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Jan 1, 1000
Paleo Period
based on the article indians had to live in basic camps for varying lenths of time. They use stone tools. The people had to stay on the move, because of eatting there food supplies fast. -
Jan 1, 1000
Archaic Period
According to the author Archaic people hunted white-tailed deers, black bears, turkey, and other large animals. The middle life ages was different in there climates, the weather change. The lates age period traveled father than the others. They also built better, and stronger houses. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland Period
As I can see the woodland early period became sturdier with the substitution of sand and grit temper for the vegetable fiber. The middle age began to grow more than seed plants. The latest age grew corn in Georgia. -
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mississippian
The indians made permanet settlements. They mad estatues and jewelry. They lived off farming for food. They traded tribes and villages. They had mounds and temples for religions. -
Feb 12, 1540
Georgia Founded
King George ll gave James Oglethrophe a charter to make a new colony. There were two main purposes. One was toserve asa were debtors in prison could sart new. The other was to serve as abarrier against Spainish expansion from Flordia. -
Nov 1, 1540
Hernando de soto
Hernando De Soto explored Georgia in scearch of gold. Soldiers killed thousand of natives during battles. Thousands of natives died from diseases brought by explories. They explored countries like Spain, France, and England. The journey kept on the expedition helped understand native tribes. -
Mississippian
They grew much of their food in small gardens using simple tools like stone axes, digging sticks, and fire. Mississippian people spent much of their lives outdoors. Mississippian people, who were mainly farmers, often lived close to rivers,
Some of the most impressive achievements of Mississippian people are the finely crafted objects made of stone, marine shell, pottery. -
Highland Scots Arrive
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Salzburgers arrive
The Salzburgers were a group of German Speaking Protestant colonist. They founded the town of Ebenzer. King George invited them into Georgia. -
Charter of 1732
The Charter of 1732 was granted on April 21, 1732. James Oglethorpe believed that it was the best way for the worthy poor to get a new life wa start a new colony. King George granted the charter. It also signed it. -
Elijah Clarke/ Kettle Cr.
A rebel militia group led by colonel Elijah Clarke (after whom Clarke country is named ) defeated a force of more than 800 british troops at the battle of Kettle Creek, about eight miles from Washington, Georgia. The battle of Kettle Creek was minor when compared to those fought in other parts of the country. It was, however, important to Georgia. The militia was able to take body needed weapons and horses from the spirits of the Georgia militia were lifted by their victory. -
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John Reynolds
John reynolds was the first royal governor of georgia. The article states that reynolds served from 1754 to 1757. His major accomplishment were creating a court system to settle disputes. His major error was trying to governor Georgia alone. -
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Henry Ellis
Henry Ellis was Georgia second royal governor. He was very successful and well-liked. One of his major accomplishments was that he showed major econmic growth. he made peaceful negations with creek indians -
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James Wright
James Wright was the third royal governor of Georgia. he served from 1760 to 1782. He enforced the Stamp Act. He purchased ll plantations whichwas more than 500 slaves. -
Austin Dabney
Austin Dabney was a slave who fought against the British during the Revolutionary War. The only African American in the state of Georgia in recognition of his bravery during the Revolution and one of the few to receive a federal military pension.Austin Dabney moved with his master, Richard Aycock, to Wilkes County, Georgia, in the late 1770s. -
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American Revolution
The american Revolution was the war for independence . On July 4, 1776, United States gained independence from Great Britain. Great Britian and the United states signed a Peace treaty . This ended the war. -
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Yazoo land fraud
The Yazoo land fraud was one of the most significant events in the post-Revolutionary War (1775-83) history of Georgia.They would by cheap land and sale it a high price. It was illegal to sale land at the time. They persuades the legislatures to let them do it. -
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Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met between May and September of 1787 to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.1786 Americans recognized that the Articles of Confederation.Congress had to depend on financial contributions from the states -
Georgia Ratifies Constitution
Georgia elected six agents to the Constitutional Convection in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. Abraham Baldwin and William Few—signed the final document. George Washington chaired the authority to revise the Articles of Confederation.Instead, after four months and grudging compromise, the 55 agents produced an entire new system of governing, with three independent branches of government. The small states feared the larger ones, and many people what was missing: a Bill of Rights. -
Eli Whiteney and the cotton gin
Eli Whiteney,a Massachusetts native, only spent a few months living in Georgia, but during that time, in 1793, he invented the cotton gin. Tghe cotton gin help produce more slaves. The gin also helped seperate cotton from its seed. -
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Capital moved to Louisville
Louisville, the county seat of Jefferson County, also served as Georgia's third capital from 1796 until 1807.The legislature briefly considered making Louisville the home of the University of Georgia but decided to build the Jefferson, or Louisville, Academy there instead.Louisville served as the state capital for ten years -
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Capital moved to Lousville
Organizers envisioned Louisville as a trade center.Georgia's Revolutionary War debt and threat of a large-scale conflict with the Creek Nation. Civil War (1861-65) put Louisville in the path of Union general William T. Sherman's March to the Sea in late 1864. The legislature briefly considered making Louisville the home of the University of Georgia. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was a federal statute in the United States that regulated slavery in the country's western territories.The compromise, devised by Henry Clay, was agreed to by the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress and passed as a law in 1820. They reached a boiling point after Missouri’s 1819 request for admission to the Union as a slave state -
DahlonegaGold Rush
From the beginning of the gold rush, trade in the gold region suffered from a limit.When the mint went into operation many saw it as a national affirmation of Georgia's efforts over the preceding decade.Congress soon authorized the establishment of a federal Branch Mint at Dahlonega. -
Henry McNeal Turner
African American leaders in late-nineteenth-century Georgia, Henry McNeal Turner was a pioneering church organizer.Against great odds, Turner managed to receive an education.. About a year earlier, Turner had been converted during a Methodist revival and decided he would one day become a preacher. -
Worscester V. Georgia
In the 1820s and 1830s Georgia conducted a relentless campaign to remove the Cherokees. The state annexed the Cherokee lands; abolished their government, courts, and laws; and established a process for seizing Cherokee land and distributing it to the state's white citizens. . In 1830 representatives from Georgia and the other southern states pushed through Congress the Indian Removal Act. -
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Trail of tears
The trail of tears happen because whites did not like the Native Americans. Some Cherokees, wary of white encroachment, moved west on their own and settled in other areas of the country.The white had to force some of the Native out of there area. The Natives had to walk all the way to Oklahoma, during the cold weathers. -
the compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery. Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise. Clay’s purpose was to maintain a balance between free and slave states.The compromise, however, contained the seeds of the furture. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 may have been the single most significant event leading to the Civil War. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The slave states moved in so they can have more slaves to take over. The free states moved in so they can take over. -
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Tom Watson ad The Populists
Although Watson quickly became one of the foremost trial lawyers in Georgia, he was drawn to local politics.Watson did not remain in the legislature for long, however; he chose to resign his seat before the end of the session. -
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Tom Watson and the Populists
Thomson native Tom Watson was a controversail nation leader of the Populist party. Even though he became wealthy, Watson was concerned about Georgia's poor and stuggled farmers.He did gain a place in congressional history by introducing the rural free delivery bill, which required the U.S. postmaster general to find a way to deliver mail to the rural homes free of charge.Watson ran for Congress again in 1894and was again defeated. -
Alonzo Herndon
In 1878 Herndon left Social Circle on foot.Herndon's barbering business expanded, he owned 3 barbers shops in Atlanta.As his personal fortune grew, Herndon entered the field of insurance. He hiried black college gradurates.Herndon's wealth and business position brought with it a great deal of social responsiblities. -
Georgia Platform
The Georgia Platform established Georgia's conditional acceptance of the Compromise of 1850 proclamation called the Georgia Platform in a special. The November elections for the special convention to be held in December 1850 demonstrated state. The platform established Georgia's conditional acceptance of the Compromise of 1850. -
Dred Scott Case
In March 1857, in one of the most controversial events preceding the American Civil War (1861-65), the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford. He was a slve that lived with his owner in a free state before moving from a slave state. -
Eection of 1860
When the democrats met in charleston South Carlina for their national convention in 1860, there was a fant over the party platform. Abraham lincoln received 1.9 million votes. Lincoln republican platform was not just against slaverly although the party said it would not try to end slavery in the slave states. -
Union Blockade of Georgia
The battle between ship and shore on the coast of Confederate Georgia.U.S. president Abraham Lincoln's call at the start of the war for a naval blockade of the entire Southern coastline. Anderson's remarkable feat also signaled to the Union. General Lee's decision to consolidate forces in 1862 began with the withdrawal of Confederate troops -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation a document ultiomately affecting 4 million slaves in the united states. Lincoln started that unless the south surrenderd by January 1,1863 all slaves in the united states or district in rebellion against the united states. -
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Battle of Gettysburg
This was the turning point in the civil war. Union victory ended General Robert E. Lee second invasion of the north. Union Victory at the battle of Gettysburg resulted in Lee's retreat to Virgina and ended the hopes of the confederal for victory. It was the wars bloodiest battle with 51,000 casualties. -
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Battle of Chickamooga
Union forces moved against the major confederate railroad center in Chattanooga,Tenn -
Andersonville Prison Camp
Andersonville held the largest prison population in the entire Confederacy.During the beginning of 1864, the men in command of the Confederacy saw a need for another prison to house their prisoners of war. Prisoners in the camp deteriorated rapidly as the number of captives increased. Diseases went there the camp very fast and a lot of people were killed from the sickness. They ran out of food fast and a lot of people were skeletens. -
Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
Sherman’s Atlanta campaign began in early May 1864, and in the first few months his troops engaged in several fierce battles.After leaving Atlanta, Sherman and some 60,000 of his soldiers headed toward Savannah, Georgia. John hood as pulled out of Atlanta a symbol of Confederate pride and strength, Sherman and the troops still defend until the mid-Novembers.Before he set off on his famous March to the Sea on November 15, Sherman ordered that Atlanta’s military resources. -
Sherman's March to the Sea
Afer Sherman left Atlanta he quickly moved through the state heading for savannah buring everthing everything in a path sixty miles wide. On his way from Atlanta to Savannah, Sherman destory all military targets and economic system (farms, homes, towns railroad, bridges, roads) that surported the confederate military. -
Freedman's Bureau
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands provided assistance to tens of thousands of former slaves. Freed some slaves. Opened some black schools. -
Thirteenth Amendment
The House Joint Resolution proposing the 13th amendment to the Constitution, January 31, 1865; Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress, 1789-1999; General Records of the United States Government; Record Group 11; National Archives.In 1863 President Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring “all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and foreve -
Ku Klux Klan Formed
Founded in 1866, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s . Its members waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed at white and black Republican leaders. -
Fourteenth Amendment
All persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States.Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed.No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President -
Fifteenth Amendment
In 1867, following the American Civil War (1861-65), the Republican-dominated U.S. Congress passed the First Reconstruction Act, over President Andrew Johnson’s veto. “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” -
John and Lugenia Hope
Lugenis noticing social decay in Atlanta's black neighborhoods. John Hope was an African American educator and race leader of twentieth century. Hope embraced several civil rights organizations, including W. E. B. Du Bois's. Hope the Neighborhood Union carried out health education -
International Cotton Exposition
Atlanta held its first exposition, named the International Cotton Exposition, in Oglethorpe park in 1881.The first exposition "international" was the display of cotton plants from around the world. On opening day, September 18, military bands played, followed by speeches from political. It helped spend cotton all over the world. Cotton was a hit back then and still is. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
In 1892, Homer Plessy bought a train ticket from New Orleans to Convington, Louisiana.Plessy staged the incident to test the constitutionality of the 1890 law. Plessy was soon tested by a case originating in Augusta. The case reached the U.S. supreme court in december 1899. -
Booker T. Washington
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WEB Dubois
Significant figure: for his pursuit of social justice, for his literary imagination, and for his pioneering scholarly research.W.E.B. DuBois challenged the oppressive dimensions of the society in which he lived.W.E.B. Du Bois rose to national prominence when he very publicly opposed Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Compromise," an agreement that asserted that education for blacks was more important to them than social advantages like higher education or political. office. -
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1906 Atlanta Riot
The candidates for the 1906 governor's race played to white fears of a black upper class. The emergence during this time of a black elite in Atlanta also contributed to racial tensions in the city. City leaders, including Mayor James G. Woodward, sought to calm the increasingly indignant crowds but failed to do so. On Monday, September 24, a group of African Americans held a meeting in Brownsville, a community located about two miles south of downtown Atlanta and home to the historically black. -
Leo frank Case
The Leo Frank case is one of the most notorious and highly publicized cases in the legal annals of Georgia. On April 26, 1913, he was charged with murder of Mary Phagan, a 14-year-old emploee. Although there were little evidence, Frank was convicted and sentences to death.The KKK took Leo from prision an hung him to death. -
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World War 1
Lusitania on May 7, 1915, caused little trouble were quick to call for America's entry into the war.Loyalty pledges and flag-waving aside, President Wilson declared the Dragt Act to remedy the problem.There were alot of people killed by dieases. -
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County Unit System
The county unit system was established in 1917 when the Georgia legislature, overwhelmingly dominated by the Democratic Party, passed the Neill Primary Act. At that time, the Democratic party was the only active political party in the state. Those who opposed the county unit system pointed out that people were elected to office without a majority of the states's popular vote. -
University of Georgia Founded
The University of Georgia (UGA) is the oldest, largest, and most comprehensive educational institution in Georgia, and is moving to the forefront among public universities in the region and nation. In February 1784, just after the close of the Revolutionary War. -
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Great Depression
Much of the nation was enjoying a manufacturing and production boom in the 1920s. Alot of people lost there jobs, banks closed, and it was hard for most to eat.The depression's immediate impact on Georgia was much like that throughout the nation as a whole. President Roosevelt, who became a visitor to Warm Springs for polio treatment beginning in the mid-1920s, understood the struggle. -
Civilian Convervation Corps
The CCC carried out projects of lasting value to all Georgians.CCC also worked on numerous other projects around the state.They built state parks and etc. -
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Jimmy Carter in Georgia
Jimmy Carter, the only Georgian elected president of the United States, held the office for one term.During his years of public service at the local, state, and federal levels, Carter's policies contained a unique blend of liberal social values and fiscal conservatism.. He also championed equal rights for all Americans, especially women and minorities, and basic human rights for all people. -
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1996 Olympic Games
The goal of civic leaders was to promote Atlanta's image as an international city ready to play an important role in global commerce.In 1987 an Atlanta former football player at the University of Georgia, Billy Payne, conceived the idea of hosting the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. Atlanta competed against five other cities for the right to host the 1996 Olympics: Athens, Greece; Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Manchester, England; Melbourne, Australia; and Toronto, Canada. -
Battle of Antietam
It was the bloodiest war in one day(23,000)people were killed that day. The battle of Antietam was the army of northern Virginia first invasion intothe north. The union victory at the battle of Antietam gave Abraham the opportunity to issue the emancipation prolamation. -
Eugene Talmadge
He finally won state elective office by defeating Commissioner of Agriculture J. J. Brown in 1926.His critics rein in the freewheeling and outspoken Talmadge.Talmadge proved to be a strong governor.Arnall had a productive and progressive governorship. -
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Within days of his inauguration in 1933, President Roosevelt called Congress.
