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Jan 1, 1000
Paleo
The period marks the first colonization of the New World by Home Sapiens. Research says these early people came to the Americas from Asia. Scientist believe that the Paleo Indians were following large animals such as mastodons , mammoths , camels and bison. No discovery has ever made of earlier ancestors. -
Jan 1, 1000
Archaic
This was a time of changing climatic conditions. Early Archaic people were hunters and gatherers who lived in small groups of twenty or so people. They hunted black bear , turkey and other large game animals and collected nuts , roots , fruits , seeds and berries. They also caught turtles , shellfish , birds , and smaller mammals. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland
This period witnessed the developement of many trends that began during the preceding late Arcahic period. These trends included increases in sedintarness and social startification of ritual and ceremony , and an intensification of horiticulture. The period is divided into early , middle , and late subperiods. -
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Nississipian
Mississippian people were horticulturalists. They grew most of their food in small gardens. They grew corn , beans , squash , sunflower , goosefoot , and sumpfeed. They also ate wild plants and animals. Mississippian people spent most of their lives outdoors. -
Nov 1, 1540
Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto was the first European to explore the interior of Ga. He was from Spain. -
Charter of 1732
The first twenty years of Georgia history are referred to as Trustee Georgia because during that time a Board of Trustees governed the colony. England's King George signed a charter establishing the colony and creating its governing board -
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 they were expelled from their home in the Catholic principality of Salzburg. -
Highland Scots Arrive
The region became culturally distinguishable from the Lowlands from the later Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland Scots replaced Scottish Gaelic throughout most of the Lowlands. The term is also used for the area north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault. -
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Henry Ellis
Henry Ellis if the second royal governor of Georgia. He has been called Georgia's second founder. -
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Johm Reynolds
Reynolds was elected attorney general in November 1926, and won re-election in 1928 and 1930.His son also sevrved as the governor -
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John Reynolds
John Reynolds, a captain in the British royal navy, served as Georgia's first royal governor. He served three years. -
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American Revolution
The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783. The Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain, and founded the United States of America. -
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Henry Ellis
Henry Ellis, the second royal governor of Georgia, has been called "Georgia's second founder." Under the leadership of Ellis Georgians learned how to govern themselves, and they have been doing so ever since. -
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James Wright
James Wright was the third and last royal governor of Georgia, serving from 1760 to 1782.Wright was a popular and able administrator and servant of the crown. -
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James Wright
James Wright was the third and last royal governor of Georgia. He played a key role in retarding the flame of revolution in Georgia. -
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American Revolution
The American Revolution was a political upheaval.It took place when the colonist in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monoarchy and aristocracy , overthrew the authority of Great Britain , and founded the United States of America. -
Austin Dabney
Austin Dabney was a slave who became a private in the Georgia militia and fought against the British during the Revolutionary War.He was the first man to be in the army. -
Elijah Clarke / Kettle Creek
Elijah Clarke led the bettle of Kettle Creek. This battle took place on February 14, 1799 and was a victory for Clarke. -
University of Georgia Founded
The University of Georgia (UGA) is the oldest, largest, and most comprehensive educational institution in Georgia. Many people moved to UGA to attend this college -
Capital Moved to Lousville
After the British left, the capital was moved to Augusta, then Louisville while a new city was being built on the Oconee River. Some people were upset with decision so the capital was moved to Atlanta. -
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Constitutional Convection
The Constitutional Convection was a conference created to create a new government rather than fix the existing one. The result of the Convention was the creation of the United States Constitution. -
Georgia ratifies Constitution
Georgia called a special convention in Augusta to consider the proposed charter. The delegates voted unanimously to ratify the new U.S. Constitution. -
Georgia Founded
james Oglethrope concieved of and implemented his plan to establish the colony of Georgia. He spent most of his next decade in Georgia. -
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin.This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the South. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
The Yazoo land fraud was one of the most significant events in the post history of Georgia.Georgia was too weak after the Revolution to defend its vast western land claims known as the Yazoo Land Fraud. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free. -
Dahlogena Gold Rush
The Georgia Gold Rush was the second significant gold rush near Dahlonega in the United States.It overshadowed the previous rush in North Carolina. -
Worcester vs. Georgia
Georgia conducted a relentless campaign to remove the Cherokees, who held territory within the borders of Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee at the time.Cherokees established a constitutional government. -
Henry McNeal Turner
Henry Turner was an African American pioneer church organizer. Turner also was an active politician and Reconstruction-era statelegislator from Macon. -
Kansas - Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois. -
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Trail of Tears
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 journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress . This defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War. -
Ga. Platform
The Georgia Platform was a statement executed by a Georgia Convention in Milledgeville, Georgia.The act was instrumental in averting a national crisis. -
Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community. -
Tom Watson and the Populists
Tom Watson was nominated by the Populist Party as vice presendential candidate in 1896, he achevied recongnition forhis egalitarian, agrarian agenda. Watson was a praticing lawyer, publisher, and historian. -
Dred scott Case
Dred Scott v. Sandford was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans. It was about whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court. -
Alonzo Herndon
Alonzo Franklin Herndon was a businessman and the founder and president of the Atlanta Family Life Insurance Company. -
Election of 1860
The United States presidential election of 1860 was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. It served as the immediate impetus for the out break of the American Civil War. -
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Union Blockade of Ga.
the blockade was proclaimed by President Abraham Lincoln. It required the monitoring of 3,500 miles of Atlantic and Gulf coastline, including 12 major ports, notably New Orleans and Mobile. -
Battle of Atietam
The Battle of Antietam was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil. It is the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with a combined tally of dead, wounded, and missing at 22,717. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. It declared that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states are and henceforward shall be free. -
Battle Of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg lasted 3 days. This was one of the most important engagement of the American Civil War. -
Battle of Chickamauga
The Battle of Chickamauga was the biggest battle ever fought in Georgia. This Battle was between the Union and Confederate once again. -
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Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
The "Atlanta campaign" is the name given by historians to the military operations that took place in north Georgia during the Civil War. Sherman was leading the Union. -
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Andersonville Prison Camp
The camp held the largest prison population of its time, with numbers that would have made it the fifth-largest city in the Confederacy. It was very crowded and most peolple died from starvation or health issues. -
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.This march was conducted through Georgia by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army. -
Freedman's Bureau
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. -
13th Amandment
The 13 amendment officiaally ended the institution of slavery.The amendment states: "Neither slavery nor involutary servitude, except as a punishment of a crime whereof the party should have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." -
Klu Klux Klan
The Klu Klan were white citizens in the south that resisted the Republican Party's Reconstruction-era policies aimed at estabishing political and economic equality for blacks. -
W.E.B DuBois
Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor. -
14th Amendment
The 14th amendment granted all citizens to all persons born or naturalized in the United States. This included former slaves recently freed. -
15th Amendment
The 15th amendmentgranted African American men the right to vote. -
International Cotton Exposition
Atlanta's first exposition known as International Cotton Exposition was the display of cotton plants around the world. -
Carl Vinson
Carl Vinson was a United States Representative from Georgia. He was a Democrat and served for more than 50 years in the United States House of Representatives. -
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. -
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William B. Hartsfield
William Berry Hartsfield, Sr., was an American politician who served as the 49th and 51st Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. -
Benjamin Mays
Benjamin Elijah Mays was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. -
Plessey vs. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson 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 russell
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 of Georgia. -
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. He was later appointed the institution's president in 1906. -
1906 Atlanta Riot
The Atlanta race riot was a mass civil distrurbance in Atlanta. It was characterizd at the time by Le Petit Journal and other media outlets as a "racial massacre of negroes." -
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Ivan Allen Jr.
Ivan Allen, Jr., was an American businessman who served two terms as the 52nd Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, during the turbulent civil rights era of the 1960s. -
Leo Frank Case
The Leo Frank case was a highly publicized cases in the legal annals in Georgia. Which a Jewish man in Atlanta was convicted ifraping and murdering a 13 year old girl who worked for the National Pencil Company that 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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World War 1
World War I was a global war centred in Europe. This war pitted Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire known as the Central Powers against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy and Japan. In 1917 is when the U.S. decided to join. -
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. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968 before he could to see his big dream of black of whites coming together. -
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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. n 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 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. -
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Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews. -
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a public work relief program that operated in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal. -
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. -
Rural Electrification
Rural electrification is the process of bringing electrical power to rural and remote areas. -
Social Security
The United States Social Security Administration is an independent agency of the United States federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits. Founded by Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
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World War 2
The devastation of the Great War had greatly destabilized Europe, and in many respects World War II grew out of issues left unresolved by that earlier conflict. -
Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at PMore than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded.earl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. -
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 Gorvernor'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. -
Brown v. 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. -
1956 State Flag
The Georgia state flag that was used from 1956 to 2001 featured a prominent Confederate battle flag. During its official usage as the state flag, some Georgia residents found it offensive and objectionable. -
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Comitee
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was one of the most important organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. -
Sibley Commission
The Sibley Commission, the committee was charged with gathering state residents' sentiments regarding desegregation and reporting back to the governor. -
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter
Hamilton E. Holmes was an American orthopedic physician. He and Charlayne Hunter-Gault were the first two African-American students admitted to the University of Georgia. -
The Albany Movement
The Albany Movement was a desegregation coalition formed in Albany, Georgia. , the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People formed this movement. -
March on Washington
The March on Washinton was held in Washington, D.C. where 200,000 americans attended for jobs and freedom for African Americans. This is where Martin Luther KIng Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act 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. -
Atlanta Braves
The Atlanta Braves are an American professional baseball franchise based in Atlanta since 1966, after having originated and played for many decades in Boston. -
1996 Olympic Games
The Olympic Games of 1996 was held in Atlanta. It had an enormous economic impact on Georgia after six years of the Games being in Atlanta. there wass 5.14 billion dolllars made and the the goal was to promote Atlanta's image as an international city ready to play an important role in global commerce. -
Lester Maddox
Lester Garfield Maddox was an American politician who was the 75th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971. -
Maynard Jackson Elected Mayor
Maynard Jackson was an American lawyer and politician, who was the first African American mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, serving three terms. -
Jimmy Carter in Georgia
Jimmy Carter served two senate terms in Georgia and one term as governor of Georgia.
