Georgia History Timeline Project

  • Jan 15, 1000

    paleo

    The paleo people lived around 13000 years ago.
  • Jan 15, 1000

    archaic

    Ate meideum sized food.
  • Jan 15, 1000

    woodland

    first to biuld the bow and arrow. also first to build mounds for dead.
  • Jan 15, 1100

    mississippian

    first to come in contact with europeans.
  • Jan 15, 1500

    hernodo de soto

    He was the leader of an expodition.
  • james wright

    was a governerfor Geriogia.
  • Henry Ellis

    a royal govaner for Georgia.
  • Georgia founded

    Gerogia was founded bya man named James Oglethorpe.
  • charter of 1732

    it was the charter that founded georgia.
  • Highlandscots arrive

    The Highland scots were recruited to protect the rest of the colony.
  • Salzburgers arrive

    The salzburgers arrived because they got kicked out of salzburg.
  • Eli Whintney and the Cotton Gin

    The cotton gin could clean cotton a whole lot faster than workers.
  • Yazoo land fraud.

    It is also known as Mississippi.
  • American Revoluition

    The A merican Revolution was between the patriots and loyalist.
  • university of georgia founded

    First university that was founded.
  • John Reynoldes

    Was an oficer for the royal navy.
  • Capital moved to Louisville

    Louisville was the third capital in Georgia.
  • Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise is when congress gave a effert to defuse rivalres in Missouri.
  • Dahlonega gold rush

    The second gold rush in the United States.
  • Worcester v. Georgia

    He refused to leave and to get a licences of residentce.
  • Henry McNeal Turrner

    He was a african american who was never a slave and became a preacher and a lawer.
  • trail of tears

    The trail of tears happend when Andrew Jakson forced the Chrokee off thier land and to move to presnt day Oklahoma.
  • Georigia platform

    As statement executed in Georiga.
  • compromise of 1850

    When five separate bills were passed by congress.
  • Kansas-Nebraka act

    It was when the goverment let the people in that terotory decied if they wanted to have slavery.
  • tom watson and the pubisist

    president of pubisis
  • brooker t. washinton

    a eader of a african american community.
  • Dred scott case

    A slave fought in court for his freedom
  • Election of 1860

    It was the election for president during the Civil war
  • union blockade of Georgia

    Abraham lincon proclamed a blockade to block Georgias coast.
  • battle of Anteinam

    It was a major battle in the civil war.
  • Emancipation Proclimation

    Abraham lincon issued the emancipation proclamatin durring the civil war.
  • Battle of Gettysberg

    The batle was foght in Gettysberg Pensivaia.
  • Battle of chichama

    It was a battle fought in Teenesee.
  • Andersonville prision camp

    In the camp 13000 Unoion soliders died.
  • Thirteenth Amendment

    It abolished slavery.And involintary work.
  • shermans march to sea

    Sherman marched all the way from Alanta to Shavannah
  • shermans Alanta camipian

    The north tryed to cut of the confederates supplys.
  • freedmans 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 (1861-65)
  • web dubis

    civi rights activices.
  • john hope

    african american teacher.
  • fourteenth admendment

    It adreeeds citisens rights.
  • Ku Klux Klan formed

    The KKK hated African Americans and white republicans.
  • fifthteenth admendment

    Gave formor slaves the right to vote.
  • internationa cotton exposer

    Was hed in aanta GA.
  • carl vinson

    Vinson was born in Fulton County, Georgia, attended Georgia Military College, and graduated with a law degree from Mercer University in 1902. He was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1908. After losing a third term following redistricting, he was appointed judge of the Baldwin County court, but following the sudden death of Senator Augustus Bacon, Representative Thomas W. Hardwick of Georgia's 10th congressional district was nominated to fill Bacon's Senate seat and Vinson annou
  • Benjamin Mays

    Benjamin Elijah Mays (August 1, 1894 – March 28, 1984) was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights, and the progression of African American rights in America. He was active working with world leaders, such as John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and John D. Rockefeller, in improving the social standing of minorities in politics, education, and business.
  • pessy v. ferguson

    it is a and mark over rasi segrgation.
  • richerd russe

    Richard Brevard Russell, Jr. (November 2, 1897 – January 21, 1971) was an American politician from Georgia. A member of the Democratic Party, he briefly served as speaker of the Georgia house, and as Governor of Georgia (1931–33) before serving in the United States Senate for almost 40 years, from 1933 until his death from emphysema in Washington, D.C. in 1971. As a Senator, he was a candidate for President of the United States in the 1948 Democratic National Convention, and the 1952 Democratic
  • 1906 aanta riot

    It was a rasia mascer for negroes
  • eo frank case

    He was a man that raped and murderd a 13 year od gir.
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    ww1

    World War I (WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, or the Great War, was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history.[5][6] Over 9 million combatants and 7 million civilians died as a result of the war (including the victims of a number of genocides), a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents' technological
  • Lester Maddox

    Was the 75th governer of georgia.
  • County unit sysyem

    was a voteing sysetstem used by the u.s.a
  • Jimmy Carter in Gerorgia

    Jimmy Carter, the only Georgian elected president of the United States, held the office for one term, 1977-81. His previous public service included a stint in the U.S. Navy.
  • eugene tamadge

    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. He was elected to a fourth term as the state's chief executive in 1946 but died before taking office.
  • aonzo hernodon

    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 an
  • Martian luther king jr.

    Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs.
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    great deprression

    The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place during the 1930s. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations; however, in most countries it started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s.[1] It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century.[2] In the 21st century, the Great Depression is commonly used as an example of how far the world's economy can decline.[3]
  • Andrew young

    Severed as a congress man from Georgia and was a pastor.
  • civiican 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. Originally for young men ages 18–23, it was eventually expanded to young men ages 17–28.
  • holocaust

    The Holocaust (from the Greek ὁλόκαυστος holókaustos: hólos, "whole" and kaustós, "burnt"),[2] also known as the Shoah (Hebrew: השואה, HaShoah, "the catastrophe"), was a genocide in which approximately six million Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime and its collaborators.[3] Some historians use a definition of the Holocaust that includes the additional five million non-Jewish victims of Nazi mass murders, bringing the total to approximately eleven million. Killings took place througho
  • socia security

    An act to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling the several States to make more adequate provision for aged persons, blind persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of their unemployment compensation laws; to establish a Social Security Board; to raise revenue; and for other purposes.
  • rura eectrifcation

    The Rural Electrification Act of 1936, enacted on May 20, 1936, provided federal loans for the installation of electrical distribution systems to serve isolated rural areas of the United States.
  • william b. Hartsfeild

    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 &quotA 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. Hartsfie
  • agricuture ajustment 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. The money for these subsidies was generated through an exclusive tax on companies which processed farm products
  • Maynard Jackson elected mayor

    Elected mayor of Atlanta in 1973, Maynard Jackson was the first African American to serve as mayor of a major southern city
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    ww2

    World War II (WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, though related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. In a state of "total war", the major participants threw their enti
  • hamilton holmes and charlayne hunter

    Hamilton E. Holmes. Hamilton E. Holmes (8 July 1941 – 26 October 1995) was an American orthopedic physician. He and Charlayne Hunter-Gault were the first two African-American students admitted to the University of Georgia.
  • pear harbor

    The attack on Pearl Harbor, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor,[9] the Hawaii Operation or Operation AI by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters,[10][11] and Operation Z during planning,[12] was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II.
  • Alanta Hawks

    The Atlanta Hawks are a professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Hawks compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member team of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The Hawks play their home games at Philips Arena. The team's origins can be traced to the establishment of the Tri-Cities Blackhawks in 1946, a member of the National Basketball League and owned by Ben Kerner. In 1949, they joined the National Basketball Association (NBA) as part of
  • 1946 governor race

    Three Governors Controversy November 17, 1948 - Atlanta

    It was one of the most bizarre political episodes in American history. For a brief period of time in 1947, Georgia had three governors.
  • hearman talmadge

    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
  • brown vs board of education

    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), 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. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation, insofar as it applied to public education. Handed down on May 17, 1954, the Warren Court's unanimous (9–0) decision stated that "separate educational facil
  • 1956 state flag

    May 8, 2003, Governor Sonny Perdue signed legislation creating a new state flag for Georgia.
  • Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

    To give younger african americans a voice.
  • Sibley commission

    It was meant to intergarte schools.
  • 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)
  • 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
  • THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON

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    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. Organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country.
  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
  • alanta braves

    The "Braves" name, which was first used in 1912, originates from a term for an Indian warrior. They are nicknamed "the Bravos", and often referred to as "America's Team" in reference to the team's games being broadcast on the nationally available TBS from the 1970s until 2007, giving the team a nationwide fan base.The "Braves" name, which was first used in 1912, originates from a term for an Indian warrior. They are nicknamed "the Bravos", and often referred to as "America's Team" in reference
  • alanta falcons

    The Falcons joined the NFL in 1965[3] as an expansion team, after the NFL offered then-owner Rankin Smith a franchise to keep him from joining the rival American Football League (AFL). The AFL instead granted a franchise to Miami, Florida (the Miami Dolphins). The Falcons are tied with the Dolphins (who also began play in 1966) for being the oldest NFL franchise in the Deep South, and are the oldest NFC team in that region.
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    1996 Olimpic games

    Hosted in Alanta was a multi sport event with 190 nations commpeting.