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Jan 1, 1000
Archaic Time Period
This time period was about 8,000 years ago.This was a time wear climate may have become drier and more hot than usual. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland Time Period
This period was roughly from 1000 B.C. to 1000 A.D. It considered of a lot of changes in a short amount of time, where stone, bone tools, leather crafting, textile manufacture, cultivation, andshelter construction where having continous development -
Jan 1, 1000
Palio Time Period
This period spans from 1500 B.C to 7000 B.C. This period marks the colonization of the new world by Homo Sapiens. This time period was over 12,000 years ago. -
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Mississippian Time Period
This period is a subperiod in the geological timespan. It is the earliest of the two Carboniferous period. Lasting roughly 358.9 to 329.2 million years ago. -
Sep 5, 1540
Hernando de Sato
Hernando de Sato entered Georgia in 1540. He and his army marched north from Florida into the southwestern part of Georgia in search of riches. -
Charter of 1732
The Charter of 1732 was the begining of the original Georiga colony. Catholics, African American, drug dealers, and lawyers were not allowed to move to the colony. -
Salzburgers Arrive
Salzburgers were German speaking protestants who were expelled from Salzburg. They were offered a place in the Georgia colony by paster Samuel Urlsperger and about 300 accepted the invitation. -
Highland Scots Arrive
Young men and their families from the Scotlish Highlands were recruited by oglethorpe to help protect the Georgia colony. The men were trained warriors and some of the world's finest soldiers. they established the settlement Darien. -
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John Reynolds
John Reynolds was the first royal governor. When he turned 18 he served in the British Navy. He made up a court system for the Georgia royal colony. When he did he made alot of people mad at him cause they could not have alchol. So the king replaced him with Henry Ellis. -
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Henry Ellis
Henry Ellis was the second royal govenor of georgia. He was a very popular govenor to alot of people in georgia. He was the govenor who brought the people together. He had to leave cause of heat illnessens. It ws hard for him to settle in the hot climate of Georgia. -
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James Wright
james Wright was the third and final royal govenor. The people of georgia liked as the govenor alot. He expanded Henry Ellis's polocies. He also tried moving the capital from savvanah but it did not go to well. He was the govenor for22 years. He governed through the American Revolution. -
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American Revolution
it was a very bloody war and it was a long time.Many people died in this war and caused to make a lot of people sad. Many people were very up set and deppressed. There were a lot of long term causes like the french and indian war and a lot of others. There were also a lot of short term causes like the intolerable act and the Declaration of Independence -
Constitution Covention
Took place to address the the problems of the governing of the Umited States -
Elijah Clarke/Kettle Cr.
Clark And Kettle Creek information)
The battle of Kettle Creek was a very bloody battle to alot of people.Elijah Clark Served in that battle back then in the year of 1779. Many soilders were wounded and many were also killed in that battle. The battle of Kettle Creek was a very bad and bloody battle mader of fact it was one of the bloddiest battles in america . -
Austin Dabney
He is the first black man to serve in the army. He served his country like he wanted to and he did it well. He never gave up without a fight and served very long then years after he died. He probably believed that he could do anything he wanted to do. -
University of Georgia Founded
The university of Georgia is a lucky college. The Government gave land so that university could build on.They didnt even have to pay for the land. A lot of people moved to georgia to attend UGA. -
Georgia Founded
Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe and 114 colonists. They hiked up the Savannah river on this day and founded the colony of Georgia. -
Capital Moved to Lousiville
Louisville is named in honor of King Louis xvl. It was so they could get help in the Revolution. It was also so they could stay centralized. The legislatives was the ones that wanted vthem to move up country. -
Georgia ratifies the constitution
Georgia ratified the Constitution so quick is so they could get alot stronger. When they ratified the constitution it helped them out to some people back then. The Constitution was a very strong Constitution. -
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney was the creator of the cotton Gin.He made it easier for farmers to get the seeds out of cotton. He also made it where slave population went up. It also made it were farmers make more money. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
The leader of the Yazooists, georgia's federalist U.S. Senator. James Quan, bvalueribed legislaters and state officials to sell 35 million acres to 4 and companies for 1,500,00 which was way below market -
Missouri Compromise
It was back when the united states had 22 states. In 1819 Missouri apllied for them to become a slave state. When the great deal debate ended Missouri was adopted by the congress in 1820. Mr. Nathan deal came up with the great deal debate. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
It was when the natives found gold on the cherokee land. So then they tried to get the indians to leave. The cherokee knew it was there this entire time. -
Worcester vs. Georgia
the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1832 that the Cherokee Indians -
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. -
Trail of tears
The trail of tears was very sad to me and alot of other people. A lot of innocent people died in the trail of tears. Not alot of people survived it. Most of the people died from starvation or disease. The dogs would lick the blood off the ground when people started bleeding from thier feet. -
Dred Scott case
A slave that fought for U.S. Citizenship. -
Georgia Platform
The Georgia was something that was supporting the Compromise of 1850. Just alittle while later the platform was adopted by congress. After that a group of Georgians formed a Unioun party. Then not long after that Howell Cobbs was elected the govenor. -
Compromise of 1850
By 1849 there was over 100,000 asking for state hood in the us.By 1850 we had 15 free states and also had 15 slave states. In the early 1850's Henry Clay thought or made up a compromise. He named it the compromise of 1850. Many people did not like the bill but Stephens, Cobbs, and Toombs asked all the people to at least except the bill that Henry clay had written out . -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It created the territories Kansas and Nebraska and opended new land for selttlement. -
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. -
Election of 1860
All the Democrats me in Charleston south Carolina on this day. It was to select the candidate to be the new president. Six weeks later the nothern democrats chose Douglas. The southern democrats chose John C. Breckenridge. -
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Union Blockade of Georgia
During the Civil War, the Union attempted to blockade to cut off goods, troops, and weapons from southern states -
Battle of Anteitam
The morning assault and vicious Confederate counterattacks swept back and forth through Miller’s Cornfield and the West Woods. -
Emancipation Proclamation
After the battle of Antietam was over the Proclamation was made and it effected 4 million african american slaves.Abraham Linlcon wanted the warto end but it didnt when he wanted it too. He wanted slavery to stop after it has been going on for 244 years of it. He wanted it to stop really bad but the people in the north did not agree with him and they got really mad at him. After all this happened on January 1,1863 all african american slaves were free to do as they please to do. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought in the town of Gettysburg, Pennslyvania. It was the Union vs. Confederate. It was during the American Civil War. -
Battle of Chickamauga
In the Battle of Chickamauga Braxton Bragg’s Army of Tennessee defeated a Union force commanded by General William Rosecrans in the Battle of Chickamauga, during the American Civil War. -
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Sherman's Blockade of Georgia
In\r the first few months his troops engaged in several fierce battles with Confederate soldiers on the outskirts of the city, including the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain on June 27, which the Union forces lost. -
Andersonville Prison Camp
It was a prison for the prisoners. There was a creek that ran through te center of the prison camp. The creek was a very toxic creek. What made the creek so toxic is were the prisoners used the bathroom is were the creek went under so when they used the bathroom it runs into the creek and makes it very toxic. -
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Sherman's March to the Sea
After leaving Atlanta, Sherman and some 60,000 of his soldiers headed toward Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of this March to the Sea was to frighten Georgia’s civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause. Sherman’s troops did not destroy any of the towns in their path, but they stole food and livestock and burned the houses and barns of people who tried to fight back. -
Freedman'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 -
Thirteenth Admendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
Ku Klux Klan Formed
Ku Klux Klan was a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for blacks. -
John and Lugenia Hope
John Hope was an important african american educater and race leader in the 20 century. In 1906 he became the first black president of Morehouse college. Lugenia Burns Hope was an early-twentieth-century social activist, reformer, and community organizer. Spending most of her career in Atlanta. -
WEB Dubois
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois 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. He earned fame for the publication of such works as Souls of Black Folk. -
Fourteenth Admendment
Granted Citizenship to "All persons born or naturalized in the U.S., ' which included former slaves rencently freed" -
Fifteenth Admendment
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color" -
International Cotton Exposition
This event was a fair held in Atlanta, Georgia along the Western and Atlantic railroad tracks. -
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. When he retired in January 1965, he had served in the U.S. Congress longer than anyone in history. -
Booker T. Washington
Born a slave on. Washington rose to become one of the most influential African-American intellectuals of the late 19th century. In 1881, he founded the a black school in Alabama devoted to training teachers. -
Benjamin Mays
Benjamin Elijah Mays was an American Baptist minister, and a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
The state of Louisiana enacted a law that required separate railway cars for blacks and whites. In 1892, Homer Adolph Plessy took a seat in a "whites only" car of a Louisiana train. He refused to move to the car reserved for blacks and was arrested. -
Richard Russel
Richard B. Russel served for 50 years as legilatur, governer for the state of Georgia. Russel worked to bring economic opportunities to Georgia. -
Tom Watson and the Populist
Tom Watson was known as the voice of the Populist party. Although later in his yaers, he was known for derive and racist politiction. Watson ran for president of the Populist canidate in 1904 and 1908 but never gained more than 1 percent of the national vote -
!906 Atlanta Riot
The Atlanta race riot was a mass civil disturbance in Atlanta. It was characterized at the time by Le Petit Journal and other media outlets as a "racial massacre of negroes". -
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. -
Herman Talmadge
Herman Talmadge was an Democratic American Republican. He served as the 70th governer of Georgia. -
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WW1
WW1 was the first world war> It was a global was centered in Europe, more than 7 million people died in this war. -
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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Great Depression
The Great Deprssion was the longest-lasting economic downturn in history. The Great Dep. began soon after the stock market crashed -
Andrew Young
He has served as a Congressman from Georgia's 5th congressional district, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, and Mayor of Atlanta. -
Eugene Talmadge
Eugene Talmadge was a Democratic Politicion who served 2 terms as Georgia's 67th Governer. He was elected to a 4th term as state cheif executive but died before taking office. -
Civilian Conservation Corps
The CCC was a public work relief program qperated in the US for unemployed men. It was part of the New Deal -
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Holocaust
The word “Holocaust," 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 WW2. -
Agriculture Adjustment Act
The AAA was a US federal law of the New Deal time which reduced ag production by buying farmers subsides not to plant on a part of their land and to kill excess livestock. -
Social Security
Socail Security Act was to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of federal old-age benefits. -
Rural Electrification
The Rural Electrification Act provided federal laons for the installation of eletrical distrubution system to serve rural areas of the US. The funding was channeld through cooperative electric power companies. -
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William B. Hartsfield
He was a man who became one of the greatest mayors of Atlanta. He served for six terms, which was longer than any person in tthe city's history -
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WW2
WW2 was the second world war. About 11 million people died. This war was the deadlist conflict in human history. -
hamilton holmes and charlayne hunter
They were the first two African-American students admitted to the University of Georgia. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on pearl Harbor was a surprise millitary strike by the Japnense Navy. -
Atlanta Hawks
The atlants hawks are aprofessional basketball team. They are based in Atlanta, Georgia. They have won one NBA championship. -
1946 Governors race
For a brief time in 1947 Georgia had 3 Governors. -
Brown v. Board of Education
This court case ended legal segregation in public schools. -
1956 State Flag
The Georgia state flag that was used from 1956 to 2001 featured a prominent Confederate battle flag. -
student nonviolent coordinating committee
SNCC formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement. -
Sibley Commision
In 1955, the General Assembly decided to cut off state funds to any system that integrated its schools. -
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). -
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Ivan Allen JR.
He served as mayor of Atlanta from 1962 to 1970. -
March on Washington
more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. -
Civil Right Act
The provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race in hiring, promoting, and firing. -
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 in the National Football League. -
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. -
Lester Maddox
Lester Maddox was an american polition who was the 75th governor of Georgia. -
Maynard Jackson
Maynard Jackson was the first african-american to be elected mayor in a major southern city. -
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter was born in Plains, Ga. He served as the 39th president of the Untited States. -
1996 Olympic Games
The 1996 Olympics produced a significant legacy for Atlanta and its leaders. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK jr. wazs an african-american civil rights movement leader, and is famous for his 'I have a dream' speech.
