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Jan 1, 1000
Woodland
The Woodland time period dated from around 1000 B.C. to A.D. 900. One of the trends that diminished was mound construction. The bow and arrow also may have made warfare more deadly. The term 'Woodland Period' was introduced in the 1930s. -
Jan 1, 1000
Paleo
Paleoindians belong to the oldest known cultural period in North America. Spears tipped with stone points are the main hunting tool. Shelters are temporary, perhaps tents covered with hides or lean-tos made of brush. Archaeologists call these first people Paleoindians. -
Jan 1, 1000
Archaic
The Archaic period followed the Lithic stage and was superseded by the Formative stage. Early Archaic people were hunters. Archaic sites generally consist of tools including well-made. The late Archaic period lasted from about 5,000 to 3,000 years ago. -
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Mississippian
They are horticulturists. They spent most of there life's outdoors. Their houses were mainly for shelter. They were organized as chiefdoms. -
Mar 3, 1540
Hernando de Soto
He was a spanish explorer. He discovered the mississipi river. He enslaved natives. In 1536 de soto returned to spain a wealthy man. -
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Henry Ellis
Ellis was born in Mogahan Ireland. He was a highly intellegent man. Ellis conducted experiments for members of England's Royal Society. He replaced John Reynolds as Georgia's royal Governor. -
Charter of 1732
The charter contained contradictions. The Indians departed on October 31, 1734. A group of Jews landed in Georgia without permission in 1733. But the Jews were allowed to remain. -
Salzburgers Arrive
Salzburgers arrive in Rotterdam on November 22, 1733. General Oglethrope greeted the exiles in Savannah. The Salzburgers suceeded at farming. Specifically cattle breeding. -
Highland Scots Arrive
The Scots built a fort to replace Fort King George. They disembarked on the northern bank of the Altamaha River. The River had been banned in 1732. These men were recruited by Hames Oglethrope. -
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
He was a talented mechanic and inventor. Born in Massechusetts. Whitneys father was a farmer. -
Austin Dabney
Revolutionary war hero. He was a slave who fought aganist the British. No soilder was braver than Dabney. Austin was a loyal patriot. -
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American Revolution
The first battles were fought in Lexington. July 4, 1776 United States declared independence from Great Britain. The Revolutionary war was ruled by King George the 3rd at that time. The colonists were split. -
Elijah Clarke/Kettle Cr.
He was the son of John Clarke. Elijah served in the state assembly. He also acted as a commissioner. He married Hannah Harrington around 1763. -
University of Georgia founded
Georgia became the first state to charter a state supported university. The university was acually established in 1801. The university graduated its first class in 1804. In 1931 the General Assembly of Georgia placed all state supported institutions of higher education. -
Constitutional Convention
This convention was held in Pennsylvania. It was known as the hundred day debate. They elected George Washington to preside over the convention. This started only 4 years after the end of the revolution. -
Georgia Founded
James Oglethorp founded Georgia. Slaves were sent here to work. Settlers came in 1733. Became a royal colony in 1752. -
Georgia Ratifies Constitution
Georgia was the 4th state to do so. Only 8 of the 30 elected. On Janurary 2nd ratification was approved. December 31st addopted constitution.December 25th they appointed the convending. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
One of the most signifigant events. Georgia politicians used the "Yazoo" label to bludgeon opponents. Yazoo helped to lead to Cherokee "Trial of Tears". -
Capital moved to Louisville
Served as Georgia's third capital from 1796 until 1807. In 1796 Georgia legislature gathered in Louisville. May 1795, delegates convended there for a state constitutional convention. Lale 1790s Louisville had aquired a cosmopolitian atmosphere. -
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. -
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John Reynolds
He had 9 brothers and sisters. Born in Pennsylvania. He served 1841 to 1863. During the Mexican-American war, Reynolds was rewarded 2 promotions. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
Gold rush towns sprang up quickly in north Georgia. Particularly near the center of the Gold region. Over in Lumpkin County. -
Worcester v. Georgia
Georgia conducted a campain to get rid of Cherokees. Who held a territory within the borders of Georgia. July 7th again arrested Worchester. -
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Trail of Tears
In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the Trail of Tears. -
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. -
Georgia Platform
The Georgia Platform was a statement executed by a Georgia Convention in Milledgeville, Georgia on December 10, 1850 in response to the Compromise of 1850. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois. -
Tom Watson and the Populists
Watson was a newspaper writer and editor. He was born on a plantation in Columbia County. His family owned 45 slaves. They also owned more than 1,000 acers of land. -
Dred Scott Case
In March 1857, in one of the most controversial events preceding the American Civil War. The U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford. -
Election of 1860
The United States presidential election of 1860 was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860, and served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War. -
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Union Blockade of Georgia
When The union Blockade happened from 1861-1865 during the American Civil War. Where The Union Blockade happened along the coast of confederate Georgia. -
Battle of Antietam
The Army of the Potomac, under the command of George McClellan, mounted a series of powerful assaults against Robert E. Lee’s forces near Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862. -
Emancipaption Proclamation
January 1st, 1863 is the date most Americans identify as the day the Emancipation Proclamation officially took effect. -
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. -
Battle of Chickamauga
On September 19, 1863 Braxton Bragg’s Army of Tennessee defeated a Union force commanded by General William Rosecrans in the Battle of Chickamauga. -
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Andersonville Prison Camp
During the beginning of 1864, the men in command of the Confederacy saw a need for another prison to house their prisoners of war. -
Thirteen Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
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Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
Sherman's Atlanta campaign began in early May 1864, and in the first few months his troops engaged in several fierce battles. -
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Sherman's March to the Sea
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. -
Freedman's Bureau
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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. -
Ku Klux Klan Formed
Six Confederate veterans from Pulaski, Tennessee created the original Ku Klux Klan on December 24, 1865, during the Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War. -
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. -
Fifteenth Amendment
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States. -
International Cotton Exposition
it was a world fair held in Atlanta Georgia. Its location was along the Western and Atlantic railroad tracks. This was its first exposition and it was in Oglethorpe Park. The city had fewer than 40,000 residents. -
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William B. Hartsfield
William B. Hartsfield was a man of humble origins who became one of the greatest mayors of Atlanta. The youngest of three sons, William Berry Hartsfield was born March 1, 1890, to Charles Green Hartsfield and Victoria Dagnall Hartsfield in Atlanta. In 1921 he left the firm and opened his own law office. -
1906 Atlanta Riot
It was a mass civil disturbance in Atlanta. White mobs killed dozens of blacks. During the reconstruction blacks were given the right to vote. The press for an end to violence, because it was damaging Atlanta's image. -
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Ivan Allen Jr.
He died at age 92. He was an American businessman. Convinced that the South could never thrive economically under segregation. Served two terms as the 52nd Mayor of Atlanta. -
Henry McNeal Turner
Turner was born in 1834 in Newberry Courthouse, South Carolina, to Sarah Greer and Hardy Turner. Turner was never a slave. His paternal grandmother was a white plantation owner. -
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James Wright
He was referred as the Americans finest poets. James was born in Ohio. Wright joined the army and was stationed in Japan during the American occupiation. The Green Wall on of Wrights poets was an award winner. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist, who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation. -
Leo Frank Case
He was a Jewish man who raped and killed a 13 year old girl. The girl worked for a National Pencil Company. Frank's attorneys were unable to break Colony's testimony. -
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.
