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di atisfied with the new constitution, put the State under military rule till another constitution was ratified in 1868; and the State was restored to the Union on its ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1869. On the refusal to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment the State was again placed under military rule, but reinstated on its compliance with this demand. The recent prosperity and development of Georgia’s resources has been due in large measure to the Cotton Exposition, in 1881, the Piedmont Exposition, in 1887, and the Cotton States and International Exposition, in 1895, all at Atlanta. Georgia (by the Ru ians called Grusia, by the natives Karthli), formerly a kingdom, but now included in the Ru ian government of Tiflis, though the name is sometimes loosely employed to designate a much larger portion of the territory po e ed by Ru ia S. of the Caucasus.