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Jan 1, 1000
Paleo Period
Paleo Information
Paleo developed from asian migration across the bering straight land bridge. Nomadic hunter/gathers moving constantly following food sources. Their technology was large spear heads or clovis points. The food was large games animals as mammoths, bison, ground sloth, and sobor tooth tiger. They had no organized trade and they had no organized religion. -
Jan 1, 1000
Archaic Period
Archaic Information
Their lifestyle has seasonal migration, they return to their same spots each season which is called pattern dwellings. Caves, pithouses, underground shelters are becoming more reiant or groups. Their technology was simple pottery and spear heads to either storage things or to kill their food. Their food was large game animals which no longer exists. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland Period
Woodland Information
Their lifestyle was starting to form tribes no longer nomadic. They were starting to live in more perminant areas, round houses still resemble huts. Their technology was simple form bow and arrow and some pottery. There is some evidence of trade not organized. Their religion is, urial mounds, kolomoki, rock mounds, and rock eagle. -
Period: Jan 1, 1000 to
Mississippian Period
Mississippian Information
Their lifestyle began to form cities also established governments, chiefdoms, and social rankings. They had the first true civilization. Their technology include the most advanced bow and arrow, advanced pottery, statues, jewelry, and advanced stone tools. -
Nov 1, 1540
Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto Information
De soto came to Georgia in search of gold. He killed thousands of natives during battles. He had better weapons. Thousands of natives died from diseases brought by explorers. -
Charter of 1732
Charter of 1732 Information
Oglethorpe landed in Georgia at Yamacraw Bluff on February 12, 1733. However Georgia was actually formed in 1732 by the charter of 1732. the charter was signed by king George 2 granting the formation of the newst colony. It was signed in June of 1732 the charter was now a document. -
Georgia Founded
Georgia Founded Information
The date that Georgia was founded was on Feburary 12, 1732 which was when James Oglethorpe landed in Georgia. He wanted to make a new colony for the debtors and poor to start a new life. -
Salzburgers Arrive
Salburgers Information
The salzburgers were exicuted from their home country because they were protestants. They had arrived in Georgia on March 12, 1734. King George 2 invited the salzbugers to georgia to escape the catholic church. The salzburgers formed a society called ebenezer. Their first successes were the first saw mill, grist mill, silk production, and cattle farming. -
highland scots arrive
In 1739, Gabriel Johnston, royal governor of North Carolina and native Scotsman, encouraged 360 Highland Scots to settle in North Carolina and later provided them a ten-year tax exemption for doing so. Subsequent offers by Johnston attracted Highland Scots to North Carolina primarily for economic and political reason. -
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John Reynolds
John Reynolds Information
John Reynolds was the first royal governor. He tried to run the colony alone. He was self government. One of his major errors was a major disagreement between Reynolds and the legislature. -
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Henry Ellis
Henry Ellis Information
Henry Elli swas Georgias second royal governor. He brought together the people of the colony. He made some major accomplishments. He made econmic growth, growth of the population, and had a good relationship with the natives. He had suffered from heat related illness which led him out of office. -
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James Wright
James Wright Information
James Wright was Georgias third and final royal governor. He made Ellis' polocies better. It had led to expanding farms and trade. Owend land increased from one million to 7 million acres while he was in office. He mad Georgias first news paper. He had tried to move the captial away from savannah. -
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american revolution
The American Revolution is also known as the American Revolutionary War and the U.S. War of Independence. The conflict arose from growing tensions between residents of Great Britain’s 13 North American colonies and the colonial government -
georgia ratifies constitution
Georgia's first attempt at constitutional government was initiated in April 1776 by the Provincial Congress called by the Georgia Trustees in response to a series of mass meetings held throughout the colony. February 1777 and executed without having been submitted to voters for ratification, this constitution remained in effect for twelve years -
elijah clarke kettle creek
Among the few heroes of the Revolutionary War from Georgia, Elijah Clarke was born in 1742. Then on February 14, 1779, as a lieutenant colonel of militia, Clarke led a charge in the rebel victory at Kettle Creek, Georgia.All of Georgia and most of South Carolina fell to the British in 1780. Elijah Clarke and thirty men passed through the Native American lands to continue the fight in the Carolinas. -
university of georgia
The University of Georgia (UGA) is the oldest, largest, and most comprehensive educational institution in Georgia, and is moving to the forefront among public universities in the region and nation. Chartered by the Georgia General Assembly in 1785, UGA was the first university in America to be created by a state government. -
capital moved to lousiville
The commission appointed by the legislature in 1786 to find a new site for the capital was not entirely unbridled in its task.The legislature's mandate also stipulated that the commission select a location within twenty miles of an Indian trading post. The legislature also directed that the new capital site be called Louisville in honor of Louis XVI of France. -
austin dabney
Austin Dabney was a slave who became a private in the Georgia militia and fought against the British during the Revolutionary War. On August 14, 1786, Dabney became the only African American to be granted fifty acres, by the state of Georgia in recognition of his military service during the Revolution. -
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constitutional convention
The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met between May and September of 1787 to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation. The United States Constitution that emerged from the convention established a federal government with more specific powers -
eli whitney and the cotton gin
When Whitney first moved to Georgia in 1793, short-staple cotton had only recently been introduced to Georgia as a major market crop. The modern cotton gin, first patented by Massachusetts native Eli Whitney while in Georgia in 1793. It is a simple machine that separates cotton fibers from the seeds. -
yazoo land fraud
The Yazoo land fraud was one of the most significant events in the post-Revolutionary War. Georgia was too weak after the Revolution to defend its vast western land claims, called the "Yazoo lands". On January 7, 1795, Georgia governor George Mathews signed the Yazoo Act. -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise Information
Missouri is a slave state and maine is a free state. They attempt to keep balance between slave and free. Line drawn by the missouris southern border. North was free south slave. South supported because it kept the balance. Norht supported because it kept the balance. -
dalonega gold rush
There are several popular stories of the beginning of georgia's gold rush. No one is certain who made the first discovery. By late 1829 north Georgia, known at the time as the Cherokee Nation, was flooded by thousands of prospectors lusting for gold. The sudden influx of miners into the Cherokee Nation was known even at the time as the Great Intrusion. -
worcester v. georgia
In the court case Worcester v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1832 that the Cherokee Indians constituted a nation holding district soverign powers. Although the decision became the foundation of the principle of tribal sovereignty in the twentieth century, it did not protect the Cherokees from being removed from their ancestral homeland in the Southeast -
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henry mcneal turner
One of the most influential African American leaders in late-nineteenth-century Georgia,
One of the most influential African American leaders in late-nineteenth-century Georgia, Henry McNeal Turner was a pioneering church organizer and missionary for the African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E.) in Georgia.
Henry McNeal Turner
Henry McNeal Turner was a pioneering church organizer and missionary for the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) in Georgia, later rising to the rank of bishop. -
rural electrification
Although nearly 90 percent of urban dwellers had electricity by the 1930s, only ten percent of rural dwellers did. Private utility companies, who supplied electric power to most of the nation's consumers, argued that it was too expensive to string electric lines to isolated rural farmsteads -
trail of tears
At the beginning of 1830 nearly 125,000 native americans lived on millions of acres owned from their ancestors -
Compromise of 1850
It was the compromise to keep balance of the policies. North California enters as a free state. South has the fugitive slave law that all runaway slaves must be returned. Utah and New Mexico vote on slaves. -
Georgia Platform
Georgia Platform Information
After the compromise of 1850 Georgia adopeted a proclamation called the Georgia Platform. This act was averting a national crisis. there was tensions between the North and the South because of slavery. -
Kansas-Nebraska act
kansas nebraska act information
A law mandating popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska. Popular sovereignty for voting on slavery. Proslavery settlers from the missouri fight which was called bleeding kansas. South supported Kansas because it opened up land for slavery. North apposed to Kansas becuase it opened up territory for slavery. -
booker t washington
Born a slave on a Virginia farm, Washington (1856-1915) rose to become one of the most influential African-American intellectuals of the late 19th century. In 1881, he founded the Tuskegee Institute, a black school in Alabama devoted to training teachers. -
tom watson and the populists
Thomas E. Watson is perhaps best known to Georgians today by his imposing statue across the street from the Georgia capitol.His public life has been considered one of the most perplexing and controversial of all Georgia politicians. In his early years he was characterized as a liberal, especially for his time. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott Case Information
Scott was a slave whose owner moved to a free state. Scott sues for freedom stating that he should be free. Court rules that he is not free because he is not a citizen but property and remains property wherever the owner goes. South supported it becuase it opens up everywhere to slavery. -
alonzo herndon
An African American barber and entrepreneur, Alonzo Herndon was founder and president of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, one of the most successful black-owned insurance businesses in the nation. -
election of 1860
The Democrats met in Charleston, South Carolina, in April 1860 to select their candidate for President in the upcoming election.Northern democrats felt that Stephen Douglas had the best chance to defeat the black republicans.Although an ardent supporter of slavery, southern Democrats considered Douglas a traitor because of his support of popular sovereignty. -
union blackade of georgia
The battle between ship and shore on the coast of Confederate Georgia was a pivotal part of the Union strategy to subdue the state during the Civil War (1861-65). U.S. president Abraham Lincoln's call at the start of the war for a naval blockade of the entire Southern coastline took time to materialize, but by early 1862 the Union navy had positioned a serviceable fleet off the coast of the South's most prominent Confederate ports. -
battle of antietam
On September 17, 1862, Generals Robert E. Lee and George McClellan faced off near Antietam creek in Sharpsburg, Maryland, in the the first battle of the American Civil War to be fought on northern soil.Though McClellan failed toutlilize his numerical superiority to crush Lee’sarmy, he was able to check the Confederate advance intothe north. -
emancipation proclamation
When the American Civil War (1861-65) began, President Abraham Lincoln carefully framed the conflict as concerning the preservation of the Union rather than the abolition of slavery. Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that as of January 1, 1863, all slaves in the rebellious states “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” -
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battle of gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War.After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863. -
andersonville prision camp
The Camp Sumter military prison at Andersonville was one of the largest Confederate military prisons during the Civil War. During the 14 months the prison existed, more than 45,000 Union soldiers were confined here.During the 14 months the prison existed, more than 45,000 Union soldiers were confined here. Of these, almost 13,000 died here. -
shermans atlanta campaign
In the summer of 1864, during the U.S. Civil War (1861-65), Union General William T. Sherman faced off against Confederate generals Joseph E. Johnston and John B. Hood in a series of battles in northern Georgia.Sherman’s goal was to destroy the Army of the Tennessee, capture Atlanta and cut off vital Confederate supply lines. -
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shermans march to the sea
From November 15 until December 21, 1864, Union General William T. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of this “March to the Sea” was to frighten Georgia’s civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause -
freedmans buero
The U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, popularly known as the Freedmen’s Bureau, was established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War (1861-65) -
thirteenth amendment
The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution officially abolished slavery in America, and was ratified on December 6, 1865, after the conclusion of the American Civil War.The amendment states: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” -
ku klux klan formed
Founded in 1866, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for blacks. -
web dubois
William Edward Burghardt “W. E. B.” Du Bois (1868-1963) was was a leading African-American sociologist, writer and activist. Educated at Harvard University and other top schools, Du Bois studied with some of the most important social thinkers of his time. -
fourteenth amendment
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.In addition, it forbids states from denying any person "life, liberty or property, without due process of law" or to "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” -
fifteenth amendment
The 15th Amendment, granting African-American men the right to vote, was formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution on March 30, 1870. Passed by Congress the year before, the amendment reads: “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” -
john and lugenia hope
Lugenia Burns Hope was an early-twentieth-century social activist, reformer, and community organizer. Spending most of her career in Atlanta, she worked for the improvement of black communities through traditional social work, community health campaigns, and political pressure for better education and infrastructure. -
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international cotton expoaition
In the late nineteenth century, fairs and expositions were an important way for cities to attract
This engraving shows the 1887 Piedmont Exposition's main building. Located in Atlanta's Piedmont Park, the structure was 570 feet long, 126 feet wide, and two stories high. The Exposition opened on October 10 to nearly 20,000 visitors.
1887 Piedmont Exposition Main Building
visitors who, in an era before radio and television, were eager to see new technological marvels on display. These events prov -
eugene talmage
A controversial and colorful politician, Eugene Talmadge played a leading role in the state's politics from 1926 to 1946. During his three terms as state commissioner of agriculture and three terms as governor, his personality and actions polarized voters into Talmadge and anti-Talmadge factions in the state's one-party politics of that era. -
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benjamin mays
An African American minister, educator, scholar, and social activist, Benjamin Mays is perhaps best known as the longtime president of Morehouse College in Atlanta. Benjamin Elijah Mays was born on August 1, 1894 or 1895 in a rural area outside Ninety-Six, South Carolina. -
plessy v. ferguson
This 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. It stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African-American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car, breaking a Louisiana law. -
richard russell
Richard B. Russell Jr.
Richard B. Russell Jr. became one of the youngest members of the Georgia House of Representatives upon his election in 1920. By the time of this 1928 photograph, he was serving as Speaker of the House. Russell would later take office in 1931 as Georgia's youngest governor, and he entered national politics as a U.S. senator in 1933.
Richard B. Russell Jr.
served in public office for fifty years as a state legislator, governor of Georgia, and U.S. senator. Although Russell -
Sibley Commision
In 1906 governor forced to decide between closing public schools or complying with a federal or to desegregate them. It was a commonly known as the sibley commision. -
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1906 olympic games
In 1906 the games were held in athens georgia. It was here, the united states had its first U.S. team and official uniforms. The olympic games happens every four years. -
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1906 atlanta riot
During the Atlanta race riot that occurred September 22-24, 1906, white mobs killed dozens of blacks, wounded scores of others, and inflicted considerable property damage. Local newspaper reports of alleged assaults by black males on white females were the catalyst for the riot, but a number of underlying causes lay behind the outbreak of mob violence. -
ivan allen jr
Ivan Allen Jr. served as mayor of Atlanta from 1962 to 1970.
Ivan Allen Jr. served as mayor of Atlanta from 1962 to 1970. He is credited with leading the city through an era of significant physical and economic growth and with maintaining calm during the civil rights movement. In 1965 he persuaded the Braves to move to Atlanta from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Ivan Allen Jr., 1965
He is credited with leading the city through an era of significant physical and economic growth and with maintaining calm -
leo frank case
The Leo Frank case is one of the most notorious and highly publicized cases in the legal annals of Georgia. A Jewish man in Atlanta was placed on trial and convicted of raping and murdering a thirteen-year-old girl who worked for the National Pencil Company, which he managed. -
william b hartsfield
William B. Hartsfield was a man of humble origins who became one of the greatest mayors of Atlanta.
William B. Hartsfield served as mayor of Atlanta for six terms (1937-41, 1942-61), longer than any other person in the city's history. He is credited with developing Atlanta into an aviation powerhouse and with building its image as "A City Too Busy to Hate."
William B. Hartsfield
He served as mayor for six terms (1937-41, 1942-61), longer than any other person in the city's history. -
herman talmage
Herman Talmadge, son of Eugene Talmadge, served as governor of Georgia
Herman Talmadge, son of Georgia governor Eugene Talmadge, took the governor's office briefly in 1947, and again after a special election in 1948.
Herman Talmadge
for a brief time in early 1947 and again from 1948 to 1954. In 1956 Talmadge was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served until his defeat in 1980. Talmadge, a Democrat, was governor at a time of political transition in the state, and he served in the Senate duri -
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Lester Maddox
In 1947 Maddox opened his most enduring and successful enterpiece the pickrick cafeteria. In 1957 Maddox decided to put his words into action and challeneged William B. Hartsfield in the Atlanta mayoral race. -
county unit system
The county unit system was established in 1917 when the Georgia legislature, overwhelmingly dominated by the Democratic Party, passed the Neill Primary Act.This act formalized what had operated as an informal system, instituted in Georgia in 1898, of allotting votes by county in party primary elections. -
world war 1
The world’s first global conflict, the “Great War” pitted the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire against the Allied forces of Great Britain, the United States, France, Russia, Italy and Japan. -
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martin luther king jr.
Martin luther king jr. was a baptist minister and social activist who played a role in the american civil rights movement from the mid 1950's until his assassination in 1968. -
great depression
The Great Depression (1929-39) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
Andrew Young
Andrew Young is mostly responsible for Atlants reputation as an international city. He was a political and bussiness man. He was born March 12, 1932 in Louisiana. He graduated from Howard University in Washington D.C. in 1951 with a bachelar of science degree in biology. -
agricultural adjustment act
Farmers in America did well out of the New Deal. The farmers of America did not prosper in the so-called Roaring Twenties. They were simply too successful in that they produced far too much for the American market. With western Europe as a market effectively closed to them as a result of a tariff war, the farmers could only sell in America. -
holocaust
The word “Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Since 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the mass murder of some 6 million European Jews (as well as members of some other persecuted groups, such as Gypsies and homosexuals) by the German Nazi regime during the Second World War. -
civilian conservation corps
Formed in March 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps, CCC, was one of the first New Deal programs. It was a public works project intended to promote environmental conservation and to build good citizens through vigorous, disciplined outdoor labor. -
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Manyard Jackson elected mayor
In 1937 Manyard Jackson was elected mayor. He was the first african american to serve as mayor of a major southern city. He served 8 years then returned for a third term. -
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world war 2
Coming just two decades after the last great global conflict, the Second World War was the most widespread and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries and resulting in more than 50 million military and civilian deaths (with some estimates as high as 85 million dead). -
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Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter
Hamilton Holmes is best known for desegregating georgias university. -
pearl harbor
Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. -
1946 governors race
Georgia's "three governors controversy" of 1946-47, which began with the death of Governor-elect Eugene Talmadge. the General Assembly elected Herman Talmadge as governor.In the summer of 1946 Eugene Talmadge won the Democratic primary for governor for the fourth time. -
brown vs. board of education
Brown v. Board of Education ended legal segregation in public schools.When the people agreed to be plaintiffs in the case, they never knew they would change history.They were teachers, secretaries, welders, ministers and students who simply wanted to be treated equally. -
student nonviolent coorinating committee
The student nonviolent coordinating committee formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement. It became one of the movements more radical branches. -
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The Albany Movement
The Albany movement began in fall 1961 and ended summer 1962. It was the first mass movement in the modern civil rights era to have its goal desegregation of the entire community. It had resulted to more than 1000 african americans put in jail. -
March on Washington
On August 28 1963 more than 200,000 americans gathered in washington D.C. for a political rally known as the march on washington for jobs and freedom. It was organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups. -
Civil Rights act
The civil rights act ended segargation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race color religion sex or national orgin. It was first proposed by president John F. Kennedy. The southern strongly opposed of this act. -
carl vinson
Carl Vinson, recognized as "the father of the two-ocean navy," served twenty-five consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Carl Vinson, recognized as "the father of the two-ocean navy," served twenty-five consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Carl Vinson
When he retired in January 1965, he had served in the U.S. Congress longer than anyone in history. -
atlanta falcons
The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are a member of the South Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). -
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Jimmy Carter in Georgia
Jimmy Carter the only Georgian elected president held office from 1977-1981. He was in the U.S. Navy two senate terms in the georgia general assembly and one term as the governor of georgia. He founded the carter center which is a nonpartisan public policy center in Atlanta. -
atlanta braves
After spending seventy-seven years in Boston, Massachusetts, and thirteen in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Braves moved to Atlanta to begin the 1966 major league baseball season. The move made the Atlanta Braves the first major league professional sports team to call the Deep South its home. -
atlanta hawks
The
Atlanta Hawks player Al Harrington (left) attempts a rebound during a game with the Phoenix Suns at Philips Arena in 2006. The Hawks franchise moved to Atlanta from St. Louis, Missouri, in 1968 and has played home games at Philips Arena since 1999.
Atlanta Hawks
Hawks, a National Basketball Association (NBA) franchise and part of the Eastern Conference's Southeast Division, have called Atlanta home since 1968. Playing at Philips Arena in the heart of downtown Atlanta, the Hawks join the Bra -
social security
In the United States, Social Security is primarily the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) federal program.[1] The original Social Security Act (1935)[2] and the current version of the Act, as amended,[3] encompass several social welfare and social insurance programs. -
1956 state flag
On May 8, 2003 governor sony perdue signed a legislation creating a new state flag for georgia. The new banner became effective immedietl giving georgia its third state flag in only 27 months
