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Jan 1, 1000
Archaic
Archaic people were hunters and gatherers of game and berries. They moved around in small bands of 25-50 in search of seasonal food. Their houses were small but provided simple shelter from the elements. Archeologists identifyArchaic sites by the presence of a certain type of stone spear points that featured notches on the base. The Archaic indians are known for their pottery leading to the evolution of cooking technology. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland
This period witnessed the development of many trends that began during the preceding late Archaic period and reched a climax during the subsequent Missisipian Period. These trends included increases in sedintariness and social stratifications, an elaboration of ritual and ceremony, and an intensification of horticulture. The period is divided into Early, Middle, and Late subperiods. -
Jan 1, 1000
Paleo
Paleo indians used lance-shapped projectiles for hunting called arrowheads. They moved over large areas on foot and by water in small bands of 25-50 people. Paleo indians were hunters and gatherers. there are fewer than 200 archeoligy sites in the state of GA thought to be paleo indian, therefore when these sites are discovered they should be prtoected -
Period: Jan 1, 1000 to
Mississippian
The Mississippian Period in the midwestern and southeastern United States, which lasted from about 800 to 1600, saw the develoment of some of the most complex societes that ever existed in North America, Mississippian people were horticulturists They grew much of their food in small gardens using simple tools like stone axes, digging sticks, and fire. Corn, beans, squash, sunflowers, goosefeet, sumpweed, and other plants are cultivated. -
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to Jan 1, 1542
Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto was a spanish explorer ond conquistador who participated in the conquests of Central America and Peru and descovered the Mississippi River. -
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James Wright
James Wright was the third and last royal governor of Georgia derving from 1760 to 1782 with a brief interruption early in the American Revolution. -
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Henry Ellis
Henry Ellis was an explorer, author, and a colonial governor of U.S. state of Georgia and Nova Scotia. Ellis was born in County Monaghan, Ireland. He was educated at the Temple Church in London -
Charter of 1732
The first 20 years of Georgia history are referred to as Trustee Georgia because during that time a board of Trustees governed by the colony. England's King George signed a charter establinshing the colony abd creating its governing board on April 21, 1732 -
Salzburgers Arrive
The Georgia Salzburgers, a group of German-speaking Protestant colonists, founded by the town of Ebenezer in what is now Effingham County. Arriving in 1734, the group recieved support from King George II of England and the Georgia Trustees after the were expelled from their home in the Catholic principalilty of Salzburg (in present-day Austria). The salzburgers survived the extreme hardships in both Europe and Georgia to establish a prosperous ond culturally inique community. -
Highland Scots Arrive
In October 1735, a band of highland scots recruted from the vicinity of Inverness, Scotland, by Hugh Mackay and George Dunbar, sailed from Inverness on the Prince of Wales -
Elijah Clarke/ Kettle Cr.
Elijah Clarke, born in 1742 at Anson County, North Carolina was an officer of the Georgia Militia and here in the American Revolutionary War. He fought in the southern theater and in the Battle of Kettle Creek. -
Austin Dabney
Austin Dabney was a slave who fought in the American Revolutionary War. He was born a mulatto slave in Wake County, North Carolina, sometime in the 1760's. -
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American Revolution
The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain, and founded the United States of America -
Constitutional Convention
Constitutional convetions are distinctly American political innovations, first appearing during the era of the Revolutionary War. Georgia was among the first states to use a meeting of delegates to create a constitution. -
University of Georgia Founded
When the University of Georgia was incorporated by an act of the Georgia Assembly on January 27, 1785, Georgia became the first state to charter a state-supported universtity. In 1784 the General Assembly had set aside 40,000 acres of land of endowa college or seminary of learning. -
Capitol Moved To Louisville
Louisville, the county seat of Jefferson county , also served as Georgia's third capitol from 1796 until 1807. The town grew as a result of both large - scale immigration to the Georgia upcountry after the American Revolution and the desire of many Georgians to enhance the state's commercial prosperity. By the mid 1780's the new upcountry settlers outnumbered those in the older coastal counties, and upcountries -
Georgia Ratifies Constitution
The U.S. Constitution has always been contentious. Our sacred charter was born in controversy and remains so to this day -
Georgia Founded
Georgia is a southeastern U.S. state whose diverse terrain spans coastal marshlands and beaches to wide streches of farmland. Atlanta, its sprawling capitol, is the birthplace of civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. Georgia's other cities include Savannah, famed for its 18- and 19- century architecture and leafy public squares, the college town of Athens, and Augusta, which hosts the Masters Golf Tornament -
Eli Whitney and The Cotton Gin
In 1794, U.S. born Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. By the mid-19th century, cotton had become America's leading export. Despite its success, the cotton gin made little money for Whitney's dueto patent-infringment issues. Also, his invention offered southern planters a justification to maintain and expand slavery even as a growing number of americans supporting it. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
The Yazoo Land Fraud was one of the most significant events in the post revolutionary war history of Georgia. The bizarre climax to a decade of frenzied speculation in the state's public lands, the Yazoo sale of 1795 did much to shape Georgia's politics and to strain relations with the federal government for a generation. -
Missouri Compromise
In the years leading up to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, tensions began to rise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions within the U.S. Congress and across the country. They reached a boiling point after Missouri's 1819 request for admission to the union as a slave states and free states. To keep the peace, Congress orchestrated a two-part compromise, granted Missouri's request but also admitting Maine as a free state. -
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John Reynolds
John Fulton Reynolds was a career United States Army officer and a general in the American Civil War, one of the Union Army's most respected senior commanders, he played a key role in committing the Potomac to The Battle of Gettysburg and was killed at the start of the battle -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
The Georgia gold rush was the second significant gold rush inthe U.S., and overshadowed the previous rush in North Carolina. It started in 1828 in present-day Lumpkin County near the county seat, Dohlonega, and soon spread through the North Georgia mountains, follow ing the Georgia Gold Beat. -
Worchester vs. Georgia
In the court case of Worchester vs. Georgia the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1832 that the Cherokee Indians constituted a nation holding distinct sovereign powers. Although the decision became foundation of the principle of tribal sovereignity in the 20th century, it didn't prtect the cherokees from being removed from their ancestrial homeland in the Southeast. -
Henry Mcneil Turner
Henry Mcneil Turner was a minister politician, and the first southern bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; he was a pioneer in Georgia in organizing new congregations of the independant black denomation after the American Civil War -
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Trial of Tears
In 1838 and 1839, as a 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 the "Trial of Tears", because of its devistating effects. -
Comprimise of 1850
The Comprimise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the U.S. Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territitories acquired during the mexican-American War (1846-1848) -
Georiga Platform
The Georgia Platform was a statement executed by a Georgia Convention in Milledgeville, Georgia on December 10,1850 in responce by a Compromise of 1850 -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. -
Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington wasan 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 ad The Populist
Tom Watson was an American politician, attorney,newspaper editer, and writer for Georgia. -
Dred Scott Case
The Dred Scott Case was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the court held that African Americans, whether inslaved, or free, could not be American Citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court, and that th federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the U.S. -
Alonzo Herndon
Alonzo Franklin Herndon was a businessman and the founder and president of the Atlanta Family life insurance company. -
Election of 1860
The U.S. presidentiol elction of 1860 was the 19th quadrennial presidential elction. 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 Georga
The battle between ship and shore on the coast of confederate Georgia was a confederate defence strategy, in turn, evolved with the union blockade. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam, also known as The Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the south, fought on September 17, 1862, near sharpsburg, Maryland campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on union soil. -
Emancipation Prolomation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclomation on January 1, 1863, as the third year of bloody civil war. The proclomation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought jult 1-3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American CIvil War. -
Battle of Chickamauga
The Battle of Chickamauga, fought September 19-20, 1863, marked the end of a Union offence in southearstern Georgia called the Chickamauga Campaign. -
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Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
The Atlanta Campaign was a series of battles fought in the American Civil War throughout north Georgia and Atlantaduring the summer of 1864. William T. Sherman invaded from Chattanooga, Tennessee, beginning in May 1864, against Joseph E. Johnston. Johnston's army retreated toward Atlanta using successive flanking maneuvers by Sherman's group of armys. In July, Jefferson Davis, replaced Johnston with John Bell Hood, who challenged the Union with damaging attacks, starting Sherman's March to Sea. -
The Andersonville Prison Camp
The Andersonville Prison was a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil War. Most of it is still in southwestern Macon, adjacent to the east side of Andersonville. -
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Sherman's March to Sea
Sherman's March to the Sea is the name to the Savannah Campaign in the American Civil War, conducted from November 15, to December 21, 1864 by William Sherman of the Union Army. The campaign started with Sherman's troops leaving Atlanta, Georgia, on November 15 and ended up with the capture of Savannah on December 21. His forces destroyed military targets, industry, and civilian property and distrupted the Confederacy's economy and transportation networks. -
Thirteenth Amendment
The thirteenth amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. On December 18, 1865, Secretary of State, William H. Seward proclaimed its adoption. -
Ku Klux Klan Formed
The Ku Klux Klan is named for the three distinct past and present movements in the United States that have advocated extremists reactionary currents such as white supremacy. -
W.E.B. Du Bois
Willim Edward Burghardt "W.E.B." Du Bois was an american socialist, historian, civil rights activist, pan-africanist, author and editor. -
Fourteenth Ammendent
The Fourteenth Ammendment to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the reconstruction ammendment ddresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in responce to issues related to formr slaves following the American Civil War. -
Fifteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth Amemdment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on the citizen's race, color, or previous condition or survitude -
Carl Vinson
Carl Vinson was a United Sates Representative from Georgia. He was a democrat and the first person to serve more than 50 years in the U.S. House of Representatitves. He was known as "The Father of The Two-Ocean Navy". -
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 from 1941 to 1943. Elected to a fourth term in November 1946, de died before his inauguration. -
Benjamin Mays
Benjamin Elijah Mays was and American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African- American Civil Rights Movement -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark United states supreme court decision upholding the constitutionalityof state requiring racial segregation in public facilites under the doctrine of "sepreate but legal". -
1906 Atlanta Riot
During the Atlanta Race riot that occurred September 22-24, 1906, white mobs killed dozens of blacks, wounded scores of others and inflicted considerable property damage. Local newspaper reports of alleged assaults by black males on white females were the catalyst for the riot, but a number of underlying causes lay behind the outbreak of the mob violence. -
Ivan Allen Jr.
He served mayor from 1962-1970. He gratuated from a all boys high-school. He married Louise Richardson. Allen entered the service in 1942 as a lieutenant. After the war he served as govenor. Only because his father retired. -
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 from 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. Before the lynching of Frank two years later, the case became known throughout the nation. The degree of anti-semitism was enough for jews around the area to protest. -
Herman Talmadge
Herman Eugene talmadge, Sr., was a democratic politician from the state of Georgia. he served as the 70th governor of Georgia briefly in in 1947 and again from 1948 to 1955 -
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World War 1
World War 1, also known as the First World War, or the Great War, was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. -
Lestor Madoox
Lester Garfield Maddox, Sr., was an American polititian who was the 75th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971. -
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County Unit System
The county unit system was a voting system used by democrats in Georgia to determine a wineer in elections from 1917 until 1962 -
Rural Electrification
Georgia was helped perhaps as much as any state by the New Deal, which brought advances in rural electrification, education, health care, housing, and highway construction. The New Deal also had a particularly personal connection to Gerogia; Warm Springs was U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt's southern white house, where he met and worked with many different Georgians. -
Jimmy carter in Georgia
James Earl 'Jimmy' Carter, Jr. served as the 39th president of the U.S. from 1977 to 1981 -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American Baptist mimister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. -
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression was the deepest and longest-lasting ecinomic 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 Young, Jr. is an American politician, diplomat, activist, and pastor from Georgia. He served as Mayor of Atlanta. -
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Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a public work relief program that operted from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as the part of the New Deal -
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Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide in which approximately six million Jews were killed by Adolf Hitlers regime and its callaborators -
Agricultural Adjustment Act
The Agricutural 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 raised the value of crops. -
Social Security
In the beginning it wasused for retirement benefits and was called the Economics Security Act. The name was changed after Congress considered the bill. In 1939 there was a change in the law that also benefited survivers. -
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. -
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World War 2
World War 2, also known as the Second World War, was an global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, through related conflicts that began earlier. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor, the Hawaii Operation or Operation Al by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, and Operation Z duribng planning, was a suprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United states naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii on the mornei\ing of December 7, 1941. -
Atlanta Hawks
The Atlanta Hawks are a professional basketbal team based in Atllanta, Georgia. The Hawks compete in the National Basketball Association as a member team of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division. -
1946 Governor's Race
For a brief period of time in 1947, Georiga had three governors. Eugene Talmadge won election to a fourth term as Georgia's governor in 1946, but died before inauguaration. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Brown vs. 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. -
1956 State Flag
The Georgia state flag that was used from 1956 to 2001 fatured a large Confederate flag and was created by Southern Democrat John Sammons Bell, a World War 2 veteranand an attorney who was an outspoken, supporter of segregation. During its oficial usage as the state flag, some Georgia Residents found it offencive and objectional. -
Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee
The SNCC was one of the major organizations in the American Cilvil Rights Movement of the 1960's -
Sibley Commission
In 1960, governor Ernest Vandiver Jr., forced to decide between closinf public schools or agreeing with a federal order to desegregate them, convinced state representatative George Busbee to introduce legislation making the General Assembly Committee on schools. -
The Albany Movement
The Albany Movement was a desegregation alliance 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 as styled in a sound recording released after the event, was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in U.S. history -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the U.S. that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, gender, religion, or national origin -
Atlanta Falcons
The Atlants Falcons are a professional American Footbball team based in Atlanta Georgia. They are a member of the South Division of the National Football Conference in the NFL -
Atlanta Braves
The Atlanta Braves are an American professional baseball franchise based in Atlanta since 1966, after having originated and plyed for many decades in Boston and then having subsequently played in Milwaukee for a little more than a decade. -
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter
Hamilton E. Holmes was an American Orthopedic physician. He and Charlayne Hunter-Gualt were the first two African American students admitted to the University of Georgia. Holmes later died due to a heart failure -
1996 Olympic Games
The 1996 Summer Olympic Games was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Atlanta, Georgia.
