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  2. National Bank Act - Wikipedia

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    The National Bank Act (ch. 58, 12 Stat. 665; February 25, 1863), originally known as the National Currency Act, was passed in the Senate by a 23–21 vote, and was supplemented a year later by the National Banking Act of 1864. The goals of these acts was to create a single national currency, a nationalized bank chartering system, and to raise ...

  3. History of Georgia (U.S. state) - Wikipedia

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    A History of Georgia (1991). Survey by scholars. Coulter, E. Merton. A Short History of Georgia (1933) Grant, Donald L. The Way It Was in the South: The Black Experience in Georgia 1993; London, Bonta Bullard. (1999) Georgia: The History of an American State Montgomery, Alabama: Clairmont Press ISBN 1-56733-994-8. A middle school textbook.

  4. Timeline of the history of the United States (1860–1899)

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    1870 - Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, and Georgia are readmitted to the union; 1871 – Great Chicago Fire; 1871 – Treaty of Washington with the British Empire regarding Canada; 1871 - The New York Times published evidence of Tweed's rampant greed. 1871 - Civil Service Reform Act passes; 1871 - Ku Klux Klan Act; 1872 – Yellowstone National ...

  5. Georgia during Reconstruction - Wikipedia

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    At the beginning of Reconstruction, Georgia had over 460,000 freedmen. [1] In January 1865, in Savannah, William T. Sherman issued Special Field Orders, No. 15, authorizing federal authorities to confiscate abandoned plantation lands in the Sea Islands, whose owners had fled with the advance of his army, and redistribute them to former slaves.

  6. The National Bank of Georgia - Wikipedia

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    The National Bank of Georgia (U.S.), a commercial bank located in the Athens, Georgia in the United States National Bank of Georgia , the central bank of the country of Georgia Topics referred to by the same term

  7. List of regions by past GDP (PPP) - Wikipedia

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    Keersmaeker estimated that the British Empire's share of world GDP was 24.28% in 1870 and 19.7% in 1913. The empire's largest economy in 1870 was British India with a 12.15% share of world GDP, followed by the United Kingdom with a 9.03% share. The empire's largest economy in 1913 was the United Kingdom with an 8.22% share of world GDP ...

  8. Timeline of sovereign states in North America - Wikipedia

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    1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 Antigua and Barbuda: Island Caribs: 1632 Antigua [1] 1671 British Leeward Islands [1] 1816 Antigua-Barbuda-Montserrat [1] 1833 British Leeward Islands [1] 1958 West Indies Federation [1] [2] 1962 Antigua and Barbuda [1] 1981 Antigua and Barbuda [1] [3]

  9. History of Atlanta - Wikipedia

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    Atlanta received migrants from surrounding counties and states: from 1860 to 1870 Fulton County more than doubled in population, from 14,427 to 33,446. In a pattern seen across the South after the Civil War, many freedmen moved from plantations to towns or cities for work, including Atlanta; Fulton County went from 20.5% black in 1860 to 45.7% ...