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Jan 1, 1000
Paleo Time Period
Paleo's timeperiod was 12,000 years ago. The Paleoindians moved over large areas with groups of 25-50 people.They used tools made of chipped stone and carved bone projectile points, scraping and engraving tools, and cutting tools also known as spokeshaves. -
Jan 1, 1000
Archaic Time Period
The Archaic timeperiod was in 8000 BC-1000 BC. They collected nuts, fruits, roots, seeds, berries, fish turtles, shellfish, and birds. They hunted white taileled deer, black bear, and turkey.Their houses were very small but provided shelter. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland Time Period
The Woodlands time period was 1000 BC-1000 AD. Trade items include shell, copper, rocks and minerals which are greenstone, chert, crystalline quarts, galena. and mica. Settlements were very small, the largest villages probably housed no more than 50 people. -
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Mississippian Time Period
Mississippian people grew their food in small gardens using tools like, stone axes, digging sticks, and fire. They farmed corn, beans, squash, sunflowers, goosefoot, sumpweed, and other plants. They lived in small villages and hamlets which had a few hundred residents. -
Jan 1, 1539
Hernando De Soto Time Period
Hernando De Soto was the first European to explore what is now the state of Georgia. He discovered part of Central America. He explored Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, and South and North Carolina. -
Georgia Founded Time Period
Georgia' history is integrally linked to the rest of the south and the rest of the nation in many ways. It is the largest state that is east of the Mississippi. It is the youngest and the most southern of the thirteen colonies. Its the most populated southern state. -
Charter of 1732 Time Period
England's King George signed a charter establishing the colony. It created it's governing board on April 21, 1732. -
Salzburgers Arrive Time Period
The Salzburgers are a group of German-speaking Protestant Colonist. They founded the town of Ebenezer which is now called Effingham County. They survived extremely hardships in both europe and Georgia to create a very unique community. -
Highland Scots Arrive Time Period
A band of Highland Scots, recruited from the vicinity of Iverness, Scotland, Hugh Mackay and George Dunbar, sailed from Iverness on the Prince of Wales. The men were trained Highland warriors, they were among the world's finest fighting soldiers and selected by Ogelthorpe for the purpose he had in mind. -
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John Reynolds Time Period
John Reynolds was an officer of the royal navy. His time of governor. His time as governor was marked by controversy and disappointment. -
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Henry Ellis Time Period
Henry Ellis was the second royal governor of Georgia. He replaced John Reynolds as governor. Under Henry's leadership, Georgia learned to govern themselves. -
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James Wright Time Period
James Wrght was the 3rd royal governor. He took Henry Ellis' place when he died of poor health. He focused on expanding Georgia during his time as governor. -
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American Revolution Time Period
During the American Revolution, there were tensions between the American Colonies and the British government. There was a battle on April 19th at Lexington and Concord Massachusettes. -
Elijah Clarke/ Kettle Cr. Time Period
Clarke joined the rebels and, as the militia captain, he recieved a wound fighting the Cherokees in 1776. He commanded militia against Creek raiders. Later on, Clarke received another wound in the Batlle of Alligatoer Bridge, Florida. Then on Feburary 14, 1779 as a lietenant colonel of miltia, Clarke led a charge in the rebel victory at kettle Creek, Georgia. -
Constitutional Convention Time Period
Georgia was one of the first states to use a meeting of delegates to create a constitution. Georgia's first constitutional convention met and produced the state's inaugural constitution, known as the Constituion of 1777, which was three months after the American colonies declared independence from Great Britain. -
University of Georgia Founded Time Period
UGA is one of the oldest, largest, and most comprehensive school institution in Georgia. It was the first University in America to be created by a state government. -
Austin Dabney Time Period
He became the only African American to be granted 50 acres of land by the state of Georgia. Dabney got his land in the recognation of his military service during the Battle at Kettle Creek. -
Georgia Ratifies Constituion Time Period
Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the constitution. Georgia's first constitution was writen in Savanna, our first capital, in 1777. -
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin Time period
During Eli Whitney's time in Georgia, he invented the Cotton Gin machine. This machine expedited the extraction of seeds from upland cotton, which makes the cotton profitable and contributing to it's expansion across the south. This lowered the region's commitment to slave labor and immediatly placed the country on the path to the Civil War. -
Yazoo Land Fraud Time Period
The Yazoo Land Fraud was one of the most significant events in the post- Revolutionary War history in Georgia. -
Capital Moved to Louisville Time Period
The building of the capital of Louisville was delayed by a lack of funds, the death of the contractor, and the rush to obtain and disburse the Creek and Cherokee lands. -
Missouri Compromise Time Period
Congress made an effort in order to defuse both the political and sectional fights which is known as The Missouri Compromise. Missouri requested to trigger these rivalries in the year 1819. They requested this so that their state would be able to allow slavery. During this compromise, the United States was divided into the slavery and freedom of 22 states. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush Time Period
This Gold Rush was the second significant gold rush in the United States. It overshadowed the preious rush in North Carolina. It started in 1828 in Dahlonega then soon spread through the North Georgia Mountains. -
Worcester V. Georgia Time Period
In the court case Worcester v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1832 that the Cherokee Indians constituted a nation holding distinct soveriegnty in the twentieth century however, it didn't protect the Cherokees from being removed from their ancesteral homeland in the Southeast. -
Henry McNeal Turner Time Period
Turner was one of the most influential African American leaders in the late ninteenth century. He was a pioneering church organizer and missionary for the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Georgia. He was also an active politician and Reconstruction-ERA state legislature from Macon. -
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Trail of Tears Time Period
As a part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up their lands that were east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this the "Trail of Tears" because of its devastating effects. -
Compromise of 1850 Time Period
This Compromise was apart of five bills that were passed by the United States Congress, this defused a four year political confrontation between slavery and free states. These states were regarding the status of some territories that were aquired during the Mexican-American War. -
Georgia Platform Time Period
This Platform is a statement that was executed by a Covention in Milledgeville, Georgia. This is also a response that is related to the Compromise of 1850. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act Time Period
The territories of Kansas and Nebraska were created by this act. This opened many new lands for settlers and also had an effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise. This effect was by allowing white males to settle in the territories to determine whether or not they would allow slavery. -
Booker T. Washington Time Period
He was born a slave on a farm in Virginia. He grew up to become one of the most influential African American intellectuals of the late 19th century. -
Dred Scott Case Time Period
The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, he was slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom -
Election of 1860 Time Period
This election was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. It served as the immediate boost for the outbreak of the Civil War. -
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Union Blockade of Georgia Time Period
The Union tried to prevent any goods, troops, and weapons from entering the Southern states. Which also means they tried to collapse the southern economy. -
Battle of Antietam Time Period
The Battle of Antietam was the first major battle in the American Civil War whcih took place on Union Soil. In American History, it was the bloodiest single-day battle. -
Emancipation Proclomation Time Period
The Emancipation Proclomation was issued by Abraham Lincoln. The Proclomation declared "That all persons held as slaves are, and hencefoward shall be free." within the rebellious states. -
Battle of Gettysburg Time Period
This Battle was being fought on July 1st-3rd 1863 in the area of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It was fought by the Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. -
Battle of Chickamauga Time Period
The Battle of Chickamauga was marked the ending of a Union offense in the southeast part of Tennessee and the northwest part of Georgia. It was the most significant Union beat down in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. -
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Andersonville Prison Camp Time Period
The Confederate prison was estabilished in Macon County. To provide relief for the large number of Union prisoners, they were concentraded in and around Richmond, Virginia. The new camp quickly became known as Andersonville. -
Thirteenth Amendment Time Period
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8th, 1864. -
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Sherman's Atlanta Campaign Time Period
Sherman's troop's engaged in several fierce battles with Confederate soldiers on the out parts of the city, this included the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain on June 27, in which the Union forces lost.. -
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Sherman's March to the Sea Time Period
After leaving the city of Atlanta, Sherman led his troops on a destructive campaign which concluded with the capture of the port city of Savannah on December 21 -
Freedmon's Bureau Time Period
This Bureau was established by Congress to help the former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War -
Klu Klux Klan Formed Time Period
The Klu Klux Klan's goal was to destroy Reconstruction by murdering blacks and some whites active either in republican politics or educating black children. -
Fourteenth Amendment Time Period
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution was adopted as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. The amendendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and it was proposed in the response to the issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. -
Fifteenth Amendment Time Period
This Amendment granted African Americans the right to vote. It was formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution on March 30th, 1870. It was passed by the Congress the year before. -
International Cotton Exposition Time Period
The International Cotton Exposition was held in Atlanta, Georgia. The city had fewer than 40,000 residents at this time. This exposition was a display of cotton plants located from all over the world. The residents from Atlanta were eager to host this because it promoted investment and it helped the city toward its goal of becoming an industrial center. -
Tom Watson and the Populists Time Period
Tom Watson was one of the more perplexing and controversal people among Georgia politicians. He was elected to the Georgia General Assembly, U.S. House of Representatives, and U.S. Senate where he only served for a short time. He was nominated by the Populists Party as it's Vice Presidential canidate and achieved in the national recognition for his egalitianian and aragranian agenda. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson Time Period
The states of the American South enforced a policy of individual accomadations for blacks and whites on buses and trains, and inhotels,theaters, and schools. The Supreme Court ruled in the Plessy v. Ferguson law case that seperates but also equals facilities on trains were constitutional. -
Alonza Herndon Time Period
Herndon's barbering buisness had expanded and in 1904 he owned three shops in Atlanta Georgia. His shop was advertised as the best and the biggest barbershop in the region. -
WEB Dubois Time Period
Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor.During the years 1905 to 1910, Du Bois rallied support within the polarized black intellectual community -
1906 Atlanta Riot Time Period
White mobs killed a bunch of blacks, wounded scores of others, and inflicted considerable property damage. Many news paper 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 mob violence. -
John and Lugenia Hope Time Period
Lugenia spent most of her career in Atlanta working for improvment of the black communities through social work, health compaigns , and better education . John was an important African American educator and race leader -
Leo Frank Case Time Period
The Leo Frank Case is one of the most notorus and highly publicized cases in the legal annals of Georgia. A jewish man in Atlanta was placed on trial and was convicted of raping and killing a 13 year old girl who worked for the National Pencil Company in which he managed. -
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World War 1 Time Period
World War one was sparked by the assassination of Francis Ferdinand in 1914. It ended with the Treaty of Versailles in 1918 -
County Unit System Time Period
Thu was a voting system used by the U.S. state of Georgia to determine a victor in state wide primary elections from 1917 until 1962. -
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Great Depression Time Period
It was the deepest and the longest economic down turn in the history of the Western industrialized world. It started after the stock market crashed in 1929 which sent Wall Street into a panic and it wiped out millions of investors. -
Eugene Talmadge Time Period
He was the 67th governor of Georgia from 1933 to 1937.He was elected for his 3rd term from 1941 to 1943. He was also elected for a 4th term but he passed away before his inauguration. -
Civilian Conservation Corps Time Period
This was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the U.S. for unemployed and unmarried men. This was also apart of the New Deal. -
Richard Russell Time Period
He served in the U.S. Senate from 1933 until he died in 1971. Richard was one of the Senate's most respected members. -
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Holocaust Time Period
The Holocaust was the mass murder of 6 million jews by the German Nazi regime during the Second World War. To the leader of the Nazi's, Adolf Hitler, jews were an inferior race, an alien threat to German racial purity and community -
Agricultural Adjustment Act Time Period.
This act encouraged those who were still farming to grow fewer crops. This meant there would be less produce on the market and crop prices would be raised which would benefit the farmers but not the consumers. -
Rural Electrification Time Period
The REA allowed the gov. to make low priced loans to non profit cooperatiives for the purpose of bringing electricity to much of rural America for the first time. -
Social Security Time Period
This act was made to provide for the General Welfare by establishing a system of federal old age benefits. -
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William B. Hartsfield Time Period
He was a man who became one of the greatestmayors of Atlanta. He served for six terms, which is longer than any other person in the city's history. -
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World War 2 Time Period
On July 7th 1937, the Marco Polo Bridge Incident led to a war between Japan and China. Then when Germany invaded Poland in 1939 it led Britian and France to declare war on Hitler's Nazi State in retaliation. -
Benjamin Mays Time Period
Benjamin Mays was an African American minister, educator, scholar, and social activist. He was also a great 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. -
Pearl Harbor Time Period
In 1941 the Japanese launched a suprise attack on the U.S. Naval Base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. They used bombers, torpedo bombers, and midget submarines to attack. -
1946 Governor's Race Time Period
Georgia had three governors. Eugene Talmadge won election to a fourth term as Georgia's governor in 1946, but died before his inauguration. When the General Assembly elected Talmadge's son Herman Talmadge as governor, the newly elected lieutenant governor, Melvin Thompson, claimed the office of governor, and the outgoing governor, Ellis Arnall, refused to leave office. -
Atlanta Hawks Time Period
The Atlanta Hawks are a professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Hawks compete in the NBA as a member team of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division. -
Herman Talmadge Time Period
Herman Talmadge 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. -
Brown v. Board of Education Timw Period
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Time Period
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist, who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968. -
1956 State Flag time Period
In 1956, Governor Marvin Griffin signed legislation to change the Georgia flag to one that included the Confederate battle emblem on two-thirds of the banner. It became a divisive symbol but remained Georgia’s official banner for 45 years after its adoption on February 13, 1956 -
Sibley Commission Time Period
The Sibley Commission was set up by Gov Vandiver in 1960 to gauge Georgia's attitudes towards desegregating the public school system. Vandiver accepted the Commissions' findings, which were a practical integration to avoid Federal Government intrusion, and keeping the public schools in Georgia opened. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Four black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina, demanded service at a Woolworth’s lunch counter. When the staff refused to serve them, they stayed until the store closed. In the following days and weeks this “sit-in” idea spread through the South. Several thousands of students participated in protest against this form of segregation. -
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter Time Period
Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes were the first African American students in the school's history. Hunter and Holmes arrived on the UGA campus on January 9, to register for classes. -
The Albany Movement Time Period
The Albany Movement began in the fall in 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. Also, it ended with more than 1,000 African Americans in Albany and surrounding rural counties going to jail. -
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ivan Allen Jr. Time Period
He served as mayor of Atlanta from 1962 to 1970. He is credit for leading the city through an era of significant physical and economic growth and with maintaining calm during the Civil Right Movement. -
March on Washington Time Period
The March on Washington was when more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally for Jobs and Freedom. -
Civil Rights Act Time Period
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in public places. It also banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. It is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. -
Carl Vinson Time Period
When Carl retired in 1965 he had served in the U.S. Congress longer than anyone in history. He also set the record for service as chair of standing committee. -
Atlanta Falcons Time Period
The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team out of Atlanta, Georgia. They are a member of the South Division of the NFC in the Proffesional Football League. -
Lester Maddox Time Period
Lester Maddox was brought to office in 1966 by widespread dissatisfaction with desegregation, he surprised many by serving as an able and unquestionably colorful chief executive -
Atlanta Braves Time Period
The Braves played their first game in the Atlanta Stadium before a soldout crowd of more than 50,000 fans. The Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. threw the ceremonial first ball. -
Maynard Jackson Elected Mayor Time Period
Maynard Jackson was the first African American to serve as the mayor of a major southern city. Jackson served eight years and then returned for a third term -
Jimmy Carter in Georgia Time Period
Jimmy Carter, the first Georgian elected president of the United States, held the office for one term, 1977-81. His previous public service included a stint in the U.S. Navy, two senate terms in the Georgia General Assembly, and one term as governor of Georgia -
Andrew Young Time Period
Andrew Young was elected the city's mayor in 1981. His election signaled the institutionalization of the revolution in black political power he had helped to create in Georgia -
1996 Olympic Games Time Period
Atlanta hosted the Centennial Summer Olympic Games, an event that was the largest undertaking in the city's history. The goal of civic leaders was to promote Atlanta's image as an international city ready to play an important role in global commerce.
