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Jan 1, 1000
Paleo
Paleo InformationThe Paleo period was 12,000 years ago. The paleo Indians were nomadic. They migratted with the animals. They also invented the clovis point (spear head arrow). They hunted large game animals. There homes were just sticks and some animal fur. They never established a permanent hom. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland
Woodland Indians ImformationThe Woodland Indians time span was 1000BC - 1000AD. The woodland Indians are starting to stay in places for long periods of time. First to envent the bow and arrow. Eperimented with agriculture. They are starting to trade a little.They are also religous thinking. -
Jan 1, 1000
Archaic
Archaic InformationThe Archaic Indians were 8000BC - 1000bc. The Archaic Indians have seasonal migrations, but they return to same spots each season.They live in caves, pit houses, and dewllings. They have a more pointed spearheads and simple pottery for storage. Smaller game animals for food. The enviorment has changed. Most of the larger animals became extinct. -
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Mississippian
The Missippian time period has the most advanced form of government (Chiefdom). Technology such as more advanced potary, jewelery, and tools were created in the Missippian time period. They were also the first time priod to live of of just farm grown grops and less meat. -
Nov 1, 1540
Hernando De Soto
Hernando de SotoHernando De Soto left cuba with a large group of people in search of gold. His soilder's killed thousands of American Indians. His search for gold was a failure. He died somewhere along the Mssisipian River -
Georgia Founded
Georgia founded imformationGeorgia founded imformation James Ogelthorpe founded Georgia in search of a new colony. This colont was going to be for the people in debters prision. This colony gave people a fresh start so they could live somewhere they wont get diseases. -
Charter of 1732
The Charter containesd contradictions. The colonists were entitled to all the the rights of Englishmen, yet there was no provision for the essential right of local government. Religious liberty was guaranteed, except for Roman Catholicism and Judaism. A group of Jews landed in Georgia without explicit permission in 1733 but were allowed to remain. The charter created a corporate body called a Trust and provided for an unspecified number of Trustees who would govern the colony from England. -
Salzburgers
more Salzburgers imformationKing George ll sent thr Salzburgers to georgia to escape the catholics. The catholics were kicked out of Austria. They first settle and named their town Ebenezer. -
Highland Scots Arrive
Highland Scots ImformationThe highland scots arrived in georgia in october of 1735. They settle in a city and named it Darien. They are known for their bravery and toughness. They came to help fight the french. -
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John Reynolds
John Reynolds ImformationGeorgia's first Royal govenor. Reynolds major accomplishment was a two house government. His major error was sendingthe the Legislature group home and running Georgia on his own. -
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Henry Ellis
Henry Ellis ImformationGeorgia's second Royal Govenor was Henry Ellis. He is very well liked and succesful. Major economic growth,population growth, and good relations with the Indians. Ellis promoted large farms by providing land and slaves. -
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James Wright
James Wright ImformationThe Last Royal Govenor. Well liked until the Decleration of Independence. He lasted about 18 years. Slavery was stil legal and you were still able to purchase land. -
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Yazoo land fraud
The Yazoo Land Fraud was where large land companies bought land for cheap ratesand sold land for high prices. The land companies bride the legislative government to allow them to buy the land. -
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American Revolutiion
American Revolution ImformationThe American Revolution had fivie causes leadint up too it. The French and Indian war, Proclamation of 1763, Itolerable acts, Decleration of Independence. -
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Revolutionary War
The revolutionary war was a war between the british and the colonies of America. The colonies were tired of being under the rule of King george after the intolerable acts. These acts angered the colonists because they believed it was unfair. After the colonists signed a document to become indepedant of Britain king George was angered and thu the war began. -
Eljah Clarke/ Kettle Creeek
Elijah Clarke/ Battle of Kettle Creek ImformationElijah Clarke lead the patriots to defeat the Brithish troops. The battle took place at Kettle Creek. This was only a minor battle compared to the others during that time.He helped the patriots win that battle. -
Austin Dabney
Austin Dbney ImformationAustin Dabney was mixed culture and fought in the Battle of Keetle Creek. He was injured but not killed during the Battle. He has town named after him. -
University of Georgia
The University Of Georgia, founded in 1785, and commonly referred to as UGA or simply Georgia is a American land-grant university and sea grant research university. The fisrt state-chartered university, it is the oldest and the largest of Georgia's institutions of higher learning. The University of Georgia is part of the University System of Georgia and is accredited by the Southern Association of colleges and schools. -
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Constitutional Convention
Constitutional Convention InformationGeorgia rewrote the Constitution in 1787. It reflected the changes the U.S. Constitution Made. There are six weeknesses and three strenghts -
Georgia Ratifies Constitution
Georgia Ratifies Constitution ImformationThe first written Constitution for the United States. It Created loose relationships withe the Independent states. There were thirteen Independent states. -
Capital moved to Louisville
The capital of Georgia moved to louisville so that they could have a more centralized area because population was shifting. -
Eli Whiney and the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney envented the cotton gin so that you could pick the seeds out of cotton quicker. Cotton became the 'king Crop'. Slavery also became a large amout of the population in Georgia. -
Missouri Compromise
The plan was to balance out the states by putting the same number of slave states as free states. Missouri enters the U.S. as a slave state. Maine enters as a free state. The border between slave and free states was created south of Missouri. This compromise lasted 30 years. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
Dahlonega Gold Rush was where georgia kicked the Cherokke Indians out of georgia because they found gold on their land. -
Trail of Tears
A 1,000 mile journey to the designated area for indians in what is now known as Oklahoma. Many Idians died on the way mostly babies and older peole. -
Worccester VS. Georgia
Worcester sued georgia for making the Cherokees leave their land. Worcestrer was not an Indian because Indians could testify in court against a white man. the Cherokees win there case but noone enforces the law that they could stay. -
Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850 imformationCalifornia is going to upset the balane between free states and slave states. The north gets california and the Washington D.C. slave trade ends. The south gets New mexico and Utah to open vote on slavery. The south also gets the fugitive slave law -
Georgia Platform
he citizens of Georgia created a document that stated that they would abode by the compromise of 1850. the document was called the georgia platform. shortly after the platform was created there was a constitutional party created -
Kanasas-Nebraska Act
Kanasas-Nebraska ActA law mandationg that popular sovereinty be determined if free or slave state. If it was popular sovereinty they would vote on the issue of slavery. Proslavery settlers and antislavery settlers class and riot. Some were killed and Knasas got the nickname " Bleeding Kansas". -
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Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington was born in 1856. He was an influential leader in many ways. In September 1895, Washington was Invited to speak at the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta. He publicly accepted disfranchisement and social segregation as long as whites would allow black economic progress, educational opportunity, and justice in the courts. -
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Tom Watson and the Populist
Tom Watson and the populist were a group that supported small farmers. One of Toms biggest accomplishments was rural mail delivery. He was the writer of a newspaper called the Jeffersonian. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott CaseA slave from Missouri whose owner was moving to a Illonois. Illinois is a free state. He sues for freedom, but the court rules that Scott is property and is not a citizen. This proved slavery could go anywhere -
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Alonzo Herndon
Born into slavery, he was the son of his white master, Frank Herndon, and an enslaved woman, Sophenie. Together with his mother, her parents, and his younger brother, Herndon was emancipated in 1865, aged seven years old.Herndon had only saved 11 dollars and only had approximately one year of schooling. His barbering business thrived and expanded over the years; and he went on to invest in real estate, and then entered insurance. He successfully built up the Atlanta Life Insurance Company. -
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Union Blockade
The Union Blockade was the closing of Confederate ports 1861-1865, during the American Civil War by the Union Navy, a form of economic warfare.. The U.S. Navy maintained a massive effort on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the Confederate States of America designed to prevent the local and international movement of cotton, supplies, soldiers and arms into or out of the Confederacy. The vast majority of vessels from other nations obeyed the blockades. -
Election of 1860
Election of 1860 imformationAbraham Lincoln was elected president. He wanted to keep slavery where it was and stop from spreading it. The southerner thought he wanted to comepletly get rid of slavery. The southerners also didnt want to be out numbered by free states. Georgia began debating about breaking away from Georgia. -
Union Blockade of Georgia
Union Blockade of GeorgiaA blockade would prevent the south from selling cotton abroad and importing needed war equipment. Their were over650 Blockade runners during 1861. The "Anaconda Plan" surronded the south and tried to strave the south into surrendering. -
Battle of Antietam
Southern armies collided here on sept.17, 1862. In what was the bloodiest one day battle of the civil war -
Emancipation Proclamation
The emancipation Proclamation was where president Lincoln announced that all slaves in the southern states were freed. -
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Andersonville
From February 1864 until the end of the American Civil War in April 1865, Andersonville, Georgia, served as the site of a notorious Confederate military prison. The prison at Andersonville. -
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Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg took place in Pennsylvania. This battle was the turning point of the civil war. The North victory in the war with 51,000 casualties. -
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Battle of Chickamauga
Battle of Chickamauga In the late 1863, Union forces moved north agianist the railroads center in Chattanooga Tennesee.The Union origanilly won, but General Uylsses Grant arrived with more troops. Confederates won -
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Sherma's Atlanta Campaingn
sherman's atlanta campaignGeneral U.s. Grant led 112,000 men to Chattanooga. He took those men and started a campaign to Georgia. He faced General Braxton Bragg wirh 60,000 troops later that year the two armies faught again. The johnstons were out of amunition, so they were forced southwards. Instead they burned bridges and blocked roads. -
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March to the Sea
General Sherman's march through the state of Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah was one of the most devastating blows to the South in the American Civil War. Not only did he take control of Atlanta, a major railroad hub, and Savannah, a major sea port, but he laid the land between Atlanta and Savannah to waste, destroying all that was in his path. -
Thirteenth Amendment
The Thirteeth Amendment to the U.S. constitution it continued to the work of the Emancipation Proclamation,officiallu abolished slavery.The passed by congress in January 1865 it was submitted to the states for ratification. It was ratified in December 1865. President Andrew Johnson made ratification of the amendment a requirement for the southern states to rejoin the union. -
Klu Klux Klan
The ku Klux Klan was created on december 24, 1865. It started in pulaski tennesee. The Ku Klux Klan was created to intimidate blacks too not exercise their basic rights such as voting -
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W.E.B. Dubois
W.E.B. Du Bois was an African American historian, writer, and Civil Rights leader. He encouraged people in the United States and all over the world to fight against prejudice and discrimination. Du Bois believed that all people deserve equal rights and that change can be gained through both protest and education. Between 1897 and 1910, Du Bois taught at Atlanta University in Georgia. -
Henry McNeal Turner
One of the most influential African American leaders in late-nineteenth-century Georgia , Henry McNeal Turner was a pioneering church organizer and missionary for the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) in Georgia, later rising to the rank of bishop. Turner was also an active politician and Reconstruction-era state legislator from M he became an outspoken advocate of back-to-Africa emigration -
Fourteenth Amendment
The fourteenth Amendment gave frred slaves the ability to become a citizen of the state and country. -
Fifteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment granted all male citizens the right to vote regardkss of '' race, color, or previous condition of servitude.'' the amendment was submitted to the states in February 1869 and ratifiend in February 3,1870. -
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Thomas E. Watson
Watson did not remain in the legislature for long, however; he chose to resign his seat before the end of the session. His writings indicate that he was dissatisfied with the slow pace of the lawmaking process and resentful of the growing influence of the "New South" as it moved away from the traditional agrarian economy toward more industrial sectors. -
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Trail of Tears
About 15 thousand Cherokee were forced out of their home. They were forced to walk for a very long distance. they walked in the winter time so it was cold. Many died from starvation, disease, and exhaustion -
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World War 1
WW1 was the first global war. The war was faught from 1914-1918. This war led to millions of deaths. France, Great Britain, Russia, and the U.S. The central powers were Germany, Austria-Hungary,and the Ottoman Empire. -
Carl Vinson
He served 25 consecutive term in U.S. House of Represenitives. He represented Georgia. He was one of Georgias most influential leaders. -
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Eugene Talmadge
He was one of Georgias most controversal politicans. He was the govenor of Georgiaduring the Great Depression. He gained a lot of support from rural areas. He used the County Unit System. -
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Great Depression
The two issues that led Georgia into the Great Depression were the Boll Weevil and drought. -
Richard Russell
A man who was in the U.S. Senate. While he was in the senate he was appointed to the Naval Affairs commitee. He used that position to bring millitary installations. -
Agriculture Adjustment Act
The Agricultural Adjustment Act was a United States federal law of the New Deal era which reduced agricultural production by paying farmers to produce less crops. When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in March 1933, the United States was in the midst of the Great Depression. The AAA was a part of the New deal which was made to bring The United States out of The Great Depression. -
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Holocaust
Troops for Georgia and all over were sent in and found all kinds of consentration camps during the holocaust. The purpose was toget rid of the jews. The group was called the Nazi's. The leader of the Nazi's was named Adolf Hitler. -
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Social Security
Workers needed some protect against unemployment. In 1935, congress passed the Social Security Act. The federal government will provide retirements an unemployment insurance form taxes paid by both workers and their employers. Farm workers, however were not covered buy the new program. -
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World War 2
In Georgia, southern states were critical to the war efforts. 320,000 people from Georgia served in the US armed forces during WW2, others started to work at factories to help with the war efforts. World War 2 lifted Georgia out of the Great Depression. -
Benjamin Mays
He was a African American minister,educator, scholar, and socail activist. His parents were former slaves. He worked with Martin Luther King. -
Pearl Harbor
December seventh, 1941, he attacking planes came in two waves. The first hits its target at 7:53 AM, the second hits at 8:55. 9:55 was when it was all over. Behind them they left chaos, 2,403 dead, 188 destroyed planes and a crippled Pacific Fleet. The Pacific Fleet included 8 damaged or destroyed battleships. -
Andrew Young
Andrew young InformationBorn on March 12, 1932. He graduated from Howard University in 1951. He won Georgia's fifth district seat of house of representatives in 1972. He also worked with Martin Luther King Jr before his death. -
Brown v.s. Board of Education
The Brown V.S. Board of Education case started when a young seven year old student was enrolling in a school and was denied. Her father and NAACP sued the school. This ruled that the seperate but equal schools were unconstitutional. -
1956 State Flag
The flag was changed to incorperate the st. Andrews cross. Which was a emblem for the conferate battles. The African Americans were very offended by the flag. They introduced a new flag but it did not last very long. They changed it again to the one we have now. -
Sibley Commison
In 1960 Govenor Ernest Landiver Jr. was forced to decide between closing down public schools or to desegregate them. The people didnt really agree with this. -
hamilton holmes and charlayne hunter
The Hamilton Homes is best known for desegregationg the university of Georgia. They were the first African Americans to go to this college. They also had a club and helped other African Americans coming to UGA. -
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Ivan Allen Jr.
A businessman who served as mayor of Atlanta from 1962 to 1970. He ordered the immediate removeal of colored and white signs. He oversaw constution on public facilities. -
March on Washington
More than 200,000 Americans gathered in washington D.C. for a march for fredom and jobs. The religiuos and civil rights groups organized this event. Martin Luther King JR. gave his famous "i have a dream" speech at the march. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
King was a baptist minister and played a large major role on the civil rights movement. King wanted equality. He helped people stand up to their rights. He gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech during the march on washington. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act ended a segregation in public places. The act also babded employment discrimanation. This was first thought up by John F. Kennedy. -
Lester Maddox
The state thought that lester maddox was the states most unlikely govennor. He was brought to officein 1966. He supprised many by serving as an able unquestionalbility colorful cheif executive. -
Atlanta Braves
The Milwaukee braves promised to move to Atlanta and play there if they built a stadium. In 1966 the Atlanta Braves played there first game -
Atlanta falcons
The Atlanta falcons sooned followed and started to play in Atlanta on August 1 1966 -
Atlanta Hawks
The Atlanta hawks started playing a little while after the braves. The hawks is a basketball team. The hawks started playing in 1968. -
William B. Hartsfeild
He was mayor of Atlanta. he made Atlanta a center for aviation. Helped during the civil rights movement. They brought growth to Georgia. -
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Maynard Jackson
Jackson was elected mayor in 1973. He was the first African American to serve as mayor of a major city. He was mayor for 8 years and then in 1990 he came back for a second term. -
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Jimmy Cater
Jimmy Carter InformationJimmy cater was the 39th president of the United States of America.Jimmy Carter was born on October 1, 1924. He was awarded 2002 Nobel Peace Prize. -
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1996 Olympic Games
Olympic Games InformationAtlanta hosted the 1996 Summer Olympic games.The Preperations and building games took six years. it cost atleat 5.14 billion dollars. More than 2 million visiters came and more than 3.5 billion people watched.During the olympic there was a bomd two people were killed and 100 were injured. Eric Robert Rudolph was convicted of placing the bomb with nails and srews. -
Freedmen's Bureau
Freedmen's Bureau was an organized to help freed slaves and poor whites find jobs, education training, food, and shelter. -
Emancipation Proclamation
the emancipation proclamation was where president Lincoln announced that all slaves in the southern states were free. -
The Albany Movement
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Brown V.S. Board of Education
The Brown Vs. Board of education was a major case that ended legal segregation. On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously announced an end to public segregation in schools in the famous Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case.Linda Brown was an African-American third-grader whose father, Oliver Brown, had sued the school system in Topeka, Kansas. Brown ststed that the school system was discriminating against African-American students in violation of the 14th Amendment.
