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Jan 1, 1000
Paleo
Paleo Indian InformationExisted 12,000 years ago. The Paleo Indians also are migratory, meaning they move from place to place follwoing their food. The Paleo Indians have no trade type , nor religion type. The Paleo Indians also hunt large game animals. -
Jan 1, 1000
Archaic
Archaic Indian InformtionPaleo Indian InformationThe Archaic Indians for a pattern by moving with the season. For their hunting tools they use bow and arrow. They hunt animals such as deer, and bear. They also have somw organized trade. They also don't have any organized reliogon type. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland
Woodland Indian InformationThe Woodland Indians started farming a small tribe and villages. The Woodland Indians are more advanced. For their weapons they use a bow and arrow. They began experimenting with growing their own food. Such as sunflower, squash, beands, and maze. They also had some organized trade , and began religious mounds. -
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Missippian Indians
Most Advanced and first true civilazation on evidence of goverment lifestyle. Most advanced technology. They also have the most advancment dealing with trade. They have advanced pottery. First to live off of farming. -
Period: Jan 1, 1000 to Jan 1, 1006
Missippian Indians
Most advanced and first true civilazation evidence of goverment lifestyle. Most advanced in technology. Still hunt small game animals as well. They have the most advanced religon and they have importance of their ancestors. They also was the first to live off farming. -
Jan 1, 1540
Hernando De Soto
De Sot came to Georgia in search of gold. During his time in Georgia he fought in battles. Him and his explores brought diseases with them , and many Native Americans died from that and in battles. De Soto had better weapons that the natives, the diseases killed alomst half of all the people. -
Charter of 1732
The Charter of 1732 was signed by King George II. The Charter was a document that laid out rules and laws of the new colony. This Charter set up a trustee colony. Which means it was governed by a group of Trustees. -
Georgia Founded
Georgiqa was founded by James Oglethrope. Georgia got its name from King George II. James Oglethrope made Georgia so that debators could start everything over. Over time it became a home to different types of people. -
Salzburgers Arrive
The Salzburgers were exiled because they were protestants. They arrived in Georgia March 12 , 1734. The reading states that these people were invited to come to Georgia to escape the Catholic's Chuch. The Salzburgers also formed New Ebenezer. -
Highland Scots Arrive
The Highland Scots arrived on Janurary 10 , 1736 From a placed named Scotland. The article stares that they were recruited for their defense of that colony. According to the reading and research the Salzburgers were prepared and were not afraid. -
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John Reynolds
Reynolds was the first royal governor. He also started the concept of self goverment. Reynolds also arrived to drees and celebration. He turned Georgia from a trustee colony to a royal colony. He came up with overpowering. The legislative and Reynolds had a conflict between each other, A effect of that would be that a king would replace him. -
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John Reynolds
Reynolds was the first royla governor. He also started the concept of self goverment. Reynolds also arrived to peers and celebration. Heturned Georgia from a trustee colony to a royal colony. He came with over powering the legislative and Reynolds to have a conflict betweeneach other. -
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Henry Ellis
Henry Ellis was the 2nd royal governor. Henry took over for John Reynolds. Ellis was very popular. He also became a better governor than Reynolds. -
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James Wright
James Wright served through 1760 to 1782. He is the 3rd royal governor. He expanded Ellis policies. He also governed through he American Revolution. He also was the 3rd & last royal governor. -
Eli Whitney and 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 Antebellum South. -
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American Revolution
The Ameriascan Revolution started on April 19, 1775 and ended September 3 , 1783. This war was a very bloody war. Many of people died in this war. This was the French & Indian war of angering the colonists. There were also shortterm causes in this war. -
Elijah Clarke And Battle of Kettle Creek
Elijah Clarke was born in 1742, son of John Clarke. He joined the rebels as a milita captain. He recieved a wound for fighting with the Cherokees in 1773. Clarke also survived small pox. The battle of Kettle Creek was a encounter in the back county of Georgia. -
Austin Dabney
Austin was born a slave in Wake County. Dabney became a artillery man in the colonial Elijah Clarke's Company. Dabney was granted some acres becoming to any African Amreican to be granted land by Georgia. Dabney has attained as a Revolutioary War veteran and man. -
University of G.A founded
The Universtity of Georgia took over Georgia on January 27, 1785. This University had a mojor effect on Georgia because new people started moving there. General Assembley gave land for a College. The first state supported University of Georgia. -
Capital moved to Lousiville
Louisville became the capitol of georgia on January 26, 1786. Louisville is the county seat of Jefferson County. The town grew as the result of both large-scale immigration to the Georgia upcountry. On January 26 , 1786. The assembly passed a law appointing Nathan Brownson and Hugh Lawson as commisoners charged with finding a site for the seat of goverment. -
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Capital moved to Louisville
Lousiville became the capitol of Georgia on Janurary 26, 1786. The reason for Lousiville is vecause they wanted a centeralized locatiopn for westerna expansion. Lousiville was named in honor of King Louis XVI of fraud for help in the Revolution. Legislators demanded the capitol move to stay central based on popultation. -
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Constutional Convention
After discussioon agreed that a national goverment consiting of a supreme legislative , judiciary , and executive should be formed. Discussed whether reprendsation should be based on population or the amount of each state's final contribution. -
Georgia Ratifies Constitution
Georgia elected delegates to the constitution convention in Philadephia in the summer of 1787. Only 4 people went. Thios was chaired by George Washington , had the authority. The small States feared being swallowed up by the larger ones and many people objected. -
Eli Whitney & the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney was born in 1765-1825. He was the creator of the cotton gin in 1794. It was made for removing remaning seeds inside of cotton. It was also a huge increase in more money , because it was a much quicker process. This also made it easier to get the cotton down into seeds within a couple of seconds. -
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Yazoo Land Fraud
Land speculstors formed companies and started trying to buy some of the land in 1789 , but the effort began in 1794. The Georgian's were outraged when they found out about the fraud. It finally ended 1814 when the federal goverment took control of it. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was a federal statute in the United States that regulated slavery in the country's western territories. The compromise, devised by Henry Clay, was agreed to by the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress and passed as a law in 1820. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
There are many stories told about this Gold Rush. But no one is really certain who made the first discovery. North Carolina found gold on Ward's Creek near Dahlonega. Young Benjamin picks us a unusual looking stone while looking for deer west of the Chestatee River in 1828. There was no documented evidence of the gold in Georgia. -
Trail of Tears
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At the beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida–land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations. By the end of the decade, very few natives remained anywhere in the southeastern United States. Working on behalf of white settlers who wanted to grow cotton on the Indians’ land, the federal government forced them to leave their homelands and walk . -
Worcester vs. Georgia
In the 1820s and 1830s 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. In 1827 the Cherokees established a constitutional government. -
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Trail of Tears
A part of Andrew Jackson's religon removal policy , the Cherokee's nation was forced to give up it's land east of Mississippi River and tpo migrate to an area in the present day Oklahoma. They faced hunger , disease , and exhaustion. They forced the inmigrants to march over 4,000 out of 15,000 of the cherokees died. -
Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
Georgia Platform
GEORGIA PLATFORM, a set of resolutions written by Charles J. Jenkins and adopted in December 1850 by a convention held in Milledgeville, Georgia, to decide on the course Georgia would take regarding the Compromise of 1850. It was the sense of these resolutions that the state would accept the compromise "as a permanent adjustment of the sectional controversy." However, the platform also issued a warning that any further encroachments made on the South's rights . -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 (10 Stat. 277) created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery. -
Dred Scott Case
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In March 1857, in one of the most controversial events preceding the American Civil War (1861-65), the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford. The case had been brought before the court by Dred Scott, a slave who had lived with his owner in a free state before returning to the slave state of Missouri. Scott argued that his time spent in these locations entitled him to emancipation. -
Election of 1860
The Democrats met in Charleston, South Carolina, in April 1860 to select their candidate for President in the upcoming election. It was turmoil. Northern democrats felt that Stephen Douglas had the best chance to defeat the "BLACK REPUBLICANS." Although an ardent supporter of slavery, southern Democrats considered Douglas a traitor because of his support of popular sovereignty, permitting territories to choose not to have slavery. -
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Union Blockade of Georgia
he Union blockade began just a few weeks after the start of the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln announced it on April 19, 1861. The Union continued to blockade the South throughout the Civil War until the war ended in 1865. he Union blockade was part of a larger strategy called the Anaconda Plan. The Anaconda Plan was the brainchild of Union General Winfield Scott. General Scott felt that the war could take a long time and that the best supplied armies would win. -
Battle of Antietam
THe morning assault and vicious confeederate attack swept back and fourth through Miller's Cornfield and the west woods. Later, towards the center of battlefield union assaults against Sunken Road , pierced the confederate. -
Emacipation Proclimation
The natiion approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclimation decleared "that all persons held as slaves "within the rebellions "states are ,and henceforward shall be free. Lincoln had first shwoed an early draft of the proclimation to VIce President Hamibal Hamlin. -
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On July 1, early Union success faltered as Confederates pushed back against the Iron Brigade and exploited a weak Federal line at Barlow’s Knoll. The following day saw Lee strike the Union flanks, leading to heavy battle at Devil's Den, Little Round Top, the Wheatfield, Peach Orchard, Culp’s Hill and East Cemetery Hill. Southerners captured Devil’s Den and the Peach Orchard, but ultimately failed to dislodge the Union defenders. On the final day, July 3rd, fighting raged at Culp's Hill. -
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Battle of Chickmauga
While they marched on September 18th, his cavalry and infantry skirmished with Union mounted infantry, who were armed with state-of-the-art Spencer repeating rifles. Fighting began in earnest on the morning of the 19th near Chickamauga Creek. Bragg’s men heavily assaulted Rosecrans’ line, but the Union line held. Fighting resumed the following day. -
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Andersonville Prison Camp
The Camp Sumter military prison at Andersonville was one of the largest Confederate military prisons during the Civil War. During the 14 months the prison existed, more than 45,000 Union soldiers were confined here. Of these, almost 13,000 died here. Today, Andersonville National Historic Site is a memorial to all American prisoners of war throughout the nation's history. -
Sherman's March to the Sea
From November 15 until December 21, 1864, Union General William T. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of this “March to the Sea” was to frighten Georgia’s civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause. Sherman’s soldiers did not destroy any of the towns in their path, but they stole food and livestock and burned the houses and barns of people who tried to fight back. The Yankees were “not only fighting hostile armies. -
International Cotton Expostion
Atlanta leaders hosted a series of three "cotton expositions" that were important to the city's recovery and economic development . These expositions helped atlanta state it's claim as the center of the New South. The great promoter of the first two expositions was Henry W.Grady the managing editor of the Atlanta Constituion and one of the framers of a New Vision for the South and its economy -
Tom Watson and the Populists
Tom Watson is perhaps best known to Georgian's today by his imposing statue across the street from the Georgia capitol. His public life has been considered one of the most perplexing and controlversial of all Georgia politicans , in his later years , he emerged as a force for white supermacy and anti catholic rhetoric. He was elected to the Georgia General Assembly (1882) the U.S House of Represenatives (1890) and the U.S senate (1920) , he served for only a short time before his death. -
Carl Vinson
Vinson was born in Fulton County, Georgia, attended Georgia Military College, and graduated with a law degree from Mercer University in 1902. He was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1908. After losing a third term following redistricting, he was appointed judge of the Baldwin County court, but following the sudden death of Senator Augustus Bacon, Representative Thomas W. Hardwick of Georgia's 10th congressional district . -
Leo Frank Case
Leo Frank was born Aprin 17 , 1884 in Cuero, Texas to Rudolph and Rae Frank . Frank was maintaining his position as supervisor of the National Pencil Factorry. At the time of Mary Phagan's murder , Leo was 29 years old . He had supervised the factory for almost Newt Lee and Leo were both arrested on the suspicon of being implicated in the murder of Mary Phagan . Lee was African American and was the man who discovered her body soaked with blood , with two scrawled notes lying nearby . -
Richard Russell
Serving in the U.S. Senate from 1933 until his death in 1971, Russell was one of that body's most respected members. Secretary of State Dean Rusk called him the most powerful and influential man in Washington, D.C., for a period of about twenty years, second only to the president. Russell attained that position of power through his committee assignments—specifically a total of sixteen years as the chair of the Armed Services Committee and a career-long position on the Appropriations Committee. -
Governor race of 1906
White mobs killed dozens of blacks , wounded scores of others , and inflicted considerable property damage. Local newspaper reports of alleged assaults by black males . No white females were the catalyst for the riot. -
1906 Atlanta Riot
The atlanta riot was a mass cicil disturbance in Atlanta,Georgia (USA) , which began the evening of September 22 and lasted until September 24 , 1906 . It was characterized at the time by the Petit Journal and other media outlets as a "racial massacre of negros " -
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.In 1900 while still in his mid-twenties, Ivan Allen cofounded the Atlanta office supply firm later known as the Ivan Allen Company. Through the"Forward Atlanta" campaign of the 1920s and many other activities, Allen became the city's quintessential booster. His son, Ivan Allen Jr., carried on this civic tradition as mayor of Atlanta in the 19 -
Herman Talmadge
Herman Talmadge son of Eugene Talmadge as governor of Georgia for a breif time in early 1947and again in
1956. Talmadge was elected to U.S. senate where he served until his defeate in 1980. -
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Lester Maddox
An american politican who was the 15th governor of the Untied States of Georgia from 1967 to 1971 , A populist democrat . Maddox became tp promihence as a staunch segregationist -
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King was a baptist minister and social activist who played a key role in the american civil rights movement from the mid 1950's until his assination in 1968 . King was awarded the Noble Peace Prize in 1964 and is remembered each year on MLK day since 1986. -
Andrew Young
ANdrew was an american politican diplomst activist and pastor from Georgia . He has served as a congressman for Georgia 5th Congeressional district . The United States ambassador to the United States . -
holocausts
The word “Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Since 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the mass murder of some 6 million European Jews (as well as members of some other persecuted groups, such as Gypsies and homosexuals) by the German Nazi regime during the Second War. -
World War II
The instability created in Europe by the First World War (1914-18) set the stage for another international conflict–World War II–which broke out two decades later and would prove even more devastating. Rising to power in an economically and politically unstable Germany, Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi Party) rearmed the nation and signed strategic treaties with Italy and Japan to further his ambitions of world domination. -
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter
Hamilton is best known for desegregating Georgia's university one of the first two african amendments students admitted to the University of Georgia Holmes was born July 8,1941 in Atlanta. Charlyne Hunter has a place in Georgia civil rights history. -
Pearl Harbor
Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Segregation of the white and negro children in the public schools of a state solely on the pass of race pursuant to state law permitting or requiring such segregation denies to Negro children guranteed by the fourteen amendment. -
Sibley Commison
This committee was charged with gathering state residents sentimeters regarding desegregation and reporting back to the governor . The report is used by the commision lid the foundation for the end of mass lesistance to desegregation. -
Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee
A group of black college students from North Carolina and University refused to leave a wool's worth lunch counter in Greensboro,North Carolina where they had been denied service . This spanked a wave of other sit ins in the college towns across the South. -
The Albany Movement
1st mass movement began in the Modern Civil Rights era to move as it's deal the desegregation of an entire community and it resulted in the jailing of more than 1,000 african americans in Albany and surrounding rural countries -
Atlanta Hawks
A professional basketball team based in Atlanta Georgia. They are part of the southern division of the Eastern confrence in the NBA. They played their first game at Phillips Arena in downtown Atlanta. -
March on Washington
More than 200,000 americans gathered in Washigton D.C. for a political party rally known as the March on Washigton for job and freedom. Organized by a number of civil rights and religous groups the event was designed to see a light on the poltical association. -
Civil Rights Act
This act signed into law by President Lynaon Jackson on July 2 , 1964 . Prohibitted discrimination and public places provided for the interration of schools and other public facilites , made employment discrimination illegal . This document was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since reconstruction . -
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. -
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Jimmy Carter in Georgia
Jimmy was elected president of the United States , held the office for one team . His previous public service included a stint in the U.S navy . He served a 2 year senate term in the Georgia General Assembly . -
Maynord Jackson elected mayor
First Afrtican American to serve as mayor of Southern City . Jackson served 8 years anf then returned for a tghird term in 1990 . A lawyer in the securties field . Jackson remained a highly influenced force in city policies . -
1956 State Flag
The flag peers 3 stripes consisting of red-white-blue and a blue canton coniainin a ring of 13 white stars encompassing the state's coat of arms in gold.Soon after the formation of the Confederate States of America, delegates from the seceded states . Georgia was one of the thirteen original colonies, providing signatories to the Declaration of Independence and the 1787 United States Constitution. Georgia ratified the Constitution on January 2, 1788, becoming the third state to do so. -
Worcester v. Georgia
Was a case in which the United States Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel W\orcester. This held the Georgia State Criminal Statue. That staute prohibited non-Native Americans. Native American lands without a license from the state was unconstituional. -
County Unit System
was a voting system used by the U.S senate of GEorgia to determine a victor in statewide primary elections from 1917 until 1962. -
Atlanta Braves
ranking aside, this year’s draft class has even more difficult than usual to evaluate, as Baseball America’s John Manuel writes. Several of the top prospects have thin or unconventional track records, while others have seen their draft stock drop due to injuries.
