Vocabulary List #3

infamous Civil War P.O.W. camp in Macon County, Georgia

• Andersonville

• Milledgeville

• Dublin

• Atlanta

the United States’ first written constitution that was very weak and had to be replaced

• Declaration of Independence

• Articles of Confederation

• Bill of Rights

• Charter of 1732

factory located in Marietta that produced B-29 bombers during WWII

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Griffin Industries

• Bell Bomber Plant

site of the Civil War battle to take place in Georgia that resulted in a Confederate victory

• UGA

• Dahlonega

• Chickamauga

• Andersonville

site of America’s first gold rush in 1828 that was also a factor in the Cherokee removal

• Milledgeville

• Atlanta

• Dahlonega

• Andersonville

federal agency created in 1865 to provide aid to former slaves

• Freedman's Bureau

• Georgia Bureau of Investigstion

• National Security Agency

• Georgia Platform

position supported by several prominent Georgia politicians who supported the Compromise of 1850

• Plessy vs Ferguson

• Jim Crow Laws

• Freedman's Bureau

• Georgia Platform

managing editor for the Atlanta Journal who was also known as the “voice of the New South”

• James Oglethorpee

• Henry Grady

• Jimmy Carter

created by state legislatures to deny citizenship to African-Americans

• Freedman's Bureau

• Articles of Confederation

• Jim Crow laws

• Georgia platform

the first state-sponsored university in the U.S.; founded in 1785

• UGA

• Georgia State University

• Ogechee Tech

• Georgia Southern University