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Jan 1, 1000
Paleo
Paleo linkThey migrated from Aisa by using Bering Strait landbridge.They hunted large game animal. The animal were mammoth,bison,ground sloth, and saber tooth tiger. -
Jan 1, 1000
Archaic
Archaic linkThey lived in 8000b.c. to 1000b.c.They livied in rock shelters and pitt houses. They were the first to develope the bow and arrow. they hunted deer and bear. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland
WoodlandThey were the first group to devolp farming. They created the Kobmoki monds near Blackly, Georgia. They were also the first to organize civilization. -
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Mississippian
Mississippian They had the first true civilation. They formed a government.They had the most advanced pottery. They ate corn, bear, and squash. -
Nov 1, 1540
De Soto
de sotoIn 1540 De soto and his group entered the southwestern part of Georgia. He was looking for gold. he killed thousands of indains. -
Charter of 1732
The charter of 1732 was what had to be signed to make Georgia. The king had to sign it for James Olgethorpe. this let Olgthorpe know he had permission to start buliding Georgia. -
Georgia Founded
Georgia FoundedJames Oglethorpe was givin permission to make a colony by King George II. It was made for the people in dept so the could start over with there life. It was between Flordia and South Carolina. -
Salzburgers
salzbugersSalzbugers arived in March,1734. they were invited to Georgia to escape from the Catholics. the Catholics kicked the Salzbugers from Alstralia. -
Highland Scots
Highland scottsThe Highland Scots were strong , brave ,warriors, and loved to fight. They were not afriad of the Spanish. Olgethorpe recruited them to defened the colony.They made a small town named Darrin -
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John Reynolds
John ReyondsReynolds severed as Georgia's first governor. He accomplished bicameral goverment. He made a big mistakes and kick legislative branch out. So that left him running things. -
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Henry Ellis
Henry Ellis
He was the second governor. He had some major accoplishments. They were major economic growth, major population growth. He was nice to the creek indans. He had to leave office for health reasons. -
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James Wright
James Wright
James Wright was the third governor. He came to Georgia in 1760. He never doughted his duties to enforce the 1765 Stamp Act. -
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Yazoo land fraud
Yahzoo land fruadYazoo land was when the leglative was brided large land compines to sell them indian land. the legislators who participated was voted out of office. -
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American Revolution
American RevolutionThe American Revolution had five things leading up to it. there was the Freanch and Indain war, Proclamation of 1753, Stamp Acts, Intolerable Acts. The last thing was the Declation of Independance. -
Elijah Clark / Kettle Creek
Elijah Clarke / Kettle CreekEligah Clark lead the pariots to the battle of Kettle Creek. They Defeted 600 Britsh troops. this was a small battle compared tto the others battles fought.they won and got horse and weapons. -
Austin Dabney
Austin DabbneyHe followed Elijah Clark to Kettle Creek. He was free born Mulatto. He was half whilte and half black. He was the first mixed man to own land. -
University of Georiga
U.G.AU.G.A was the first state supported univeristy in the U.S. It was also known as the Land grant univsity. The governoer granted land for the devolpment of the university. Abraham Baldwin was the first U.G.A president. -
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Constittional Covention
Constitutional ConventionGeorgia rewrote the Consttion in 178. It reflected thr changes made in the U.S constution. There were more weakness the there were streanghs. there were 3 strenghts and 6 weakness. -
Georgia Ratifies Constition
Georgia Raftifies the ConstitionIt was the first written constition for the U.S. We were the forth state to do so on Januray 2,1788. It created a losse relationship between the 13 indepentdent states. There were differnt strenghs and weakness. There was 1 strengh and 7 weakness. -
Eli Whiteny and the cotton guin
COTTON GINEli Whitney was the creator of the cotton gin. It sped up the seeding of cooton. This cotton gin increased the amount of cotton and slaves. -
Capital moves to Louisville
louisville Louisville was Georgias 3rd capital. It was named after King Louis XVI. IT only lasted from 1797 to 1807 -
Mississsippi Compromise
Missouri CompromiseThe goal of the compermise was to maintaine the balance between free and slave states. It all started when miissiori enterd as a free state and Maine enterd as free state. the north was free states and the south was slave states. -
Dahlognega Gold Rush
gold rushThe Dahlonega was were the Cherokee indiansfound gold on there land an the white man tried to take it.The white men went to court and made a law saying all chreokee land was now thiers. Sencie the chreokee could not sue thewhite men a white man named Samuel worster sue georgia for them. -
Worcester vs Georgia
worcester vs GeprgiaSamuel Worcester was the man who sued Georgia for the Chreokee indains. the case was called worecester vs georgia. He won the case. they said the law that states all indian land belongs to georgia does not apply to the chrokees. -
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trail of tears
Trail of tearsTrail of tears is when Cherokee indians had to walk 1000 miles to new land. They had to move because the white men heard about the gold on thier land. There were many chrekee indians that died during the walk form the west side of the Mississippi river to Olakahoma. -
Compromise of 1850
comp. of 1850Californa is going to upset the balane by becoming a free state. Slave trade also ended in Washington D.C. South got utah and mexico and the fugitive state law. -
Georgia Plantform
During the controversies of 1850 over slavery, some states issued platforms. Georgia Platform was a set of resolutions written by Charles J. Jenkins in December 1850. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred ScottDred scott was a slave . His owner moved to a free state. He sued his owner for freedom . Court ruled he was proptey not a citizen so he had to stay a slave. -
Kansas- Nebraska act
Kanas -nebraska acta law that maintanied that the popular soverty be used to detrime free or slave. Proslavery and antislavery clashed and roited. -
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Tom Wastson and the populists
Thomas E. Watson is perhaps best known to Georgians today by his imposing statue across the street from the Georgia capital.
Watson, one of Georgia's most promising politicians of the late nineteenth century, was elected to Congress in 1890 as a Southern Alliance Democrat. Within a year he shocked Georgians by quitting his party, joining the Populists, and founding a newspaper called the People's Party Paper. His public life has been considered one of the most perplexing a -
Electoin of 1860
Election of 1860the president Abrham Lincon. His drem was to stop slavery from sperding any farther. the south did not like that they thought they was gettting over ran. -
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uion blockade
Uoin blockadeThis was to block imports and exports. There were people that would get passed them and get thing they were called the blockade runners.It was called the adaconda plan. -
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International Cotton Exposition
H. I. Kimball, who had asked Atlanta to pay for 1/3 of the cost of the show, secures funding for the International Cotton Exposition in 6 hours.1881 International Cotton Exposition opens at Oglethorpe Park in Atlanta.Atlanta had grown during the post-war years in part because of cotton. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that as of January 1, 1863, all slaves in the rebellious states shall be forever free.Emancipation Proclamation did not free a single slave it was an important turning point in the war. -
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Battle of Gettysburg
GettysburgThis battle lasted for three day but was one of the bloodest battle in the civil war. It was Pennyliva . The north won. -
Battle Of Antietam
Antitietamtghe north and the south collied. the Uion won THere was 23,00 wounded missing or dead. -
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Chickamanga
chickamaugathis battle took place in tennessse. It lasted for two days. It was soth of the chattonouga river. Conerdater was winning but uoin came back with more troops and won. -
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Anderson Ville Prison camp
Some people know this as the dark side of the civil war. Pissonars were misscared for.13,200 Uoin were killed. -
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Atlanta
60,00 troop sheld back to shermans army . They burned briges and blocked rail roads hey would burn anything that got in there way. they left atlatna in flames. -
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Sermans march to sea
March to the seaSherman and his troops would burn anything in there way. Svannah was cut off. To fix it all it took 100 million dallors. -
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Shermans mafrch to sea
Sherman and his troops burned anything in the way. Svannah was cut off. To fix all the damge it took 100 million dollars. -
Thirteenth Amendment
The 13th Amendment was officially abolished slavery. It was ratified on December 6, 1865.The amendment states: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” -
Fourteenth Amendment
The amendment was passed by Congress June 13, 1866. The 14th amendment was to grant citizenship to “All persons born or naturalized in the United States,” thereby granting citizenship to former slaves. Another equally important provision was the statement that “nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” -
Ku KLUX Klan formed
In Pulaski, Tennessee, a group of Confederate veterans convenes to form a secret society that they christen the “Ku Klux Klan.” The KKK rapidly grew from a secret social fraternity to a paramilitary force bent on reversing the federal government.The name of the Ku Klux Klan was derived from the Greek word kyklos, meaning “circle,” and the Scottish-Gaelic word “clan,” which was probably chosen for the sake of alliteration. -
Henry Mc Neal Tuner
African Methodist Episcopal minister and later Bishop Henry McNeal Turner emerged immediately after the Civil War. Henry McNeal Turner was for many years the leading advocate of black migration to Africa.In July 1868, Turner was among the two state senators and twenty-five black Republican state representatives elected to serve in the Georgia legislature. -
Fifteenth Amendment
The 15th Amendment, granting African-American men the right to vote. It was brought into the U.S. Constitution on March 30, 1870. The amendment reads: “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.” -
Freedman's Bureau
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 1861-65. 4 million slaves gained their freedom as a result of the Union victory in the warThe Freedmen’s Bureau provided food, housing and medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance. -
Plesssy .v.s Ferguson
This 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.It stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African-American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car, breaking a Louisiana law. Court ruled that a state law that “implies merely a legal distinction” between whites and blacks did not conflict with the 13th and14th Amendments. -
1906 Atlanta Riot
During the Atlanta race riot that occurred September 22-24, 1906, white mobs killed dozens of blacks. 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 mob violence. -
leo fran case
A Jewish man in 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.On April 26, 1913, Mary Phagan, the child of tenant farmers who had moved to Atlanta for financial gain, went to the pencil factory to pick up her $1.20 pay for the twelve hours she had worked that week. A young factory girl had been brutally murdered; rumors spread that she had been sexually assaulted before her death. -
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Contry unit systems
The county unit system was established in 1917 when the Georgia legislature, overwhelmingly dominated by the Democratic Party, passed the Neill Primary Act.This act formalized what had operated as an informal system, instituted in Georgia in 1898, of allotting votes by county in party primary elections. he county unit system continued to be used in Democratic primaries for statewide office and selected U.S. House districts until the early 1960s. -
Andrew Young
ABOUT ANDREW YOUNGAndrew Jaskon Young was born on March12,1932 in New Orlandas, Louisianna. He was born during the Great Depression. He got a science degree in bioligy. He worked with Martin Luther King JR. -
hamilton holmes and charlayne hunter
Hamilton Holmes is best known for desegregating Georgia's universities.Hamilton Earl "Hamp" Holmes was born on july 8, 1941. -
March on washington
On August 28, 1963 there was 250,000 people participate in the March on Washington .The event began with a rally at the Washington Monument featuring several celebrities and musicians. The march was three hours long. -
CIivil rights act
civil rightsThe Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in public places.This act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964. It was not ease to do this. -
Lester Maddox
He was born in Atlanta. He was brought to office in 1966. He was the most unliked priedent. -
Maynard Jaskson was elected mayor
He was elected mayor of Atlanta in 1973. He was the first black to sever. He worked close with Andrew Young. -
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Jimmy Carter
About Jimmy Carter He was born on Oct.1,1924.He was the 39th president. He was awarded the 2002 noble peasce prize. his full name was James Earl Carter. -
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1996 Olympic Games
about the olympicABOUT THE BOMBINGAtlanta host the summer olympic of 1996. This was the larges untaking in the city's history. In the result of the terrorts bombing 2 people were killed and over 100 injured. -
The ablany movement
Its goal was to desegregation of an entire community, and it resulted in the jailing of more than 1,000 African Americans. Martin Luther King Jr. was drawn into the movement in December 1961.Eight months later King left Albany admitting that he had failed to accomplish the movement's goals.
