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Paleo
Paleo indians traveled in packs ranging from 20 to 50 people. They ate insects, fruits, seeds, and also roots. They counted on these animal mastodans, caribou, bison, and mammoth to find there places to camp. They used a tool called spears and also another tools that were made of stone. -
Jan 1, 1000
Archaic
The Archaic Period traveled and lived in small groups of 25-50 people. They built hearth for fire to cook their food and to keep theirselves warm. They nade their tools out of stone. The people ate birds,nuts,shellfish,berries,fish,seeds,turtles, and roots. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland
The Woodland Period lived in circular, square, and rectangular houses. They also lived in villages. It is known that they ate maygrass , goosefoot, knotweed, sunflowers, nut, corn, and wild food. -
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Mississippian
In the Mississipian time period, the people ate corn,deer,beans, goosefoot,squash, turkey, fish, sunflower, shellfish, turtles, and also they had more but didnt list them. -
Sep 15, 1540
Hernado de Soto
Hernado de Soto was the first european to explore Georgia.He made 2 historical makers from his time in Georgia. One along river walk in Augusta. The other at the tourism -
Charter Of 1732
This is when King George signed a charter creating a governing border. Also that year 12 trustees attended the 1st meeting. About a month or two later 7 of the trustees told Oglethrope and the first settlers farewell that they were leave and crossed the "Anne". -
Salzburgers Arrive
There was 300 Salzburgers who accepted the invitation and came to Georgia. They traveled 25 miles upriver and founded a town Ebenezer. -
Highland Scots Arrive
There were 177 Highland Scots that arrived for James Oglethrope orders. This including women and children. They made plans to Brahmins settling at the mouth of Altamaha. -
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John Reynolds
John Reynolds was a British Royal Navy. He was also the first royal governor in Georgia. -
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Henry Ellis
Henry Ellis was the second royal governor.he also created friendship with the "head of the creek nation". Ellis lefted in November of 1760 when he became I'll cause of poor health. -
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James Wright
James Wright was the third&last royal governor. He enforced the "Stamp Act of 1765". He was powerless to stop the Revolutionary movement. He was also arrested by Georgia Rebels in 1766. -
Constitution Convection
Georgia was among firsts states to create a constitution. This was also known as "Constitution of 1777". -
Elijah Clarke/Kettle Cr.
Lieutenant colonel of militia,Clarke led in the rebel victory at Kettle Creek. He joined the rebels and received a wound by the Cherokee 1776. -
University of Georgia Founded
UGA was the first university in America to be created by a state government. Its the oldest, largest,& most comprehensive education institutional in Georgia. It was chartered by the Georgia General Assembly in 1785. 1996 and 2003 UGA had more Rhodes recipients than ANY state university in America during that time period. -
Austin Dabney
A slave who became private in Georgia. Militia and fought against the British in the revolution war. He was the ONLY African American granted land for his reginition of his bravery. -
Georgia Founded
A English General named James Edward Oglethrope founded Georgia on 1/2/1788. Georgia is named after the honored King George the second -
Georgia Ratifies Constitution
Georgia selected 6 people to go to Philadelphia summer of 1787. 4 of those people went and 2 of those people signed it. Those people were Abraham Baldwin and William Few. They signed the final documennt. -
Eli Whitney & The Cotton Gin
He only spent a few months here in Georgia. But while he invented the cotton gin. This invention expedited the extraction of seeds from upland cotton, making the crop profitableall over the south. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
U.S. history, scheme by which Georgia legislators were brides to sell most of the land now making up the state of Mississippi. -
Capital Moved To Louisville
This was the third capital in Georgia. Its called Louisville for Louis XVI of France for the appreciation for the French assistance during the Revolutionary War. At the time Louisville was where majority of the people live so that's how it became the capital. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
No one is certain whio made the first discovery. No documented evidence was found until 8/1/1829. -
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 distinct sovereign 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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Trail of Tears
To sum it all up! It was about Cherokee Removal. These 2 guys signed the Treaty of New Echota without the authority of Principal Chief Ross or the Cherokee government. The treaty required the Cherokee Nation to exchange its national lands for a parcel in the "Indian Territory" and to relocate there within two years. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War -
Georgia Platform
The Georgia Platform was a statement executed by a Georgia Convention in Milledgeville, Georgia in response to the Compromise of 1850. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephn Douglas introduced the bill. The act states openinng new lands for settlements; Allowing white males to determine popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery. -
Dred Scott Case
Scott argued that his time spent in these locations entitled him to emancipation. In his decision, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, a staunch supporter of slavery, disagreed: The court found that no black, free or slave, could claim U.S. citizenship, and therefore blacks were unable to petition the court for their freedom. The Dred Scott decision incensed abolitionists and heightened North-South tensions, which would erupt in war just three years later. -
Election of 1860
The United States presidential election of 1860 was the 19th quadrennial presidential election.The election served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War. -
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Union Blockade of Georgia
In Georgia, Union strategy centered on Savannah, the state's most significant port city. Beyond Savannah, Union forces generally focused on securing bases of operation on outlying coastal islands to counter Confederate privateers. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam /ænˈtiːtəm/, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South, fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland. -
Emancipation Proclamation
After the U.S. victory at Antietam in September 1862, Lincoln announced that on January 1, all slaves in rebellious states would be freed. -
Freeman's Bureau
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. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg, battle is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. A great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville -
Battle of Chickamauga
The Battle of Chickamauga marked the end of a Union offensive in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia called the Chickamauga Campaign. -
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Andersonville Prison Camp
A Confederate prison was established in Macon County, during the civil war.To provide relief for the large number of Union prisoners concentrated in and around Richmond, Virginia. -
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Sherman Atlanta Campaign
The "Atlanta campaign" is the name given by historians to the military operations that took place in north Georgia during the Civil War. most Confederate Southerners had probably given up hopes of winning the war by conquering Union armies. The Confederacy had a real chance, though, of winning the war simply by not being beaten. -
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Sherman March To The Sea
The March to the Sea, the most destructive campaign against a civilian population during the Civil War. -
Thirteenth Amendment
On this day in 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, officially ending the institution of slavery, is ratified. “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.” With these words, the single greatest change wrought by the Civil War was officially noted in theConstitution. -
Ku Klux Klan Formed
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK), or simply "the Klan", is the name of three distinct past and present movements in the United States that have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically expressed through terrorism aimed at groups or individuals whom they opposed. -
Henry McNeal Turner
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Henry McNeal Turner (February 1, 1834 – May 8, 1915) was a minister, politician, and the 12th elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; he was a pioneer in Georgia in organizing new congregations of the independent black denomination after the American Civil War. -
14th Amendment
On this day in 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, officially ending the institution of slavery, is ratified. “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.” With these words, the single greatest change wrought by the Civil War was officially noted in theConstitution. -
15th 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.” -
International Cotton Exposition
Atlanta held its first exposition, named the International Cotton Exposition, in Oglethorpe Park in 1881.The city then had fewer than 40,000 residents, and the primary sense in which the first exposition was "international" was the display of cotton plants from around the world. -
Benjamin Mays
Perhaps best known as the longtime president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Benjamin Mays was a distinguished African American minister, educator, scholar, and social activist. Mays also filled leadership roles in several significant national and international organizations, among them the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the International Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), the World Council of Churches, the United Negro College Fund, the National Bapt -
Plessy v. Ferguson
It was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal". -
Tom Watson And The Populists
Thomas Edward "Tom" Watson was an American politician, attorney, newspaper editor and writer from Georgia. Watson temporarily withdrew from politics at this point and resumed his law practice in Thomson. Though he would reemerge to run for president as a Populist in 1904 and 1908, neither he nor the much-diminished party ever posed a serious threat to the Democrats or Republicans. Within Georgia, however, Watson continued to exert considerable political influence. In 1906 he helped Hoke Smith w -
1906 Atlanta Riot
The Atlanta race riot of 1906 was a mass civil disturbance in Atlanta, Georgia (USA). It was characterized at the time by Le Petit Journal and other media outlets as a "racial massacre of negroes". -
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. At the time of his death in 1927, he was also Atlanta's wealthiest black citizen, owning more property than any other African American. Admired and respected by many, he was noted for his involvement in and support of local institutions and charities devoted to advancing African American business. -
The 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 -
County Unit System
The County Unit System was a voting system used by the U.S. state of Georgia to determine a victor in statewide primary elections from 1917 until 1962. -
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World War l
The state was home to more training camps than any other state and, by the war's end, it had contributed more than 100,000 men and women to the war effort. Georgia also suffered from the effects of the influenza pandemic, a tragic maritime disaster, local political fights, and wartime homefront restrictions. -
John and Lugenia Hope
Lugenia Burns Hope was an early-twentieth-century social activist, reformer, and community organizer.She worked for the improvement of black communities through traditional social work, community health campaigns, and political pressure for better education and infrastructure. John Hope was a very important African American educator and race leader of the early twentieth century. -
Great Depression
The root of Georgia's rural depression in the 1920s was the decades-long dependence on cash-crop agriculture.Cash-crop production placed enormous pressure on farmers to plant every available acre of land with cotton, which eventually depleted the soil. Georgia's land, economy, and farmers were already wearing out when the Great Depression began. -
web dubois
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was an African American educator, historian, sociologist, and social activist who poignantly addressed the issues of racial discrimination, black social problems,and world peace during the first half of the twentieth century. -
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Holocaust
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Eugene Talmadge
Eugene Talmadge was a Democratic politician who served two terms as the 67th Governor of Georgia from 1933 to 1937, and a third term from 1941 to 1943. Elected to a fourth term in November 1946, he died before his inauguration. -
Agricultral Adjustment Act
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a United States federal law of the New Deal era which reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock. Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus and therefore effectively raise the value of crops -
Rural Electrification
The Rural Electrification Act (REA) is a law that was passed by the U.S. Congress. It was a congressional endorsement of the Rural Electrification Administration, which U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt created by executive order in May 1935 as part of his New Deal, during the Great Depression. -
Social Security
The Social Security Act (SSA) was signed into law by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 14, 1935. The law was one of Roosevelt's major New Deal initiatives during the Great Depression. Best known today for providing retirement benefits to most workers, the Social Security Act of 1935 also provided grants for unemployment insurance, dependent children, and state public health initiatives. -
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William B. Hartsfield
.When Hartsfield took office in January 1937, Atlanta was in poor financial condition. To boost the city out of this crisis, he called on business leaders.The new system would not let the city budget exceed more than 99 percent of the receipts of the previous year. Because the city council did not allocate more than 95 percent of those receipts, the city had a cash carryover each year. By the close of 1938, the city gradually began to recover from effects of the depression. -
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal. -
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World War ll
Some 320,000 Georgians served in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II, and countless others found employment in burgeoning wartime industries. Their experiences were pivotal in determining the state's future development, and the war itself marked a watershed in Georgia's history. Because it occurred when important shifts in the state's politics, race relations, and economy were already under way, the war accelerated Georgia's modernization, lifting it out of the Great Depression. -
Pearl Harbor
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 more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. -
Richard Russell
Richard B. Russell Jr. served in public office for fifty years as a state legislator, governor of Georgia, and U.S. senator. He helped to secure or maintain fifteen military installations; more than twenty-five research facilities, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Russell Agricultural Research Center; and federal funding for development and construction. Serving in the U.S. Senate from 1933 until his death, Russell was one of that body's most respected members. -
1946 Governor's Race Georgia
Georgia's "three governors controversy" of 1946-47, which began with the death of governor-elect Eugene Talmadge, was one of the more bizarre political spectacles in the annals of American politics. In the wake of Talmadge's death, his supporters proposed a plan that allowed the Georgia legislature to elect a governor in January 1947. When the General Assembly elected Talmadge's son Herman Talmadge as governor, the newly elected lieutenant governor, Melvin Thompson, claimed the office of governo -
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
1956 State Flag
A strong impetus for change, however, was the 1954 and 1955 Brown v. Board of Education decisions, which were bitterly denounced by most Georgia political leaders. The entire 1956 legislative session was devoted to Governor Marvin Griffin's platform of "massive resistance" to federally imposed integration of public schools. In this charged atmosphere, legislation to put the Confederate battle flag on Georgia's state flag sailed through the General Assembly. -
Sibley Commission
1960 Governor Ernest Vandiver Jr., forced to decide between closing public schools or complying with a federal order to desegregate them, tapped state representative George Busbee to introduce legislation creating the General Assembly Committee on Schools. Commonly known as the Sibley Commission, the committee was charged with gathering state residents' sentiments regarding desegregation and reporting back to the governor. -
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter-Gault were the first two African-American students admitted to the University of Georgia. -
The Albany Movement
The Albany Movement was a desegregation coalition formed in Albany, Georgia, on November 17, 1961, by local activists, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC (pronounced "snick"), was one of the key organizations in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s. SNCC sought to coordinate youth-led nonviolent, direct-action campaigns against segregation and other forms of racism -
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Ivan Allen, Jr.
Ivan Allen, Jr., was an American businessman who served two terms as the 52nd Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, during the turbulent civil rights era of the 1960s. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. Famous for his speech "I Have A Dream". -
March on Washington
Martin Luther King Jr. led the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August 1963. King's "I Have a Dream" speech was the most memorable event of the day and confirmed him as black America's most prominent spokesperson. -
Civil Rights Act
The civil rights movement in the American South was one of the most significant and successful social movements in the modern world. Black Georgians formed part of this southern movement for full civil rights and the wider national struggle for racial equality. -
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. He had served in the U.S. Congress longer than anyone in history.He also set the record for service as chair of a standing committee. -
Atlanta Falcons
In 1965 the Atlanta Falcons became the first professional football team in the city of Atlanta and the fifteenth National Football League (NFL) franchise in existence. -
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. First game sold out! they got already 50000 fans. -
Atlanta Hawks
In 1968 new owners Thomas Cousins, a Georgia real estate developer, and former Georgia governor Carl Sanders moved the Hawks to Atlanta. The team shared Alexander Memorial Hall with the Georgia Tech basketball team. Richie Guerin, a guard acquired from the Knicks in 1963, was made head coach in 1967 after retiring from play. The Atlanta Hawks posted a 48-34 record, and in 1969-70 the Hawks won the Western Division but quickly fell to the Lakers in four straight games. -
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Lester Maddox
, Maddox proved reasonably progressive on many racial matters. As governor he backed significant prison reform, an issue popular with many of the state's African Americans. He appointed more African Americans to government positions than all previous Georgia governors combined, including the first black officer in the Georgia State Patrol and the first black official to the state Board of Corrections. Though he never finished high school, Maddox greatly increased funding for the University Syste -
Herman Talmadge
Herman Talmadge, served as governor of Georgia for a brief time in early 1947 and again from 1948 to 1954. 1956 elected to the U.S. Senate served unti he was defeated in 1980! Talmadge, a Democrat, was governor at a time of political transition in the state, and he served in the Senate during a time of great political change in the nation as well. As a member of the southern bloc of the Senate, Talmadge was a staunch opponent of civil rights legislation, but he began to reach out to black voters -
Jimmy Carter in Georgia
Jimmy Carter became Georgia Governor in 1971. -
Maynard Jackson Elected Mayor
Maynard Jackson was the first African American to serve as mayor of a major southern city.Jackson served eight years and then returned for a third termin 1990, following the mayorship of Andrew Young. -
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Andrew Young
Young returned to Atlanta and in 1981 was elected the city's mayor. His election signaled the institutionalization of the revolution in black political power he had helped to create in Georgia. For the first time an African American mayor (Maynard Jackson) handed over the keys of a major city to another African American. Young won reelection in 1985 but was defeated in a 1990 primary bid to become the Democratic candidate for governor of Georgia -
Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community -
1996 Olympics Games
Atlanta hosted the Centennial Summer Olympic Games, an event that was without doubt the largest undertaking in the city's history.Preparations for the Olympics took more than six years after the awarding of the bid to Atlanta and had an estimated economic impact on the city of at least $5.14 billion.During the seventeen days of the Olympics, more than 2 million visitors came to Atlanta, and an estimated 3.5 billion people around the world watched part of the games on television.
