Georgia road map

Checkpoint 1

  • Period: 15,000 BCE to 7000 BCE

    Paleo

    They lived to the end of the Pleistocene Ice Age. They came to Americas from Asia either by land bridge or by a small water craft.
  • Period: 1000 BCE to 1000 BCE

    Woodland

    A suite of technological adaptations or traits and a family tree of Archiac cultures.
  • Period: Jan 1, 800 to

    Mississipian

    A subsystem of the geologic record or it is a subperiod in the geologic timescale.
  • Jan 1, 1496

    Hernando de Soto

    Made money in the Central American Slave Trade. He also supplied ships for Francisco Pizarro's southward expedition.
  • Highland Scots Arrive

    Highlanders are descendants of Celts which settled in northern mainland and in the islands of Scotland
  • Georgia Founded

    Was one of the southern colonies in British America. It was last of the thirteen original American colonies.
  • Charter of 1732

    The first twenty years of Georgia history are referred to as Trustee Georgia. England King George signed a charter in April 21, 1732
  • The Salzburgers Arrive

    the Salzburgers found a town named Ebenezer in what it is now called Effinghamm County.
  • Elijah Clarke/Kettle Cr.

    Among the few heroes of the Revolutionary War from Georgia.
  • John Reynolds

    John Reynolds was an officer of the Royal Navy. He served as the royal governor from 1754 to 1757.
  • Henry Ellis

    Henry Ellis is Georgia's second governor.
  • James Wright

    American colonial lawyer and jurist and he was the last British Royal Governor.
  • American Revolution

    The Thirteen American British Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy.
  • Austin Dabney

    Was a slave who became a Private in the Georgia militia and fought against the British during the Revolutionary War.
  • Georgia Ratifies Constitution

    Georgia Ratifies Constitution
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    Archaic

    The changing of climate conditions in which the area became drier and warmer than it is today.