Georgia History

By JDunham_Carver
  • Jan 1, 1539

    Spain

    Spain
    A Spanish military expedition begins four years of marauding large Native settlements,Ranging across the region now known as peninsular Florida to northern Arkansas and eastern Texas.Hernando de Soto
  • Jan 1, 1540

    Hernando de Soto

    Hernando de Soto
    • Hernando de Soto was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States
    • The first documented European to have crossed the Mississippi River
    • May 21, 1542,
    • Discovered the Mississippi River

  • Spanish Missions

    Spanish Missions
    +The Spanish missions in the Americas were Christian missions established by the Spanish Empire during the 15th to 19th centuries in an area extending from Mexico and the southwestern portions of what today are the United States, southwards as far as Argentina and Chile
    +During the Age of Discovery, the Catholic Church inaugurated a major effort to spread Christianity in the New World by converting indigenous peoples.

  • James Oglethorpe and Trustees

    James Oglethorpe and Trustees
    • James Oglethorpe conceived of and implemented his plan to establish the colony of Georgia
    • England in 1732 that the British government authorized the establishment of its first new colony in North America in more than five decades
    • Later that year he led the expedition of colonists that landed in Savannah early in 1733.
    • He directed the economic and political development of the new colony, defended it militarily, and continued to generate support and recruit settlers in England and other pa

  • Colony of Georgia

    Colony of Georgia
    • King George II issued Georgia’s first official charter.
    • Georgia’s Trustees held their organizational meeting and elected John Percival, Earl of Egmont, as president.
    • James Oglethorpe and a party of settlers crossed the Atlantic Ocean in the ship Anne to begin settlement of the colony of Georgia.

  • Malcontents

    Malcontents
    • A person who is dissatisfied and rebellious
    • During the early years of Georgia's settlement, the Malcontents issued the most vehement complaints. +The Malcontents first made their objections heard in 1735 shortly after their arrival in the new colony

  • Tomichichi

    Tomichichi
    • Tomochichi was a seventeenth-century Creek leader and the head chief of a Yamacraw town on the site of present-day Savannah, Georgia.
    • He gave his land to James Oglethorpe to build the city of Savannah.
    • Died: October 5, 1739, Georgia
    • Born: 1644, Georgia

  • Mary Musgrove

    Mary Musgrove
    • Mary Musgrove was a colonial American interpreter and negotiator of mixed Yamacraw and English ancestry.
    • Born: 1700, Georgia
    • Died: 1767, Liberty County, Georgia, GA

  • Salzburgers

    Salzburgers
    • The Salzburgers. On October 31, 1731, Archbishop Firmian of Salzburg, expelled twenty thousand Protestants who followed the teaching of Martin Luther.
    • Three hundred of these immigrants accepted the invitation of the Georgia Trustees to settle in a new Colony in Georgia.

  • France

    France
    • In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, distinct populations of French immigrants arrived in Georgia—Huguenots, Acadians, refugees from the French Revolution, and colonists in flight from slave rebellion in Haiti+ +The Huguenots were French Calvinists who fled religious persecution under Louis XIV; they came to Georgia via South Carolina. +The Acadians arrived in Savannah as unwilling emigrants
    • Acadia, the original French name for Nova Scotia, came under British rule in 1710.

  • Worthy Poor

    Worthy Poor
    • Early American patterns of publicly funded poor relief emerged mainly from the English heritage of early settlers.
    • The policies and practices of aiding the poor current in England when the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts were shaped primarily by the Elizabethan Poor Laws of 1594 and 1601, and the Law of Settlement and Removal of 1662.
    • The English poor laws classified poor/dependent people into three major categories and established a requirement for “residency”.

  • Mississippian IndIans

    Mississippian IndIans
    • Lasted from about A.D. 800 to 1600,
    • Mississippian people were horticulturalists.
    • Corn, beans, squash, sunflowers, goosefoot, sumpweed, and other plants were cultivated
    • Mississippian people were organized as chiefdoms or ranked societies
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