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Jan 1, 1000
Paleo
the paleos technology was a type of spear head called a clovis point.the paleos were "nomatic" which means that they moved from place to place.the paleo had no form of religon.the paleos main food source was large game animals for ex: a mammoth,ground sloth,and sador tooth tiger.paleo had no source of farming.Also the paleo indians existed from 8000 BC to 10,000 BC -
Jan 1, 1000
woodland
The woodland indians lived in an area for long periods of time.The woodland indainsalso started forming small tribes.The woodland indains used advanced technology for example more abvanced pottery bow and arrow began experimenting their own food "farming" such as sunflowers,squash,gourds,beans,maizw small game.Some trade between groups beginning of religious thinking burying dead in religious mounds. -
Jan 1, 1000
mississippian
most advanced and first true civilization evidence of gov. system of social order largevillages and cities.
Contact with europeans.most advanced bow and arrow advanced pottery statues Jewlery advanced stone tools.
first to live off of ag. corn,beans,squash small game animals.
most advanced system of trade.such as gulf,oyster,shells,falnd in mid west.
most advanced religion.
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Jan 1, 1000
Archaic
the Archaic indians used pithouses,caves,and rocks for houses.Also archaic indians used simple forms of pottery. Archaic indians hunted smaller animals because large animals were extinct. Aiso the archaic indians used smaller more pointed arrow heads.The archaic indians used bow and arrows to hunt deer,turkey,bear,and fish. -
Nov 1, 1540
Hernando De Soto
De Soto came to georgia searching for gold. he had more advanced weapons. he killed over 1,000 indians.on the way to another colony de ssoto died. -
charter of 1732
the charter was signed by king george the second.the charter was a document stating the rules and laws of the new colony.when the trustees arrived there was three main rules no rum,no jewish people, and no aferican americans.the trustees got 50 acres of land and people who payed there way to come to the new colony got 500 acres of land. -
Georgia Founded
Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe.All of this started in england.Police put depters (people thats in dept) in prison.James Oglethorpe had a friend that was in dept.James Oglethorpes friend that was in prison soon died of small pox.So Olethorpe went to King Georgeand asked if he can bring the depters to a new colony.He said that we will name the colony after you (Georgia). -
salzburgers arrive
The Georgia Salzburgers, a group of German-speaking Protestant colonists, founded the town of Ebenezer in what is now Effingham County. Arriving in 1734, the group received support from King George II of England and the Georgia Trustees after being expelled from its home in the Catholic principality of Salzburg (in present-day Austria). The Salzburgers survived extreme hardships in both Europe and Georgia to establish a prosperous and culturally unique community. Protestant Expulsion In 1731. -
highland scots
Recruiting and settling the Scottish Highlanders as the first line of defense on the southern frontier in Georgia was an important decision on the part of the trustees and crucial for the survival of the colony, but this portion of Georgia's history has been sadly neglected until now. -
John Reynolds
From 1754 to1757 John Reynolds was the first governor in georgia. First people started liking him.John Reynolds threw the legislature then every one started to hate him -
Henry Ellis
From 1757 to 1760 Henry Ellis was the second governor of georgia. Like John Reynolds Henry Ellis was liked at one time then it down hill.After three years of being governor he soon had to go back to england because he was very ill. -
James Wright
From 1760 to 1782 James wright was the thrid governor of georgia.First ti was John Reynolds then it was Henry Ellis now its James Wright.James Wright was the longest governor of georgia.the people of georgia had to either to back to england or stay and live with it.After 22 years James Wright had to go back to also went back to england because of a skin diese -
American Revolution
The American Revolution lasted from aplil 19,1775 till september 3,1783. -
william b. hartsfield
The youngest of three sons, William Berry Hartsfield was born March 1, 1890, to Charles Green Hartsfield and Victoria Dagnall Hartsfield in Atlanta. He was educated in the Atlanta public school system but did not finish high school or attend college. He married Pearl Williams on August 2, 1913. They had two children, William Berry Jr. and Mildred. In 1962, after nearly fifty years of marriage, they divorced. On July 11, 1962, Hartsfield married Tollie Bedenbaugh Tolan of Athens. -
benjamin mays
Benjamin Elijah Mays (August 1, 1894 – March 28, 1984) was an American black minister, educator, sociologist, social activist and the president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia from 1940 to 1967. Mays was also a significant mentor to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and was among the most articulate and outspoken critics of segregation before the rise of the modern civil rights movement in the United States. -
ivan allen jr.
Allen was born in Atlanta on March 15, 1911, the only son of Ivan Allen Sr., the founder of the Ivan Allen Company, an office products company, and Irene Beaumont Allen. After graduating from the local Boys High School, Allen attended the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1929 to 1933, majoring in business administration. After graduation he went to work for his father's company. He married Louise Richardson, the granddaughter of the influential Atlanta businessman Hugh T. Inman, on January 1 -
Lester Maddox
Born in Atlanta to a working-class family on September 30, 1915, Lester Garfield Maddox grew up knowing poverty. By
Lester Maddox, in September 1966, pleased to have just won the Democratic primary race for governor.
Lester Maddox
1933 he had dropped out of high school and was working at Atlantic Steel and the Works Progress Administration.Brought to office in 1966 by widespread dissatisfaction with desegregation, Maddox surprised many by serving as an able unquistionable cheif executive. -
Jimmy Carter in Georgia
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924)was raised in rural georgia picking peanuts as a farmer.His father was a farmer and his mother was a nurse. Jimmy Carter was an American politician, author, and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize. -
martin luther king jr.
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a respected member of Montgomery's black community, refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger when asked to do so.
King's interest in nonviolence became a central tenet of his leadership of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and helped lead a young generation of African Americans to promote desegregation through peaceful sit-ins.
Martin Luther King Jr. during Civil Rights Movement
She was arrested for violating a city segregation statute. -
Andrew Young
Andrew Jackson Young (born March 12, 1932) 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. He served as President of the National Council of Churches USA, was a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and was a supporter and friend of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Maynard Jackson
Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr. was born on March 23, 1938, in Dallas, Texas, where his father, Maynard H. Jackson Sr., was a minister. The family moved to Atlanta in 1945, when Maynard Sr. took the pastorship at Friendship Baptist Church. Maynard Jr.'s Atlanta roots ran deep. His mother, Irene Dobbs Jackson, a professor of French at Spelman College, was the daughter of John Wesley Dobbs, founder of the Georgia Voters League. maynard's father died in 1953,thats when became the first Af. Am.mayor -
the 1946 governor's race
The 1946 governor's race is known as the three governors controversy. When Eugene Talmadge died, the General Assembly chose his son, as governor. The lieutenant governor Melvin Thompson, objected and claimed that he should be the new governor. Ellis Arnall refused to leave the office. Georgia Supreme Court decided for Melvin Thompson. -
atlanta hawks
Their origins can be traced to the establishment of the Tri-Cities Blackhawks in 1946, a member of the National Basketball League. In 1949, they joined the National Basketball Association (NBA) as part of the National Basketball League and the Basketball Association of America merger. In 1951, the team moved to Milwaukee, where they changed their name to the Hawks. -
brown vs board of education
Brown v. Board of Education 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 and unequal -
1956 state flag
In 1955 the Atlanta attorney and state Democratic Party leader John Sammons Bell began a campaign to substitute the square Confederate battle flag for the red and white bars on Georgia's state flag.
Georgia's General Assembly ratified the addition of the Confederate Battle Flag to the state flag in 1956 as a backlash to the Brown v. Board of Education decisions, which federally imposed integration of public schools.
State Flag, -
sibley commission
In 1960 Governor Ernest Vandiver Jr., forced to decide between closing public schools or complying with a federal order to desegregate them, tapped state representative George Busbee to introduce legislation creating the General Assembly Committee on Schools. Commonly known as the Sibley Commission, the committee was charged with gathering state residents' sentiments regarding desegregation and reporting back to the governor. The report issued by the Sibley Commission laid the foundation for. -
student non-violent coordinating committee
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), was one of the most important organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.[1] [2] 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. -
civil rights act
The civil rights movement in the
Protesters march down Broad Street in Albany during the Albany Movement, one of the largest civil rights campaigns in Georgia. From 1961 to 1962 black residents protested the city's segregationist practices. Around 1,200 protesters were imprisoned as a result of their activities during the movement.
Albany Movement
American South was one of the most significant and successful social movements in the modern world. Black Georgians formed part of this southern move -
The Albany Movement
According to traditional accounts the Albany Movement began in fall 1961 and ended in summer 1962. It was the first mass movement in the modern civil rights era to have as its goal the desegregation of an entire community, and it resulted in the jailing of more than 1,000 African Americans in Albany and surrounding rural counties. Martin Luther King Jr. was drawn into the movement in December 1961 when hundreds of black protesters, including himself, were arrested in one week. -
march on washington
Martin Luther King Jr. led the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August 1963. King's "I Have a Dream" speech was the most memorable event of the day and confirmed him as black America's most prominent spokesperson.This day has been celabrated for a long time. -
1996 olimpic games
The 1996 olimpic games lasted from july 19 1996 to august 4 1996.The 1996 olimpic games were officially known as the XXVI olimpiad.A record of 197 nations all former IOC member nations, took part in the games bringing together 10,318 athletes from around the world. Atlanta became the fifth American city to host the Olympic Games and the third to hold a Summer Olympic Games. -
atlanta braves
The Atlanta Braves are a Major League Baseball (MLB) team in Atlanta, Georgia, playing in the Eastern Division of the National League. The Braves have played home games at Turner Field since 1997 and play spring training games in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. In 2017, the team is to move to SunTrust Park, a new stadium complex in the Cumberland district of Cobb County just north of the I-285 bypass. -
hamilton holmes and charlayne hunter
hamilton holmes and charlayne hunter were the first aferican american students not only to go to but to graduate from a white collage.they went there because segergation had just turned illegal in the united states. -
atlanta falcons
The Falcons joined the NFL in 1965[1] 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. -
herman 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.
