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Jan 1, 1000
Woodland
1000bc to 1000ad.the Woodland Indians were less nomadic and settled into huts and cultivated the land. They ate fish and small crops. They made complex pottery. These people were the last of the prehistoric clans as they grew into tribes. -
Jan 1, 1000
Paleo
The paleo period lasted from about 10,000 bc to about 8,000bc. This time was about 12,000 years ago. This period was near the end of the ice age. The paleo indians were the first human settlers in Georgia. They were hunter-gatherers and moved from place to place when the resources in one area ran out. Their tools were made from chipped stone and carved bone. Artifacts from this time include arrowheads, or points. -
Jan 1, 1000
Archaic
The Archaic Indians were nomadic hunter-gatherers, moving from place to place. They used spears and projectile points to hunt with. They where native between Savannah and Augusta, and also appered on the Savannah River.They were known as the mound builders and most of their homes were underground shaped and shaped like hills. This time period was 8000-1000 BC. -
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Mississippian
The Mississippian Indians had a cheifdom society with social ranking of elites and commoners. They lived in villages consisting of a defensive structure around the outside ,then a residential,or farming area,and then a central plaza,or gathering place at the center. They ate crops and small game. The settling of the Europeans introduced disease and slave trade which decreased the number of Mississippian Indians. The period lasted 1000-1600. -
Mar 3, 1540
Hernando de Soto
Spanish explorer, Hernando de Soto, entered Georgia on Mar. 3, 1540 as the first European to explore the interior of Georgia. He led a team of 600 across the state looking for gold & wealth to claim. He took shelter with Indians but did not leave on good terms. At the present day site of Rome, GA, he left an Indian village ransacked and without any resources for his victims during the upcoming winter. He died of fever in 1542. {1496-1542} -
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John Reynolds
In England at age 15 he joined the navy. His carear grew slowly. He sailed his first vessel [Scipio] in 1745 , The next year he captained the Arundel a 40 gun vessel. The leader of the board of trade, Lord George Halifax , made him the new governer of Royal Georgia. -
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Henry Ellis
Although he's been Georgia's second founder he was the second royal governor of Georgia. Georgians learned from Henry how to govern themselves.The first governer failed to do so. From 1750-1755 he cargoed slaves from Jamacia and Africa to America.Terms 1757-1760 -
Charter of 1732
Also known as the Royal Charter, The Charter of 1732 was approved on June 9, 1732, and officially created the colony of Georgia. The charterd allowed the trustees to govern Georgia, but the trustees did not trust the colonists to make their own laws. Instead, the trustees made all the laws for the colony even though the other colonies were governed by their people. This practice continued until 1740. -
Salzburgers arrive
They sailed to Georgia under the support of King George after the protestant expulsion in Salzburg. They settled in Ebenezer which is modern day Effingham county. They established the Jerusalem Church which still stands. This first settlement had poor location & failed. Their second settlement was on the Savannah River and was called New Ebenezer. Their people are credited with the first water-driven gristmill in Georgia.They established rice, barley, & saw mills, and also had a silk filature. -
Highland Scots arrive
The Highland Scots were a group of trained warriors recruited to come to the Georgia colony. They were led by Hugh Mackay and George Dunbar and settled at Barnwell's Bluff on the site of Fort King George. They named the settlement Darien. They built a fort and became Georgia's defense. -
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James Wright
He played a key role in holding back the flame of revolution in Georgia long after it had flared violently in every other colony. one of his duties was to launch and enforce the stamp act. TERMS:1742-1779 -
Austin Dabney
As a freed slave Austin Dabney chose to be in the military in the Revolutionary War.He deid in 1830. He served along with Elijah Clarke. He's a big figure in the free the slaves movement. -
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American Revolution
The great revolution, but it wasn't great it was a terrible blood bath.The Americans were trying to become free from Great Britain. This was the time of the boston tea party,stamp act,and the sugar act -
Elijah Clarke/Kettle Creek battle
The Battle of Kettle Creek was during the Revolutionary War. This small battle really showed patriotism. Elijah Clark 1742-1799. Clark survived smallpox and the mumps during the war. He got a wound during the war against the Cheerokees -
University of GEORGIA was founded
Georgia became the first state to have a state corporated college. The general assembly used 40,000 acres of land to build the college. -
capital moved to louisville
In 1786 the legislative appointed a commission to find a new site for the capitol of georgia.The commissions task was to find a place within 20 miles of the indian tradeing centerknown as Galphinton. The commission purchased 1000 acres for the capitol. They named it louisville after Louis XVI of france. In1796 the new capitol building was completed and louisville was the state capitol in 1806. -
Constitutional Convention
A get together between the government officials for the purpose of writing a new constitution or revising an existing constitution. This event took place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
Georgia founded
Georgia's date of statehood was Jan. 2, 1788. Georgia was the 4th state to be established.Gerorgia is 59,441 square miles long.Georgia is the 8th most populous state in the United States. Georgia was named after King George the 2nd . -
Georgia ratifies the Constitution
There has always been controversy around the U.S. Constitution. It was born in controversy and remains to this day. Georgia called together a special convention in Augusta to consider the eastablished charter. The delegates voted unanimously to ratify the new U.S. Constitution, the fourth state to do so, on January 2, 1788, -
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trail of tears
It was a route native native americans from georgia to oklahoma.Andrew jackson had a plan to move all the remaning native americans due to the gold rush. The gold was found on indian territory.the new territory consisted of georgia,north carolina, south carolina,kentucky, and tennese. -
eli whitneys cotton gin
Before Eli Whitney's cotton gin the production of cotton was slow and painful for the hierd hands. The cotton gin could generate up to 50 of clean cotton a day. The cotton gin would seperate from the raw cotton. -
yazoo land fraud
It was a scheme by which Georgia legislators were persuaded in 1795 to sell majority of the land now making up the state of Mississippi to four land companies for the sum of $500,000, far below its potential market value. -
missiouri comprimise
In 1819 missouri ask for admission to be a a slave state in the union. if the gave missiouri the admission it might hurt the balance of slave free states.So in 1920 the government made a comprimise to help the balance between the free states and the slave states. -
dahlonega gold rush
Some storys have either Frank Logan or his slave making the find the gold in White County, Georgia, in Dukes Creek. John Witheroods found a three-ounce nugget along Dukes Creek.Gold was found in Carroll County, Georgia, in 1830.In the early stages of the gold rush, the majority of the mining was placer mining. -
worcester v georgia
Samuel Worcester was a minister and worked with the american board of commissioners for foreign missions. He lived with cherokee and translated the bible and legal rights of federal treaties.Georgia made a law that would not let white people reside with the cherokee. Worecester was arrested and told to leave but he refused.Lawyers that was hired by the cherokee nation appcaled to the surpreme court.georgias extention law was struck down. -
carl vinson
Carl Vinson was a United States Representative from Georgia. He was a Democrat and the first person to serve for more than 50 years in the United States House of Representatives. He was known as "The Father of the Two-Ocean Navy". -
comprimise of 1850
Henery Clay introduceda comprimise in 1850 that dealt with slavery.The comprimise consisted of five bills.During the comprimise slave trade in washington,dc was a bolished and fugitives slave act was amended. -
georgia comprimise
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.Governor Towns of Georgia, acting under the instructions of the state legislature, called for a special election to a state convention. The convention, scheduled for November, was intended to determine the appropriate response to the Compromise of 1850. -
kansas-nebraska act
The kansas-nebraska act opened new territory for settelment.Stephen A Douglaspresent the act of 1854to appeal the missouri comprimise. it allowed white males to decide if they wanted a free slave state or a slave state. -
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. -
tom watson and the populists
he was the national leader of the populists.He was elected to the Georgia General Assembly (1882), the U.S. House of Representatives (1890), and the U.S. Senate (1920), where he served for only a short time before his death. Nominated by the Populist Party as its vice presidential candidate in 1896, he achieved national recognition for his egalitarian, agrarian agenda. -
dred scott case
The case had been brought to the court by Dred Scott.He was a slave who had lived with his owner in a free state before returning to the slave state of Missouri. 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. -
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. he was also born the same day i was. -
election of 1860
The United States presidential election of 1860 was the 19th 4-year presidential election. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860, and served as the instant modivation for the outbreak of the American Civil War.The Democrats met in Charleston, South Carolina, in April 1860 to select their candidate for President in the upcoming election. -
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the union blockade of georgia
a blockade that stopped weapons, army forces, troops, and goods from an area. at the beginning of the Civil War, the Union blocked these goods from the Confederate states. The effort was effective and had a significant impact on the south. -
battle of antietam
The Battle of Antietam also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg. Was particularly in the South, fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign.It was between George B. McClellan's army of pottomac and Robert E. Lee's army of northern virginia. Robert was confedirate and George was union. -
emancipation proclimation
It freed the slaves. It did not include Delaware,Kentucky,or Missouri. Abraham Lincoln issued the Emanceipation Proclimation. -
battle of gettysburg
Robert e lee positioned his army around the town of gettysburg and waited for the union troops. the confedirates lost this battle. this wore an estimated 51,000 soldiers, captured, dead, wounded, or missing. -
battle of chickuamagua
The confederate troops fought union soldiers, armed with high quality rifles. After three days of fighting, the union troops retreated to chattanoga. -
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andersonville prison camp
andersonville was a prison ran by the conederates and was the largest housing about 45,000 prisoners. It was a prison for 14 mounths and had terrible living conditions. close to 1/3 of the prisoners died. -
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shermans campaign
Sherman's Atlanta Campaign began in May 1864. Atlanta surrendered to Union forces in September 1864. Sherman had the city burned. Atlanta was left in ruins. -
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shermans march to sea
After leaveing atlanta, sherman and his troops headed to savannah. They wanted to scare the confederates into giving up. If anyone fought back there homes and barns would burned. -
13th amendments
the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the united states. this means it ended slavery. the amendment was passed by congress on jan 1865 and adopted was ratified in dec 1865. this was the first of the reconstruction amendments. -
freedman's bureau
The U.S. Bureau of Refugees, freedmen and abandoned lands, well known as the Freedmen's Bureau, was started in 1865 by Congress to help former african american slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War.The Freedmen’s Bureau was made into districts covering the 11 former rebel states, the border states of Maryland, Kentucky, West Virginia, Washington, D.C. Each district was headed by an assistant commissioner. -
ku klux klan [kkk]
this group was formed by white males in protest of policies for equality of blacks. they were violent aginst white and black republican leaders. their goal, white supremacy -
WEB DuBois
william edward burghardt "W. E. B." du bois was an \american sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, pan-africanist, author and editor. born in great barrington, massachusetts, du bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. -
14th amendment
the second of the reconstruction amendments. The 14th amendment started that all people in the u.s. were citizens. its goal was to make sure the civil rights act stayed valid. -
henery mcneal turner
he was an african american preacher. in 1863, turner helped orginize the 1st reiment of african american troops and sereved as the army chaplin. after the war he helped create georgias republican party and was elected to the ga house of represintitives repressing macon. -
15th amenment
the third of the reconstruction amendments. The 15th amendment gave african american men the right to vote. even though it was ratified in 1870. it took the voting rights of 1965 to fully give african americans all rights to vote. -
john and lugenia hope
Lugenia Burns Hope was an early-twentieth-century social activist, reformer, and community organizer. Spending most of her career in Atlanta, she worked for the improvement of black communities through traditional social work, community health campaigns, and political pressure for better education and infrastructure. -
atlanta braves
The dwindling fan support that caused the Braves to move from Boston also caused them to move from Milwaukee to Atlanta. That didn't mean the city of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin would go down without a fight. After a series of court battles, injunctions and appeals, the team finally arrived in Atlanta in 1966. They were welcomed with a parade and quickly grew comfortable in their new home, Atlanta Stadium. It only took a few years for the Braves to return to their winning ways. -
international cotton exposition
International Cotton Exposition was a world's festival taken place in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 5 to December 31 in 1881. The location was along the Western & Atlantic Railroad tracks near the present-day King Plow Arts Center development in the West Midtown area. this event was also known as [I.C.E.] -
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. -
benjamin mays
Benjamin Elijah Mays 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. -
plessy v.s ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, 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". -
richard russel
Richard Brevard Russell, Jr. was an American politician from Georgia. A member of the Democratic Party, he briefly served as speaker of the Georgia house, and as Governor 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 National Convention. -
1956 state flag
The new flag may have resulted from a 1914 law changing the date on Georgia’s state seal from 1799 (the date the seal was adopted) to 1776 (the year of independence). Because some flag makers had been including “1799” beneath the coat of arms, it became necessary to change the date on new flags. At that point, possibly the Secretary of State or a flag manufacturer may have decided that the entire state seal created a more uniform flag. -
1906 atlanta riot
The Atlanta race riot of 1906 was a mass civil disturbance in Atlanta, Georgia which began the evening of September 22 and lasted until September 24, 1906. It was characterized at the time by Le Petit Journal and other media outlets as a "Racial Massacre Of Negroes". -
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ivan allen jr
He was Atlanta’s mayor for eight years in the 1960s, and he was the only Southern politician to testify in favor of the Civil Rights Act. -
leo frank case
The Leo Frank case is one of the most famous and highly broadcasted 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 Eugene Talmadge, Sr., was a Democratic American politician from the state of Georgia. He served as the 70th Governor of Georgia briefly in 1947 and again from 1948 to 1955. -
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WWI
Allied Powers France, British Empire, Russia, Serbia, Montenegro, Belgium, Japan, Italy , Portugal, Romania, Hejaz, United States, Greece, Thailand, Siam.Central Powers, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria.world war I, also known as the first world war or the great war was a global war centred in europe that began july 1914 and lasted until november 1918. -
lester maddox
Lester Garfield Maddox, Sr. 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, when he refused to serve black customers in his Atlanta restaurant, in defiance of the Civil Rights Act. Later he served as Lieutenant Governor under Jimmy Carter. -
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. -
jimmy carter in georgia
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician and author who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Carter Center. -
martin 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 depression
The Great Depression (1929-39) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
andrew young
Andrew Jackson Young, Jr. is an American politician, diplomat, activist, and pastor from Georgia. He has served as a Congressman from Georgia's 5th congressional district, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, and Mayor of Atlanta. -
civilian conservation corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps 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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holocaust
The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. -
agricultural adjustment act
The Agricultural Adjustment Act 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. -
social security act
any government system that provides monetary assistance to people with an inadequate or no income.Brief Graphic Organizational History. The Social Security Administration (SSA) began life as the Social Security Board (SSB). The SSB was created at the moment President Roosevelt inked his signature on the Social Security Act. -
rural electrification
Rural electrification is the process of bringing electrical power to rural and remote areas.Electricity is used not only for lighting and household purposes, but it also allows for mechanization of many farming operations, such as threshing, milking, and hoisting grain for storage. In areas facing labor shortages, this allows for greater productivity at reduced cost. -
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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.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 "A City Too Busy to Hate."
William B. Hartsfield. -
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WWII
World War II also known as the Second World War, was a global war. It took place between 1939 to 1945. Most of the world's countries, including all of the great powers, fought as part of two military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. The war was fought as a "total war", meaning all resources a country had were used in the war, even those that didn't belong to the army, such as factories. It involved more countries, cost more money, and killed more people than any other war. -
hamilton holmes and charilyne hunter
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. -
pearl harbor
Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, 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. -
atlanta hawks
The Atlanta Hawks are a professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Hawks compete in the National Basketball Association as a member team of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division. -
1946 governors race
For a brief period of time in 1947, Georgia had three governors. Eugene Talmadge won election to a fourth term as Georgia's governor in 1946, but died before his inauguration. To fill the vacancy, Eugene's son, Herman, was appointed by the state Legislature. -
brown vs 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. -
student nonviolent coordination commitiee
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was one of the most important organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.It emerged from a student meeting organized by Ella Baker held at Shaw University in April 1960. SNCC grew into a large organization with many supporters in the North who helped raise funds to support SNCC's work in the South, allowing full-time SNCC workers to have a $10 per week salary. -
sibley commission
In 1955, the General Assembly decided to cut off state funds to any system that integrated its schools. Governor Ernest Vandiver was forced to choose between closing the public schools or to give the situation to the Federal Government to order them to desegregate the schools. State representative George Busbee introduced the legislation creating the General Assembly Committee on schools known as Sibley Commission. -
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, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. -
march on washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington as styled in a sound recording released after the event, was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and called for civil and economic rights for African Americans. -
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. -
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.NEVER WON A SUPER BOWL!!!!!!!!! -
maynard jackson elected mayor
Maynard Holbrook Jackson, Jr., was an American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and the first African American mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, serving three terms. -
1996 olimpic games
The 1996 Summer Olympics known officially as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially as the Centennial Olympic Games, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, from July 19 to August 4, 1996. A record 197 nations, all current IOC member nations, took part in the Games, comprising 10,318 athletes.
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