georgia [america]
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Province of Georgia
Georgia (America)
Establishment
June 1732: The corporate charter of Georgia was granted to General James Oglethorpe by king George II, for whom the colony was named. The charter was finalized by the King's privy council on June 9, 1732.
Chronology
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Was the war of independence of the United States of America (at the time the Thirteen Colonies) against Great Britain.
July 1776: United States Declaration of Independence: the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule.
Was a civil war in the United States of America between the central government (Unionists) and the secessionist Confederate States of America that occupied the southern States. The main cause of the war was the different economic system of the northern and southern states: the northern states were industrialized and had abolished slavery, whereas the southern states relied on slavery to run its plantation agriculture based economy. At the end of the war the Union occupied the southern states and slavery was abolished. .
2.1.Secession Phase
The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 caused a wave of southern states secessions in the United States. The secessionist states soon formed an independent country, the Confederate States of America.
January 1861: Within three months of Abraham Lincoln's election in November 1860, six Southern states withdrew from the Union.
February 1861: On February 4, 1861 six states, in which the plantation economy operated with slave labor was the most important economic factor, founded a federation of states independent of the USA, the Confederate States of America (CSA).
January 1733: The 1732 charter boundary provided that the new colony of Georgia would consist of all the land between the headwaters of the Savannah and the Altamaha rivers, with its eastern boundary formed by the Atlantic Ocean and its western boundary by the "south seas," a reference to the Pacific Ocean.
January 1763: Georgia expanded south of the Altamaha in 1762.
Disestablishment
January 1861: Within three months of Abraham Lincoln's election in November 1860, six Southern states withdrew from the Union.
February 1861: On February 4, 1861 six states, in which the plantation economy operated with slave labor was the most important economic factor, founded a federation of states independent of the USA, the Confederate States of America (CSA).
Selected Sources
Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Fredriksen, J.C. (2010): Chronology of American Military History - Volume 1, Facts On File, p.412
Secession Ordinances of 13 Confederate States (1861). Digital History. Retrieved on 25 September 2023 on http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=3953
