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Jan 1, 1000
Paleo Culture
The Paleo Cultuer exsited 12,000 years ago. They ate mammmoths, sloths, sabertooth tigers, and other meat animals. They followed them around while they were in packs. They were hunting them they stabbed them with spears to kill the Mammoths. -
Jan 1, 1000
Archiac
The archiac indians were the first to use pottery. They hunted the same animals as the paleo indians. They used the same weapons at first but then the climate changed and the big animals died and became extinct. they then had to use thin spears to hunt the smaller animals that came to them. this time period lasted from 8000 B.C and 1000 B.C. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland
The woodland indians were the first to use pottery for cooking. They were the first to start to settle in places as tribes. They were the first to make the bow and arrow. They were also the first to succsesfully plant food and it grow. -
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mississippian
The mississippian indians were the first to start making tribes. They stayed with that tribe. They made houses of wood they made an axe. They used stuff like plants and stuff -
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Hernando de Soto
He was looking for gold in Georgia. The reason is cause he heard that the native americans had gold. It is true that they did have gold. It was not from a gold mine it was from wreked spanish ships. He was cruel and killed thousands of native americans. He used weapons and dieases . He died a failure and did not find any gold. -
Charter of 1732
A charter is a legal document that grants special rights. It is signed by King George. the charter is between the Savannah and Altanama rivers. There are certain things excluded from the charter for example catholics, blacks, lawyers, and out lawed liquor. According to the charter trustees could not pass laws without the kings permission -
Georgia Founded By James Oglethorpe
He (James Oglethorpe) wante da new colony to help the poor. he did not like the prisons because of the conditions. it would also help against enimes. Before he could take the land he had to get permission from the cheif of the yamacraw indians. The king also had to give him permission to use the resources to build the new colony -
salzburgers arrive in georiga
The salzburgers arrived from austria for religous reasons. They were being persecued by the catholics in Europe. James Oglethorpe provided them with land and they named it Ebeneser. They moved because the the land was no goodand named there new home the new ebenezer -
Highland Scots arrive in georiga
The Highland scots were recruted by James Oglethorpe to help protect the new colony from the Spanish. They were from scotland and were considered great warriors. The scots were big and strong and not afraid of anything. They settled in a land they would call Darrien. -
Elijahe Clark
He lead troops to the battle of Kettle Creek. Defeated a group of 800 brithish soldiers. He got needed weapons, horses, and supplies. -
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John Renolds
He was georigas first governor. Also a caption in the british royal navy. He expected in start results and resisted any challenge to his authority. He relinqushed the govenment to Ellis on Febuary 16 1757 -
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Henery Ellis
He is the second governor of Georiga.He has been called Georgias second founder. Georiga greeted him with enthasiasm when he arrived. Poor health forced Ellis to leave Georiga in November 1760. -
Austin Dabney
He was the first non white to fight against the british. He was also a freedom malatio. He was injured in battle. He was also the first non white to own land in the new colony. -
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James Wright
Wright was a popular and able administartor and servant of the crown. He was the third governor of Georiga. He was govenor during the American Revolution. -
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American Revolution
The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783. During which the Thirteen American Colonies broke from the British Empire and formed an independent nation.The American Revolution was the result of a series of social, political, and intellectual transformations in American society. -
American Revolution
This was a result of the british putting tax on everything. This made the colonist angry. They dumped all the tea into the boston harbor. The colonist rebeled against the British. -
Constitutional Convection of 1787
This was a meeting of all the states in Philadelphia to discuss changes that needed to be done to the articles of confederation. Each state was there and took part in writhing the US constitution. Abraham baldhin and wo;;oam fe were Georigas represenatives. -
Yazoo land fraud
This is when the govenor and state legislature sold land at very low prices. They had to bribe them into buying it. They had to give back all the land that they sold and then had to pay back all the money that they took. -
invention of the cotton gin
This was made by Eli Whitney. It was a machine that made it easier to seperate the cotton seed from the actual cotton. Before the invention of the gin it took hundreds of hours to seperate the fibers. The increase of production had a heavy need of slavery. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
This event speed up the Indian removal act. This was when there was gold found on indian land and the government wanted to get them off the land faster so they could mine it. Over 10,000 miners flocked to georiga. -
Indian Removal act
The govenment forced Indians out of there home and there land. They were took and sent to western parts of georiga. They did not want to leave but the government sent some soilders to force them out. -
Worcester vs. Georiga
Worcester was a white missionary living in cherokee territory . This was against the law. He was arrested and sent to court for trail. He was in favor of the indians. In the end Georiga won. -
Compromise of 1850
This attempted to keep states together. California had a choice of being a slave state or a free state. It chose to be a free state. the slave states got Mexico and Utah. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
This repiled every thing that the missouri compromise said. -
dred scott case
Dred Scott toke a case to court cause he was a slave living in a free country. The court said it was not valid cause he was a slave. -
Union Blockade
Abraham Lincoln is the one who put this into place. Many attempts to run the blockade were successful. The blockade runners were operated largely by the British. -
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Andersonville
The first inmates began arriving at the Andersonville prison in February 1864. It was still under construction when they arrived. The prisoner-exchange system between the North and South collapsed in 1863 over disagreements about the handling of black soldiers. This is one reason the prisoner camp was so bad after this 100 prisoners or more were brought into the camp every day -
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March to the sea
Sherman's bold move of operating deep within enemy territory and without supply lines is considered to be revolutionary in the annals of war. Sherman's "March to the Sea" followed his successful Atlanta Campaign of May to September 1864. -
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Jim Crow Laws
The Jim Crow laws were racial segregation laws enacted between 1876 and 1965 in the United States at the state and local level. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy, with, starting in 1890, a "separate but equal" status for African Americans. The separation in practice led to conditions for African Americans that tended to be inferior to those provided for white Americans, systematizing a number of economic. -
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World War I
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Black Tuesday
During the 20s, real estate values were on the continuous rise. This was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States. This crash signaled the begging of the 10 year Great depression. -
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations. in most countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s. -
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Roosevelt’s New Deal
The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States. New Deal produced a political realignment, making the Democratic Party the majority. -
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WW2
Hitler started the war by invading Poland. Great Britan and France promised to help poland they declared war on Germany. America supplied the state it thought would benifit it with military supllies -
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Mayor Hartsfield
He hired eight African American police officers for restricted duties. This was a move unheard through out most of the south. -
Pearl Harbor
Japenese war planes staged a surprise attack on the U.S Pacific Fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawii.They killed over 2,300 military personell and citizens. and destroyed nine ships. -
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Holocaust
This was the killing of over 6 million pepole labled as undesirable the nazis killed them before and during WW2. Many were killed by starvation, disease, mis treatments and medical experiments. Prisoners including the children were gassed in chambers they thought were showers. -
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Brown vs. Board of Education
Linda Brown tried to enroll in a all whites school. When entry was denied the naccp helped Browns father sue the Topeka Board of Education. This case reached the supreme court. The supreme court said that seperate but equal was unsonstitutional. It ordered racial intergration of schools with all deliberate speed. -
1956 State Flag
They changed the flag because the civil war flag was offendeing to some african americans. Tourist did not come as often cause of this. this flag was chanded in 2003 on May 9th. -
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Mayor Allen
The day he toke office he ordered all white and black sighns on the city hall to be token off. He removed the restrictions on the african american policemen and put some in the cities fire department and city goverment. -
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Jimmy Carter
Before he became President, Carter served as a U.S. Naval officer. He was also peanut farmer. During Carter's term as President, he created two new cabinet-level departments. -
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1996 Summer Games
The 1996 Summer Olympics, known officially as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad. They were unofficially as the Centennial Olympics. International Olympic Committee voted in 1986 to separate the Summer and Winter Games.
