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Jan 1, 1000
Archaic Period
Seasonal migrations, which means they returned to same spots each season.Simple pottery was very popular here, so was spear heads. They were used to hunt small game animals. These animlas were deer, fish, turkey, bear, oysters, and shellfish.No organized trade or religion was found here. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland Period
There were much more social people in Woodland. They began farming tribes live in areas for long periods of times. They have more advanced pottery. First people to use bow and arrows. They experimented with farming sunflowers, squash, gourds, beans, and maize. Started to see organized trade and focused on religion. -
Jan 1, 1000
Paleo Period
Paleo came from aisa on the Bering Strart Landbridge. They are nomadic meaning they moved from place to place following food sources. They have large spear headsfor hunting. They hunted large- game animals such assaber tooth tiger, bison, and mammoth. There was no organized trade or religion. -
Period: Jan 1, 1000 to
Mississippian Period
They improved in pemanenet settlements and developed a tribal government (chiefdom). Advancement in pottery and bow and arrow. They live off of farming squash, corn, and beans. They are small-game animal hunters. They have an organized trade between tribes and villages. They have most advanced religions. -
Nov 1, 1540
Hernando De Soto
Desoto explored Georgia in search of gold. Soldiers killed thousands of natives during battles.Thousands of natives died from diseases brought from explorers. they opended the door for further exploration by other countries such as Spain, France, and England. The journal kept on the expedition and helped understand native tribes -
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James Wright
As you can see, James Wright was the third royal govenor. As stated, Wright was born in london on May 8, 1716 to Isabella and Robrt Wright. According to the passage, he practiced law and purchased plantations and slaves. As you can see, he soon became attorney general of South Carolina in 1747. As stated Wright sailed for London, never to return. -
Highland Scots Arrive
Scots emigration to the colonies soared to 145,000 between 1707 and 1775. The growth in Scots overseas shipping also provided opprotunities and lower cost for passage. When the Scots migrated to America, North Carolina was a more popular place to settle than any of the other colonies. Many Scots were forced to give uo their land so that sheep could be raised. -
Salzburgers Arrive
The Georgia - Speaking Protestant colonist who found the town of Ebenezer in what is now known as Effingham county. The Salzburgers survived extreme hardships in both Europe and Georgia to establish a prosperous and culturally unique community. -
Charter of 1732
The Charter of 1732 was granted on April 21, 1732. James Oglethorpe believed that it was the best way for the poor to get a new life was to start a new colony. King George granted the charter. He also signed it. -
Georgia Founded
James Oglethorpe was given a charter from King George to create a new colony which he wold name georgia. This new colony is located between South Carolina and Florida. There were two main purposes. One was to serve as a place where debtors in prison could start anew. The other was it sewed as a barrier against Spanish expansion from Florida. -
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John Reynolds
According to the article, John Reynolds , a british capitian, served as Georgias first royal govenor from 1754 to 1757. As stated, he returned to england in 1751 in search of a new command. As you can see, Reynolds military efforts were less than succesful. As stated, he resisted any challenge to his authority. -
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Henery Ellis
As you can see Henery Ellis was the second royal govenor. As stated he carried cargoes of slaves from Africa to Jamaica from 1750 to 1755. According to the article, Ellis cultivated friendships or the heads of the creek north. As stated, he planned the successful British conques of Cuba. -
Austin Dabney
Austin Dabney was a slave who became a private in Georgia militia and fought against the British during the Revolutionary War. Dabney served as an artillery man under Elijah Clarke.Dabney is to believed to have been the only black soldier at the Battle Of Kettle Creek. On August 14, 1786, Dabney became the only African America to be granted 50 acres of land. At his death in Zebulon in 1830, Dabney left all his land and property to Harris and was buried in the Harris family plot in Pike County. -
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Yazoo Land Fraud
The Yazoo Land Fraud was one of the most significant in the post-Revolutionary War history of georgia. The Legislative were bribed to buy land and sell it for high prices. They were given 200,000 dollars but got taken from the government when they found out what they were doing. Despite the swelling opposition, the yazoo companies completed their purchase. -
Elijah Clarke/ Kettle Creek
Elijah Clarke was born in 1742, the son of John Clarke of Anson County, North Carolina. He married Hannah Harrington around 1763. On Febuary 14, 1779, Clarke led a charge at the rebel victory at Kettle Creek, Georgia. After the war Clarke served as State Assembly from 1781 to 1790. He doed in Augusta on December 5, 1799. Clarke County on the former Oconee frontier is named for him. -
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Constitutional Convention
When a convention was called in Philadelphia in 1787, to revise the Articles of Confederation, Madison prepared carefully. During the convection, Madison took a part in debates, was one of the most frequent speakers. The delegates signed the constitution on September 17, 1787 and sent it to the states for ratification. Virginia was the 10th state to ratify. Madison drifted a bill with 19 admendments for the First Congress to consider. Ten of these admendments were adopted as the Bill Of Rights. -
Missouri Compromise
This Compromise was to keep the balance between free and slave states. Missouri entered as a slave state. Maine entered as a free state. They drew a line at Missouri's southern border as a border for slavery. -
Missouri Compromise
This compromise was to keep the balance between free and slave states. Missouri eneters as a slave state. Maine enters as a free state. They drew a line at Missouri's southern border as a border for slavery. -
Dahlonega gold rush
Gold was discovered in the summer of 1829. In a matter of months , gold fever swept through the North Georgia mountains. By the early 1840's, gold became difficult to find. Many georgian miners moved west when gold was found in the Sierra Nevada in 1848, starting the California gold rush -
Worcester vs Georgia
Georgia passed a law on December 22, 1830. This law stated that white people could not live on cherokee land without taking an oath of allegance to the Govenor. Eleven people refused to sign the oath including Reverend Samuel Worcester, postmaster at the Cherokee Capital of New Echota.They were jailed on March of 1831. The cherokee run off their lands whipped and even killed. -
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Trail of Tears
In December of 1835, the Cherokee were told to come to New Echota. The treaty said that the cherokee would move west, and Georgia would move west, and Georgia would give them little money and food for the trip. They went to homes and community buildings and forcibly moved the cherokee to the stockades. Hundreds of men, women, and children died of cholera, dysentery,and fever while there. -
Compromise Of 1850
Because of California entering, the balance between free and slave was upseted. In Norhern areas, California enters as a free state. The slave trade in Washington D.C. ends. In southern areas there is the Figurative Stae Law, This states thaty -
Compromise Of 1850
Because of California entering, the bakance between free and slave stats will be upseted. In Northern areas, California eneters as a free state. The slave trade in Washinghton D.C. ends. In southern states there is the Figuartive Slave Law. this states that all runaway slaves must be returned. Utah and Mexico get to vote on slavery or not. This Compromise was passed by the Congress. -
Kansas - Nebraska Act
this was a law man-dating ''popular soveregnty'' in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. This means voting on the issue of slavery. Kansas was then called, ''Bleeding Kansas.'' Most people in the new territories belongned to one of the two groups proslavery or free sail. -
Dred-Scott Case
Dred Scott was a slave and his master moved to a free state. Scott sued for his fredom but the court ruled that he was property not a citizen. Property can go anywhere. The south supprots the decision. The north opposed the decision. -
Election Of 1860
The supporters of Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois controlled the plkatform commitee. Northern Democrats nominated Douglas for president. Republicans met in Chicago where they nominated Abraham Lincoln of Illinois. The Republican party and it's presidential canidate appeared to be against everything southeners wanted. -
Emancipation Proclamation
On September 22, 1862, five days after the Battle Of Antietam, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. This document ultimately affected 4 million slaves in the US. Lincoln wanted the confederate states to end war, return to the union, and end 244 years of slavery. He wanted them to surrender by January 1, 1863. If not the institution of slavery would end. If they did, slavery would continue in the south.
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Battle of Gettysburg
The battle on Gettysburg was the turning point of the civil war. This battle took place in Pennyhsylvania. It was fought on July 1-3, 1863, and resulted in a union victory that ended General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the north. This was the war's bloodiest battle with 51,000 casualties. -
Battle Of Chickamauga
In late 1863, union forces moved against the major confederate railroad center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, just across the Georgia line. General William Rosecrans led his troops against confederate General Braxton Bragg seven miles south at Chattanooga at Chickamauga Creek. He was also the union commander at Chickamauga. Braxton Bragg was Chickamauga's confederate commander. By November 1863, General Ulysses S. Grant had arrived with more troops and forced Bragg's to retreat south to Dalton. -
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Andersonville Prison Camp
In 1864, General Grant stopped exchanging prisoners with the south. One of the confederate prisons for union soldiers, was in Andersonville. During the 15 months Andersonville operated, almost 13,000 union prisoners died. The team recommended moving the soldiers to better places. Today, Andersonville is a nation 13,700 dead are buried. -
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International Cotton Exposition
In 1895 was host to 800,000 visitors during the three-month-long cotton states and International Exposition. This exhibition was a way to showcase the economic recovery of the south. This was held in Atlanta, Georgia. Visitors saw new machinery and learned how cotton was made into marketable places. John Phillip Sousa wrote the ''King Cotton March,'' in 1895 or the cotton states and international exposition. -
1906 Atlanta Riot
The year 1906 was a memorable year in Atlanta history. People believed that Hake Smith had used racial fears to gain votes during the gubernatorial campaign of that year. Saturday, September 22 at noon, local newspaper headlines carried false reports of black assaults. By 9pm, a crowd of over 5,000 whites and Africans had gathered on Decatur Street. Fears grew, and the attacks became real. The riot lasted 2 days. Human life was high. At least 18 African Americans and 3 whites were killed. -
Lester maddox
Lester Garfield Maddox, Sr. (September 30, 1915 – June 25, 2003), was an American politician who was the 75th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971. A populist Democrat, Maddox came to prominence as a staunch segregationist,[1] when he refused to serve black customers in his Atlanta restaurant, in defiance of the Civil Rights Act. Yet as Governor, he oversaw notable improvements in black employment. Later he served as Lieutenant Governor under Jimmy Carter. -
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Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
General U.S. Grant moved his army east to attack General Robert E. Lee. He left 112,000 men in Chatanooga under the command of William T. Sherman. He took these men and began a Campaign towards Atlanta. Atlanta was impportant because of it's industries and the fact that it was a railroad hub. Johnston was forced to retreat southward. On his way he burned bridges and blocked roads. This slowed down Sherman's advance about two miles away. -
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Holocaust
The Holocaust was the name given to the systematic extermination of 6 million Jews, and other undesirables. In the camps, many died from starvation, others died from diseases, mistreatment, and medical experiments. Prisoners, including children were gased in chambers they thought were showers. In 1986, Georgia commissions the Holocaust. The Holocaust was established to take lessons from the history of the Holocaust and used them to help read new generations of Georgia beyond racism and birgotry. -
Agriculture Adjustment Act
The Agriculture Adjustment Act was created on March of 1933. It paid farmers not to plant crops on part of their land. The legislation created price supports to raise farm prices by limiting production. One drawback of the AAA, was that farm subsides went to landowners rather than to the tenant farmers. The AAA was eventually declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court because it was not voluntary. -
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Social Security
Workers needed some protect against unemployment. In 1935, congress passed the Social Security Act. The federal government will provide retirements an unemployment insurance form taxes paid by both workers and their employers. Farm workers, however were not covered buy the new program. -
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William B. Hartsfield
William Hartsfield served as mayor of Atlanta for an astonishing six terms ( 1937-41) and (1942-61). He used his influence to make Atlanta the southeast air travel hub. He also helped read the city in the area of civil rights. In 1948, Mayor Hartfield hired 8 african american police officers for restricted duties and moved unheard of throughout most of the south.They found overwhelming support keeping the school system open. -
Pearl Harbor
After Japan invaded French Indochina in 1941, Roosevelt seized all Japanese property in the United States. December 7, 1941, was a peaceful Sunday morning. Suddenly around 8 am, the air was filled with the sound of machine gun fires and low-level bombing. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was over by 10 am. The damage to the navy's pacific fleet was incredible. Over 2 thousand people were killed and over 1 thousand were wounded. Congress declared war on Japan on December 8th 1941. -
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Brown V. Board Of Education
Brown v. Board Of Education Changed schools forever. This landmark case said that there was no such thing as ''separate but equal,'' and that schools in the south need to integrate. Many southern whites were upset about the idea that the government was intervening in the school. For African Americans, this was a major civil rights victory. This case over timed the Plessy v. Ferguson case. -
Rural Electrification
Rural Electrification was an important new deal program. In the 1960's, power companies mainly ran liner to towns and cities. Because the rural population was spread out, power lines were expensive to build and maintain. This authority reportedly was a result of president Roosevelt's first night at Warm Springs. By law a significant percentage of farmers in Georgia and other parts of the nation had electricity. -
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 in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public (known as "public accommodations"). P -
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Jimmy Carter In Georgia
Jimmy Carter, the only Georgian elected president of the United States, held office for one term 1977-81. During his years of public service at the local, state. and federal event, Carter'sprocess contained a unique blend of libertal social values and fiscal conservattion . He emphasized comprehensive reform and stressed efficiency and economy, advanced planning, and rational organization. He also championed equal rights for all americans. In 2002, he won the nobel peace prize for humanitation. -
Georgia Ratifies Constitution
And whereas the United States in congress assembled did, on the 28th day of September, resolved unanimously. And whereas the legislature of the state or Georgia did, on tyhe 26th day of October 1787 in pursance of the above-recited resolution of Congress. The delegates of the people in General Convention assembled pursant of th act in legislature in October last, have assented to and ratified. -
University Of Georgia Founded
The University Of Georgia, founded in 1785, and commonly referred to as UGA or simply Georgia is a American land-grant university and sea grant research university. The fisrt state-chartered university, it is the oldest and the largest of Georgia's institutions of higher learning. The University of Georgia is part of the University System of Georgia and is accredited by the Southern Association of colleges and schools. -
Capital Moves To Louisville
Georgia's Revolutionary War debt and the threat and the threat of a large scale conflict with the creek nation delayed the official opening of the Louisville statehouse until 1795 when delegates convened there for a stated constitutional convention. -
Union Blockade Of Georgia
A blockade would prevent the south from selling cotton abroad and importing needed war supplies from foreign nations. Their were over 650 private blockade runners during 1861. Household items such as soap, candles, and matches were hard to come by. There was a servere lack of replacement parts for manufacturing machinery. Life in Georgia, as in all southern states, became difficult. -
Ku Klux Klan
During Reconstruction the Klu Klux Klan became a force in Georgia. The Klan was a secret organization that tried to keep freedom from excersising their new civil rights. The Klu Klux Klan began in Tennesse as a social club. All knew the price for sufferage could be death. Congress responded by passing the Georgia Act in December 1869. This law returned to Georgia military control for the third time. -
Henery McNeal Turner
Henery McNeal Turner was expelled from his seat in the Georgia State Legislature on the grounds that he did not have the right to vote on. He also didin't have the right to hold political office. African Americans joined the Freedman's Bureo during. -
Carl Vinson
It was impossible to review World War Two without examining the contributions of one of Georgia's most influential leaders, Carl Vinson. He served 24 consecutive terms representing Georgia in the House Of Represenatives from 1941 til 1965. Vinson was often referred to as '' father of the two-ocean navy. Almost two years before Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Vinson manuered two important bills through congress. The law to expand the Naval Aviation System to 10,000 planes directly benifited GA. -
Richard Russell
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Andrew Young
Andrew Jackson Young Jr. was born on March 12, 1932, in New Orleans, Louisianna, into a prosperous widdle-class family. Andrew's life-long work as a politican human rights activist, and buisnessman has been in a great measure responsible for the development of Atlanta's reputation as an international city. He graduated from Howard University in Washington D.C., in 1951 with a bachelor of science degree in biology. -
Martin Luther King
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.
King became a civil rights activist early in his career.
