Discovery of GA
Helped peaceful trade between settlers and Native Americans
Mary Musgrove
Supreme Court Chief Justice who ruled in favor of the Cherokees in Worcester v. GA
John Marshall
16th United States president during civil war
Abraham Lincoln
Gave Lincoln the city of Savannah as a gift during war
William Tecumseh Sherman
Founded Andersonville Prison
General Grant
James Oglethorpe
Creek Chief who sold remaining Creek lands to the U.S. government for $200,000
William McIntosh
Andersonville Prison Captain that got executed after the war
Captain Henry Wirz
Union General that pushed confederate soldiers out of Tennesee
William Rosecrans
Actor that assinated President Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Tribe that first traded with the settlers
Cherokee tribe
Chief of the Cherokee who went to Congress with 15,000 Creek signatures on a petition to protest Indian Removal
John Ross
Union general who led his armies to victory in civil war
Confederate general that turned down Lincoln when offered a job as union soldier
Robert E. Lee
Lived in Georgia during the Civil War and he saw the damage of the war.
Woodrow Wilson
Spanish explorer and conquistador who discovered Georgia in 1540
Hernando de Soto
The 7th President of the United States he enforced the Indian Removal Act and caused the Trail of Tears
Andrew Jackson
Union commander that was head of the army and burned Atlanta during his March to Sea
William T. Sherman
Confederate general that won Battle of Chickamauga
Braxton Bragg
Lincoln's vice president who took control after his assassination
Andrew Johnson
Cheif of Cherokee tribe
Tomochichi
Senetor that had the idea for The Misouri Compramise and Compramise of 1850
Henry Clay
Jefferson Davis
Led to Confederacy to their final win before surrendering
Thomas (stonewall) Jackson
Govener of GA during the civil war
Joseph E. Brown.