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Jan 1, 800
Archaic
The Middle Archaic Period lasted from approximately 8,000 to 5,000 years ago. This was a time of changing climatic conditions. -
Jan 1, 1000
Paleo Time Period
Paleo indians were the first humans to settled in Georgia. They were nomadic hunters and gatehers who followed large game such as large mastodons and giant bison. they also hunted mammoth and buffalo. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland
The term Woodland Indians was created in 1932 to describe a prehistoric culture. The cultural development that occurred in the Archaic Indians. -
Period: Jan 1, 1000 to
Mississippian
the Mississippian culture developed all along the Mississippi and the Missouri valleys, replacing the earlier Woodland culture. Now many people lived in towns. They built temples and palaces on top of big earth mounds. -
May 21, 1542
Hernando de Soto
hernando de soto was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States, and the first documented European to have crossed the Mississippi River. -
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James Wright
On December 13, 1927, James Arlington Wright was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio. He was an American colonial lawyer and jurist who was the last British Royal Governor of the Province of Georgia. -
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Henry Ellis
Henry Ellis was an explorer, author, and a colonial governor of U.S. state of Georgia and Nova Scotia. He was Georgia's seconed royal government, he has also been called "Georgia's second founder." -
Charter of 1732
King George was the king during the Colonial period. King George granted and signed the Charter of 1732. He is known as "Founder of Georgia'. The Charter was granted on April 21, 1732. King George signed the charter on June 7, 1732. -
Charter of 1732
The Charter of 1732 was the beginning of the original Georgia colony, the last of the 13 original colonies to be established. Still under the British rule, for it was only colony and the United States of America did not exist at the time, was set up for debtors in order to give them a fresh start in there lives. -
Slzburgers 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. The Salzburgers survived extreme hardships in both Europe and Georgia to establish a prosperous and culturally unique community. -
Highland Scots Arrive
A group of Scottish Highlanders sailed from Inverness headed to Georgia. They had been recrutiedby James Ogelthorp. -
Elijah Clarke/Kettle Cr.
Clarke served in the Georgia Militia during the American Revolutionary War. He fought in the southern theater and in the Battle of Kettle Creek. After the war, Clarke was elected to the Georgia legislature. In 1794 he organized the Trans-Oconee Republic, several settlements in counties of Georgia in traditional Creek territory. From there he attacked Creek villages, but was restrained by Georgia Governor George Mathews. -
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John Reynolds
John Reynolds was an officer of the Royal Navy. He served for a period as the royal governor of the Province of Georgia from 1754 -1757. He as been Amaried after his death. -
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American Revoluition
The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain, and founded the United States of America. -
Austin Dabney
Austin Dabney was a slave who fought against the British in the American Revolutionary War. He was born a mulatto slave in Wake County, North Carolina, sometime in the 1760s. -
The University of Georgia Founded
The University of Georgia was incorporated by an act of the General Assembly on January 27, 1785. Georgia became the first state to charter a state-supported university. -
Capital moved to Louisville
After the British left, the capital was moved to Augusta, then Louisville while a new city was being built on the Oconee River, reflecting the western move of Georgia's populace. But by 1847 some were unhappy with Milledgeville and called for an election to move the capital to Atlanta. -
Constituntion 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. -
Georgia Founded
Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe and 240 men women and children were slected to be the first colonists. Georgia was named after King Georgia II. And Georgia was the last of the thirteen origanal colonies. -
Georgia Ratifies Constitution
Georgia elected six delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. Only four went. And only two Abraham Baldwin and William Few signed the final document. -
Eli Whitney's and the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney created the cotton gin on March 14, 1793. the cotton gin is a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. -
Yazoo land fraud
The Yazoo land fraud was a scheme by which Georgia legislators were bribed in 1795 to sell most of their land. Most of that land is now making up the state of Mississippi. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At that time the United States contained only 21 states. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
The Georgia Gold Rush was the second biggest gold rush in the United States, it overshadowed the earlier rush in North Carolina. It started in 1828 in what we call now Lumpkin County near the county seat, Dahlonega, and soon spread through the North Georgia mountains, following the Georgia Gold Belt. -
Worcester v. Georgia
Worcester v. Georgia was a case in which the United States Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester and held that the Georgia criminal statute 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 12th elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a pioneer in Georgia in organizing new congregations of the independent black denomination after the American Civil War. -
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Trail of Tears
In 1838 and 1839 the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands in the east. They migrated to what we call know Oklahoma. The Cherokee nation called this the Traill of Tears. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican American War. -
Election of 1850
The United States Senate election of 1850 was an election which had the Democratic Party gain one seat in the United States Senate. -
Georgia Platform
With the nation facing the potential threat of disunion over the passage of the Compromise of 1850, Georgia, in a special state convention, adopted a proclamation called the Georgia Platform. The act was instrumental in averting a national crisis. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The kanasas-nebrask act created the territories of Kanasas and Nebraska. That opened new lands for settlement and had an efect on repealling the Missorii compermise. -
Tom Watson and the Popilists
The Populist Party was led by brilliant leader Thomas E. Watson. The new party mainly appealed to the white farmers. Many of these farmes had been made poor by debt and low cotton prices. -
Alonzo Herndon
Alonzo Franklin Herndon was a businessman and the founder and president of the Atlanta Family Life Insurance Company. -
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Union Blockade of Georgia
During the Civil War, the Union attempted to blockade the southern states. A blockade meant that they tried to prevent any goods, troops, and weapons from entering the southern states. By doing this, the Union thought they could cause the economy of the Confederate States to collapse. -
Battle of Antietam
Early in the morrnig of September 17, 1862, Confederate and Union troops in the Civil War clash near Maryland’s Antietam Creek in the bloodiest one-day battle in American history. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1st to 3rd, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. -
Battle of Chickamauga
The Battle of Chickamauga, fought September 19th to 20th, 1863, marked the end of a Union offensive in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia called the Chickamauga Campaign. -
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Andersonville Prison Camp
The prison at Andersonville was the largest prison for captured union soldiers. The prisoin was called camp sumter. About 13,000 union soldiers died at camp sumter. -
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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 with Confederate soldiers on the outskirts of the city, including the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain on June 27, which the Union forces lost. -
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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, conducted through Georgia. -
Thirteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. costitution abolished slavery and involuntary domination, except as punishment for a crime. -
Freedman's Bureau
In an effort to make life better for newly freed slaves the U.S. congress created the Freedman's Bureau. The freedman's Bureau was established in 1865. -
Dred Scott Case
In March 1865, the U.S. Supreme Court issued it's dession in the case of Dred Scott vs. Standford. The case had been brought before the court by Dred Scoot , a slave who had lived with his owener befor returning to a slave state called Missoriorii -
Ku Klux Klan Formed
The Ku Klux Klan was formed on December 24, 1865. They wore white robes designed to be terrifying, and to hide their identities. This so called Klan set crosses and churches to flams. -
WEB DuBois
William E. Burghardt was a sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor. -
Fourteenth Amendment
The Fourtheenth Amendment was adopted on July 9, 1868. The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws -
Fifteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution bans the Government from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's Race or color. -
John and Lugenia Hope
Lugenia Burns Hope was an early-twentieth-century social activist, reformer, and community organizer. John Hope was an important African American educator and race leader of the early twentieth century. -
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 and then having subsequently played in Milwaukee for a little more than a decade. -
International Cotton Exposition
International Cotton Exposition was a world's fair held in Atlanta, Georgia, from October 5 to December 31 of 1881. The location was along the Western & Atlantic Railroad tracks near the present-day King Plow Arts Center development in the West Midtown area. -
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. He was known as "The Father of the Two-Ocean Navy". -
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington was bprn on April 5, 1856. He became one of the most influential Africain- American intellectuals of the 19th century. Booker founded the Tuskegee Institute. It was a black school in Alabama made for tranig teachers. -
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William B. Hartsfiled
William B. Hartsfield was an American politician who served as the 49th and 51st Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. He served for mayer for six terms. -
Plessy V. Furgeson
The Plessy V. Furgeson case was held in the U.S. Supreme Court on May 18, 1896 and ended a year later. The case was brought up beacuse Pless attemptted to sit in an all-white section on the railroad car. He was arrested for violation of the Louisina state law, blacks sit with blacks and whites sit with whites. -
1906 Atlanta Riot
The Atlanta race riot of 1906 was a mass civil disturbance in Atlanta, Georgia , which began the night of September 22 and lasted until September 24, 1906. -
Leo Frank Case
Leo Frank was was found guilty of the murder of Mary Pnagan on April 26, 1913. On April 17, 1915 he was hung from a oak tree. -
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World war 1
World war 1 was the world's firts global conflict.The allies were Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and the United States. the countries listed fought agiansted the centrial powers which included Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empireand Bulgaria. -
County Unit System
The County Unit System was established in 1917. This happened when the georgia Liegeslature was dominated by the Demorcatic party. The County Unit System was continualy used in Democratic Primaries for statewide office and also selected U.S. House districts. -
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William B. Hartsfiled
Hartsfiled begain the pratice of law in 1917, then he was elected to Georgia's city council in 1923.There, he chaired the council’s aviation committee and led the drive to create an Atlanta airport. He then was elected to the Genreal Assembly in 1933, Hartsfield most noted accomplishments would come after election as mayor of Atlanta in 1937 an office he would hold except for one small amount of time until his retirement. from politics in 1962. Atlanta was rich thaks to him. -
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Great Depression
the Great Depression was the country's longest lasting econmic downturn in the history in the western world. The Great Depression started soon after the stock market crashed. this made people panic. -
Richard Russell
Richard Russell was a n American politician from Georgia. He was member of the Democratic Party and he served as speaker for a breaf time in the Georgia house, and as Governor of Georgia 1931 to 1933 before serving in the United States Senate for almost 40 years. -
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. -
Engene Talmadge
Engene Talmadge ran for governor in Georgia five times. He only won four. He served for three and was, quiet the character. He was know as the farmer's champion -
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps also known as the CCC was a public work relief program that opperated in the united states for unemplowed and anmarried men for relief families as part of the new deal. -
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Holocaust
The Holocaust is a time in U.S. history were the natzis held jews captive under Hilers control. They were held in consentration camps in Germany. Over six million jews were killed in durring the Holocaust. -
Agricultural Adjustment Act
The Agriculture 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 and therefore effectively raise the value of crops. -
Rural Electrification
Rural electrification is the process of bringing electrical power to rural and remote areas. -
Social Security
The social security act was signed by Frankin D. Roosevlt. -
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World War II
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. -
Civil Right Act
The civil rights movement in the American South was one of the most significant and successful social movements in the modern world. Black Georgians formed part of this southern movement for full civil rights and the wider national struggle for racial equality. -
Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1949 just before 8 am hundreds of Japanese fighter jets attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harber, it lasted for two hours. Pear Harber is located near Honalolo, Hawaii. -
Alanta Hawks
The Alanta Hawks are a basket ball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They were founed in 1946 at the Philips Arena. In 1951, Kerner moved the team moved to Milwaukee, where they changed their name to the Hawks. -
Herman Talmadge
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. -
1946 Governor's Race
For a brief period of time in 1947, 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
The story of Brown v. Board of Education, , which ended legal segregation in public schools, is one of hope and courage. , which ended legal segregation in public schools, is one of hope and courage. -
Sibley Commission
In 1959 U.S. District Court judge Frank Hooper ruled unconstitutional Atlanta's segregated public school system and ordered it integrated. -
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committeewas one of the most important organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. -
The Albany Movement
The Albany Movement was a desegregation coalition formed in Albany, Georgia, on November 17, 1961, by local activists, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and the National Association for the Advancement of the blacks. -
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Ivan Allen Jr.
Ivan Allen Jr. served as mayor of Atlanta from 1962 to 1970. He is credited with leading the city through an era of significant physical and economic growth and with maintaining calm during the civil rights movement. -
Atlanta Falcons
The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are a member of the South Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League. -
Maynard Jackson Elected Mayor
Maynard Jackson was elected mayor of Atlanta in 1973, Maynard Jackson was the first African American to serve as mayor of a major southern city. Jackson served eight years and then returned for a third term in 1990. -
Jimmy Carter in Georgia
Jimmy Carter served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Carter Center. -
Benjamin Mays
Benjamin Elijah Mays was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. is famous for his "I have a dream" speach. He faught for the blacks to have rights. He is an insperation to all Americans. -
1996 Olympic Games
The 1996 Olympic Games was healed in Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta became the sixth American city to host the Olympic Games and the third to hold a Summer Olympic Games. It will remain the last time the United States has hosted the Summer Olympics until at least 2024. -
Hamilton Holmes And Charlayne Hunter
Hamilton Holmes was an American orthopedic physician. He and Charlayne Hunter were the first two African American students admitted to the University of Georgia. -
1956 State Flag
May 8, 2003, Governor Sonny Perdue signed legislation creating a new state flag for Georgia. The new banner became effective immediately. -
March on Washington
March on Washington was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history. It was held in Atlanta, Georgia.
