents arguably the most widely recognized...

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10. Cotton

From the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century, there was no more important single factor in Georgia's...

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