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Jan 1, 1000
Paleo
During the Paleo time period the sea levels rose more than 200 feet above the normal sea levels. The great continental ice sheets where retreating causing the coastline to rapidly move inland causing flooding. Also during this interval, there was a massive extinction of horses, elephants, camels, and other animals, and other kayos took place. And many spruce and pine forests where being replaced with Northern Hardwood forests. -
Period: Oct 11, 1000 to Oct 11, 1000
Mississippian
They where horticulturalists, they used simple tools like stone axes, digging sticks, and fire. The Mississippians caught fish, shellfish, and turtles from rivers, streams, and ponds. Mississippian people were not contemporary people. They spent most of their time outside. They cultivated, beans, corn, sump weed, sunflowers, and goose foot. -
May 11, 1539
Hernando De Soto
1500 - 1542
Hernando De Soto was an economist who found himself a terrorists target. Also De Soto wrote a book in 1986 called "The Other Path." De Soto created the institute for liberty and democracy in 1980 Hernando De Soto returned to Peru at the age of 38, and he was plagued with poverty and years of military rule. -
Georgia Founded
Georgia was founder James Edward Oglethorpe. -
Charted of 1732
The first 20 years of Georgia History is called Trustee Georgia because a borad of trustees goverend the colony during that time. King George of England signed the Charter on April 21st, 1732. -
Salzburgers Arrive
The Salzburgers were a group of German speaking protestant, colonists. The Salzburgers founded a new town called Ebenezzer, that town is now located in present day Effingham County. Built the forst water-driven grist. They also established the first Sunday school, and built the first orfanage in Georgia. -
Highland Scots Arrive
They were a group of Highland Scots that were recruted from a vicinity of inverness. They were recruited by James Edward Oglethorpe, to help defend the colony of Georgia. The introduce Presbyterianism to Georgia. -
John Reynolds
John Reynolds was born around 1713. He joined the British Navy at the age of 15. He became a captain in the British Navy. And was appointed governor of Georgia in 1754. He arrived in Savannah on October 29, 1754. -
henry Ellis
Henry Ellis was born in Liecester on May 12 of 1982. He earned a staub distinguished teachers award. -
James Wright
James Wright was born on May 8, 1716, He died Novemeber 20, 1785. He was an American Colonial Lawyer. Also he was a jurist, the third and royal governor of Georgia. -
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney had planned to be a private tutor but he decided to stay on Catherine Greene's plantation. Mr. Whitney secured a contract with the U.S. government and then made 10,000 muskets in two years. That was an amount of guns that has never been made in that short of amount of time. -
American Revolution
The American Revolution took place during the years of 1775 and 1783. During the American Revolution 13 colonies rejected the British Government. Also the overthrew the authority of Great Britian. And the founded the United States of America. -
Elijah Clarke Kettle Cr.
Elijah Clarke was a hero of the Revolutinary war,from Georgia. He supported the kings government at first but later joined the American Rebels. On February 14th 1779, as a lieutenant kolonel Clarke led a charge in the rebel win at kettle creek Georgia. -
University of Georgia founded
The University of Georgia was incorporated by the General Assembly. 1801 was the actual year the University was extablished. Josiah Meigs was president of the University and then the work began on the first educational building. Also in the year of 1804 the first class graduated from the University. -
Austin Dabney
Austin Dabney was a slave who became a private in the Georgia Militia. He fought against the British during the Revlutionary war. He was the only african american to be granted land by the state of Georgia, for his bravery and service during the Revoultion. -
Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention occurred from May 25, to September 17 1787 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. It took place to fix the problems that existed under the Articles of Confederation. A new government was created with the drafting of the United States Constitution. -
Georgia Ratifies the Constitution
2 Georgia Delegates sighned the New proposed Constitution in the summer of 1787. Those were Abraham Baldwin and William Fewd. Georgia had a special meaning in Augusta to consider the new constitution. All the delegates voted to ratify it on January 2, 1788. Georgia was the forth state to ratify it. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
Georgia's governor, George Matthews signed the Yazoo Act. Tis act was made to transfer 35 million acres to Alabama and Mississippi to four companies for 500,000 dollars. U.S. senator James Gunn wanted the act to succeed, so he arranged a corrupted distribution to legislators, state officials, news editors, and other influential Georgians. People who lived in Georgia became furious so they protested and did street demonstrations. -
Capital moved to Louisville
The country seat of Jefferson County, Louisville, served as the third capital for Georgia from the year of 1796 to the year 1807. A large scale immigration after the American Revolution cause the town to grow. The assembly passed a law that appointed Nathan Brownson, William Few Jr, and Hugh Lawson as commissionors charged for finding a site for the seat of government on the date of January 26, of the year 1786. The new capital was to be named mafter the king of France. -
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor of the United States. Washington was the dominate leader of the African-American community between 1890 and 1915. -
Tom Watson and the Populists
Tom Watson was born on September 5th in the year of 1856. Mr. Watson was a voice for populism and the disenfranchised. He supported the elimination of the States Convict Lease System. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was a Missouri slave that sued for freedom after his owner took him to the free territories of Wisconsin and Illinois. His case vs. Stanford was one of the most controversial cases in history. The supreme court ruled that blacks had "no rights which any white man is bound to respect. -
Emancipation Proclomation
On January 1st 1863, President Abraham Lincoon issued th eEmacipation Proclomation. The Emancipation Proclomation only applied to states that seceded from the Union. -
Battle of Gettysburg
In Gettysburg Pennsylvania on July 1 - 3 in 1863 the Battle of Gettysburg acured. Rabert E. Lee was the leared of the army. Pickett's charge was on July 3rd 1863, Lee sent no more than 15,ooo troops to the enemy's center. -
Battle of Chickamauga
The Battle of Chickamauga took place on September 18-20 in the year of 1863. This battle had the second highest number of casualities since the battle of gettysburg. -
Ku Klux Klan
On December 24 of the year 1865, the Ku Klux Klan was founded. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was a group of racist white people, the group employed violence as means of pushing back reconstruction and its enfranchisement of African Americans. The KKK's first Grand Wizard was Former General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Nathan tried to disband the KKK's after he grew critical of the klans violence but Nathan was unsuccessful. -
Atlanta Braves
On January 20, 1871, the Boston Red Stockings were incorporated by Ivers Whitney Adams with $15,000 and the help of Harry Wright, the "Father of Professional Baseball," who had founded and managed America's first truly professional baseball team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings. Two months later, the Red Stockings became one of nine charter members of the National Association of Professional Baseball Players and the forerunner of the National League. -
International cotton exposition
The international cotton exposition was a world fair in Atlanta. The cotton exposition was held in 1881 in Oglethorpe park. A model of Eli Whitney's original cotton gin, and new corn planters and seed cleaners were displayed at the exposition. -
William B. Hartsfield
At the age of twenty-five, Hartsfield became the secretary and law clerk at the law firm of Rosser, Slaton, Phillips, and Hopkins. He worked in the law offices during the day and read legal journals and books at night. His studies paid off when he was admitted to the Georgia Bar on July 7, 1917. In 1921 he left the firm and opened his own law office. -
Benjamin Mays
Benjamin Mays was born on August 1, 1894, he was an American Babtist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader
in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark United State Surpreme Court decision. The decision was hamded down by a vote of seven to one. Justice Henry Billings Brown wrote the majority opinion. The dissent was written by Justice John Marshall Harlan. -
1906 Atlanta Riot
The Atlanta Riot was a mass civil disturbance in Atlanta. It was a racial massacre of negroes. During this riot many white mobs killed dozens of blacks. All of this started when newspapers reported four alleged assaults but none of them were ever substantiated. -
Ivan Allen Jr
Allen ran for mayor in 1961 and defeated Lester Maddox. He took office in 1962 and later that year flew to Paris, France, to help identify the bodies of the Atlantans who perished in the Orly plane crash. Many of these people, members of the Atlanta Art Association, had been personal friends, and he felt that their families would want him there. -
Leo Frank Case
The Leo Frank Case was about a Jewish man in Atlanta that was convicted of raping and murdering a 13 year old girl. The man that covicted the defendant was Hugh M. Dorsey. Many Atlantans cheered on the prosecuter, because they wanted Leo frank to be convicted of murder. -
Herman Talmadge
Herman Talmadge was born on August 9, 1913
He serbed as governor of Georgia for a very short amount of time in early 1947, and again in 1948 to 1954.
He was elected U.S senate in 1956, he served until his defeat in 1980.
He was a staunch opponent of the civil rights legislation. -
County Unit Systym
The County Unit Systym was a voting systym used to determine a victor in statewide primary elections from 1917 - 1962. There was a total of 410 statewide votes. A candidate needs at least 206 votes to win the parties nomination. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. With the SCLC, King led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia (the Albany Movement), and helped organize the 1963 nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama. King also helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" -
1946 Governor's Race
The 1946 governor's race is known as the three governors controversy. When Eugene Talmadge died, the General Assembly chose his son, as governor. The lieutenant governor Melvin Thompson, objected and claimed that he should be the new governor. Ellis Arnall refused to leave the office. Georgia Supreme Court decided for Melvin Thompson. -
brown vs the bpard of education
by the mid-twentieth century, civil rights groups set up legal and political, challenges to racial segregation. In the early 1950s, NAACP lawyers brought class action lawsuits on behalf of black schoolchildren and their families in Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware, seeking court orders to compel school districts to let black students attend white public schools. -
Atlanta Hawks
The Atlanta Hawks are a professional basketball team based in Atlanta Georgia. In 1956, the St. Louis Hawks drafted legendary Bill Russell in the first round of basketball -
1956 State Flag
On The current Georgia state flag was the state's third in twenty-seven months. The new flag features the state coat of arms, surrounded by thirteen stars, which represent the original American colonies. State Flag, 2004
May 8, 2003, Governor Sonny Perdue signed legislation creating a new state flag for Georgia. The new banner became effective immediately, giving Georgia its third state flag in only twenty-seven months—a national record. Georgia also leads the nation in the number and variet -
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
SNCC grew into a large organization with many supporters in the North who helped raise funds to support SNCC's work in the South, allowing full-time SNCC workers to have a $10 per week salary. Many unpaid volunteers also worked with SNCC on projects in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, and Maryland. -
Sibley Commission
Reporters gather at Atlanta's city hall on August 30, 1961, the day that the city's schools were officially integrated. The recommendations of the Sibley Commission to the state legislature in 1960 contributed to the desegregation of schools across Georgia. Integration of Atlanta Schools
1960 Governor Ernest Vandiver Jr., forced to decide between closing public schools or complying with a federal order to desegregate them. -
Atlanta Falcons
On June 30, 1965, the Atlanta Falcons were born. The NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle granted ownership to Rankin M. Smith, Sr., the executive vice president of Life Insurance Company of Georgia.[1] The name Falcons was suggested by Julia Elliott (1909–1990) a high school teacher from Griffin, Georgia who won a contest in 1965. -
John Reynolds
John Reynolds was born in Cancaster PA and he died in Gettysburg PA. John Reynolds was a United States army officer. -
Woodland indians
The entire woodland indian era lasted from roughly 1000 B.C to 900 A.D. The term woodland Indians was created in 1932. They lived in huts, and they also had clans. The late woodland period began in 500 A.D. Many nomadic tribes formed permanent homesteads during the middle woodland period. The bow and arrow became a common use towards the end of the middle woodland era.
