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Jan 1, 1000
Paleo
Paleo's made chipped stone, carved bone poljectile points, scrapping, and engraving tools. Some were found in Macon and a few other cities. Mostly try to stay and live around water. -
Jan 1, 1000
Archaic
The Archaic's gather in small groups called bands with 20 to 50 people in it. They caught/collected turtles, fish, shellfish, birds, and smaller mammals. They made spear points and other tools to help them survive and also hunt with. Archaic people lived in small houses that proved shelter for elements. They moved place to place according of sessional food and time of year. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland
Mostly were in small groups lived and moved for seasonal climate and food. Housed no more than 50 people in a square and rectangular houses. They also had a special diet plan where nuts and other will food were included in, also grew corn and other crops. -
Period: Jan 11, 1000 to
Mississippian
During the Mississippian period they ate simple food such as food from their garden (corn, beans, nuts, and fruit) by using simple tools like stone, ax, diggings sticks, and fire. They also collected fish, shellfish, and turtles from rivers, streams, and ponds. Usually used housed for shelter to get out of bad weather. They all spend most their out doors. The missipssippian's (mainly farmers) lived close to rivers for the water to help the soil and the crops. -
Mar 3, 1540
Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto is the first European to explore the interior of what now is Georgia. On March 3, 1540 he reached just inside the southern boarded of Georgia. He built a boat cross the Flint river and floated down the Savannah River. Also enterd GA the second time on JUly 15, 1540. -
Charter of 1732
The first 20 years of Georgia's history is referred to the trustee years. At this time the board of trustee were over the colony. King George of England signed a charter that established the colony and creating it's goverment board on April 21, 1732. -
Hightland Scots Arrivde
The Highland Scots arrived in Darien, Ga and settled in 1732.
A group of malcontents became very mad with the Trustees. They now wanted to purchase more land and slaves to help them get more wealthy. So the Trustees helped the other colonist but didnt not support ther malcontents because, they were wealthy enought to pay for their own travel to Georgia. -
Salzburgers Arrive
On March 12, 1734 a group of German people from Salzburgers arrived. They settled in a town in Georgia 25 miles from Savannah. Religous leaders and Charles Wesley arrived also in Georgia at this same time, -
Henry Ellis
Henry Ellis was an explorer, author, and a colonial governor of U.S. state of Georgia and Nova Scotia. He has also been called the ''Second founder of the state of Gerogia'' -
John Reynolds
John Reynolds,who was the captain in the British royal navy, served as Georgia's first royal governor from late 1754 to early 1757. He remained as governor for 4 years, -
James Wright
James Wright was the 3rd and last royal gov. of the state of Georigia.. He played a key role on revolution in Georgia long after it had flared violently in every other colony. -
American Revolution
The French and Indian War took place in North America. This war left Brittan in dept. So they decided they were gonna make the colonest pay more to cover there dept. The colonest were mad so group of people to form the Boston Tea Party and dump millions of dollars worth of British Tea into the ocean. This resulted in the colony of Massachusetts to endure the intolerable acts. -
Austin Dabney
Austin Dabney was a slave who became a privet eye for Georgia military and fought against the British during the Revolutionary War. Austin Dabney moved with his master, Richard Aycock, to Wilkes County, Georgia, in the late 1770s. to avoid military service himself, Aycock sent Dabney to join the Georgia militia as a substitute. Dabney is believed to have been the only black soldier to participate in the Battle of Kettle Creek, One of the most biggest wars in Georgia. -
Elijah Clarke
Clarke grew up on the frontiers of North and South Carolina, finally arriving in Georgia in 1773. In June 1781, Clarke led a Georgia force that helped force the British to evacuate Augusta. After the Revolutionary War, Elijah was rewarded with a plantation. -
University of Georgia
University of Georgia was the first collage to charter a state supported university. At the first meeting of the board of trustees, held in Augusta on February 13, 1786, Abraham Baldwin was selected president of the university. The university was actually established in 1801 when a committee of the board of trustees selected a land site. In 1931 the General Assembly of Georgia placed all state-supported institutions of higher education, including UGA, under the jurisdiction of a single board. -
Capital Moved to Louisville
The Georgia state commisson was authorized to a purchase of 1,000 acres for the new capital. The legislature also directed that the new capital site be called Louisville in honor of Louis XVI of France, in appreciation for French assistance during the Revolutionary War. -
Constitutional Convention
On October 1776, just three months after the American colonies declared independence from Great Britain, Georgia's first constitutional convention met and crated the Constitutional Convention. -
Georgia Founded
James Oglethorpe and Liyo colonest climed 40 feet up the bluff of the Savannah River on 1733 and founded what know is Georgia. -
Great Ratified Constitution
Georgia elected six delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. The convention, chaired by George Washington, had the authority to revise the Articles of Confederation. Georgia called a special convention in Augusta to consider the proposed charter. They voted to ratify the new U.S constitution. -
Eli Whitney and the cotton gin
Eli Whitney wanted to creat a faster way to get the seeds out of cotton. On March 14, 1794 the cotton gin was made. Despite its success, the gin made little money for Whitney due to patent-infringement issues. THIs also caused the increase if slavery . -
Yazoo Land Fraud
The Georgias Legislaters were bribed inn 1795 to sell most of the land now which is Mississippi. The state of Georgia ceded its claim to the region to the U.S. government in 1802. By 1814 the government had taken possession of the territory, and Congress awarded the claimants more than $4,000,000. The fraud was named for the Yazoo River, which runs through most of the region. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was a effert bt the Georgia state congrees to stop the fight against sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 to stop slavery. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free. -
Dahloega Gold Rush
The United States government made a branch mint at Dahloega in 1835; rgus produced $6 million in gold cans before the closing in 1861. After in 1985, a mule wagon deleverd 43 onces of Dahloega Gold to Atlanta to be used in the capital dome. This Gold rush brought trafgedy as well; it was one of the major reasons behind the removal of the Cherokee in 1838. -
Worcester v. Georgia
The Worcester v. Georgia was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that prohibited non-Native Americans from being present on Native American lands without a license from the state was unconstitutional. -
Henry McNeal Turner
Henry McNeal Turner was a minister, politician, and the first southern bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He was also a independent black denomination after the American Civil War. -
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Trail of tears
The Cherokee Nation divided between those who wanted to continue to resist the removal pressure and a "Treaty Party" that wanted to surrender and depart for the West. After Major Ridge
Hand-colored lithograph of Major Ridge, a Cherokee leader who helped establish the Cherokee system of government. The soldier, politician, and plantation owner is remembered for signing the Treaty of New Echota (1835), which ceded Cherokee lands to the U.S. government and authorized Cherokee removal.
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Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay told eveyone about a series of resolutions, in attempt to seek a compromise over the cpompromise of the north and south.Also as this compromise slave trade in Washington, D.C was established. -
Georgia Platform
The Georgia Platform was a statement said by a Georgia Convention in Milledgeville, Georgia on December 10, 1850 in concederation to the Compromise of 1850. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas Newbraska Act was passed by the United States congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in Kansas and Newbraska to decide for themself if they wanted slavery or not in their borders. -
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington was a educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Also in 1890 and 1975, Booker was the dominant leader in the African-American community. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott v. Sandford was a landmark decison by United States Supreme Court in in which the Court held that African Americans, whether enslaved or free. -
Alonzo Herndon
Alonzo Franklin Herndon was a businessman and the founder and president of the Atlanta Family Life Insurance Company -
Election of 1860
In Novemeber 1860 Lincon won the presidential nomination. -
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Union Blockade of Georgia
The Union Blockade was a big part of the Andaconda Plan which is a larger strategy.General Scott felt that the war could take a long time and that the best supplied armies would win. He wanted to keep foreign countries from shipping supplies to the Confederates. the army would split the South in two, taking control of the Mississippi River. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam also known as the Battle of Shapsburg fought on September 17, 1862 in the South. When this war was over at the sun rise both armies still heald there grounds. There were more than 4,000 deaths and more injured. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Prestident Lincon at this time issued the Emacipation Proclamation which meant "that all persons held as slaves shall be free" -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought in the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania by UNion adn Conferderation during the American Civil War. -
Battle of Chickamauga
This war marked the end of Union offensive southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia called the Chickamauga Campaign. -
Andersonville Prison Camp
The Andersonville National Historic Site, located near Andersonville, Georgia, preserves the former Camp Sumter, a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil War -
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Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
Sherman's Atlanta Campaign begain early May 1864. However, on September 1, Confederate forces under John Hood (1831-79) pulled out of Atlanta and the city, a symbol of Confederate pride and strength, was surrendered the next day. Sherman’s men continued to defend it through mid-November. -
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Sherman's March to the Sea
Sherman's March to the Sea is the name commonly given to the military Savannah Campaign in the American Civil War, Through Georgia from November 15 to December 21, 1864 by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army. -
Thirteenth Amendment
The Thirteen Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
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 -
Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK), or simply "the Klan", is the name of three distinct past and present movements in the United States that have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically expressed through terrorism aimed at groups or individuals whom they opposed. -
WEB DuBois
William Edward Burghardts was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor. -
Fourteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment states that citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. -
Fifteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." -
International Cotton Exposition
The International Cotton Exposition was a world fair held in Atlanta, Ga. It was located along the Western and Atlantic railroads tracks near the president-day King Plow in downtown Atlanta. -
Carl Vinson
Carl Vinson was a United States Representative from Georgia. HE was 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" -
Leo Frank Case
The Leo Frank case was one of the most highly publicized cases in Georgia. Leo Frank was Jewish man who was on trial for murdering and raping a 13 year old that worked for the company he managed. -
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William B. Hartsfield
William B. Hartsfield was a American Polititon. Hartsfield servesd as Georgia 49th and 50th Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. -
Richard Russell
Richard Russel was a American politician from Georgia. He briefly served as speaker of the Georgia house, and as Governor of Georgia (1931–33) before serving in the United States Senate for almost 40 years, from 1933 until his death from emphysema in Washington, D.C. in 1971. -
Tom Watson and The Populists
Tom Watson was known the voice of the Populist Party . Although in his later years, he was known for divisive and racist politician. Watson ran for president of the Populist candidate in 1904 and 1908 but never gained more than one percent of the national vote. -
1960 Atlanta Riot
The Atlanta Riot in 1906 was a massive Civil disturbance which started on September 22 till September 28 1906. The reason for this riot was because of the " racist massacre of nigroes". -
John and Lugenia Hope
Lugenia Burns married John Hope in 1897 and moved with him to Atlanta when he joined the faculty of the Atlanta Baptist College. John Hope was later appointed the institution's president in 1906. -
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Ivan Allen Jr.
Ivan Allen Jr. was an American businessman, He served two terms as Atlanta, Georgias 52nd mayor. -
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World War I
World War I also known as the First World War or the Great War. This was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. -
Lester Maddox
Lester Garfield Maddox, Sr., was an American politician, restruant owner and batist who was the 75th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from September 30, 1915 till June 25, 2003. -
County Unit System
The County Unit System was declared unconstitutional in 1963. The court founded 'one man, one 'vote principle. The issued a statewide preferential primary. -
Jimmy Carter in Georgia
James Earl(also known as Jimmy) Carter, Jr. is an American politician and author who served as the 39th President of the United States. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Carter Center -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American Baptist minister and alot of other things but most known for his African-American Civil Rights Movement. -
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The Great Depressiopn
The Great Depression (1929-39) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. 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 -
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. The Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent many people into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
Andrew Young
Andrew Jackson Young was a 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 -
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Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was when millions of Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler. -
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corpsn also known as the CCC. Was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 for citizens of the United States that were unemployed. This also helped unmarried men tp get a relief of their families as part of the New Deal. -
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 fouth term begain. -
Agricultural Adjustment Act
The Agricultural Adjustment Act also known as the AAA was a United States federal law of the New Deal which lowerd the quality of agricultural production by paying farmers not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock. -
Rural Electrification
The Rural Electrification was created to bring electrical power to more rural areas. -
Social Security
The Social Security Act was passes in 1935. This Act was drafted during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term by the President's Committee on Economic Security, under Frances Perkins, and passed by Congress as part of the New Deal. -
Maynard Jackson Elected Mayor
Maynard Jackson was the first African American to serve as mayor of a major southern city. He was elected mayor of Atlanta in 1973, -
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World War II
World War II, also known as the second world war, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The war was started by related conflicts that were created earlier. -
Benjimin Mays
Benjimin Mays was a educator and a blackminister along with other things. Mays served as the president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia from 1940 to 1967. -
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter
Hamilton Holmes is best known for the stop of segergation of Georgia's universities. One of the first two African American students admitted to UGA in Athens in 1961, Holmes was also the first black student admitted to the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta two years later. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise 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 morning of December 7, 1941. -
Atlanta Hawks
The ATlanta Hawks is a professional basketball team based in Atlanta Ga. The Hawks are a part of the Eastern Conference Southeast Division. -
1946 Governor's Race
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 -
Herman Talmadge
Herman Talmadge was a Democratic American politician who seved as Georgias 70tyh governor. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Sibley Commisson
The Sibley Commisson was formed when Geogias govenor Ernest Vandiver, Jr. was faced with a decision to either close public schools or comply with a federal order to desegregate them. They got to choice for the countinuing of massive resistance at ther ecpense of the school system or amending state law to allow intergration while keeping segregation largley maintained. On January 1961, Governor Vandiver introduced a bill that accepted the Sibley Commission's recommendations for desegregation. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was lead by young people who had came together as leaders to protest the movement for four blacak collages. -
The Albany Movement
The Albany Movement was a stop of segergation allience 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). -
The Albany Movment
The Albany Movment a desegregation alliance formed in Albany, Georgia, on November 17, 1961, by local citizens, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). -
March on Washington
The March on Washington was one of the biggest polititon rallies. The march was about freedom and job is was styled in a sound recording released after the event -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act is a landmark of the legislative of civil rights in tht e US it outlawed that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Atlanta Falcons
The Atlanta Falcons is a Professional American Football team based in Atlanta Ga. -
Atlanta Braves
The Atlanta Braves is a professional baseball team, after having originated and played for many decades in Boston and then having subsequently played in Milwaukee for a little more than a decade
