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Jan 1, 1000
Paleo
The Paleo hunted and ate large animals. They ate mammoth, bison, sloth, and the salber tooth tiger. The tool they used was spears and they were made of arrowheads and animal skins. The Paleo existed 12,000 years ago. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland
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Jan 1, 1000
Archaic
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Period: Jan 1, 1000 to
Mississippian
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Mar 1, 1540
Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto enters Georgia in search of gold. He died on a journey, he didnt find any gold. Spread of dieseases killed thousonds of natives no immunity. Captures and killes many natives making then resentful of future explorers. -
The charter of 1732 issued by King George II
A legal document that grants special lights and privileges. The charter said, King George II here by grant all lands between the savannah and Altimaha River extending west to the South Seas to James Ogethorpe and the Trustees. Trustees could not pass laws without king's permission. -
Highland Scotts
They arrived in Georgia on the Altima river. Recruted by the trustees because of their military qualities. They were in Georgia to protect. The trustees were sucessful. -
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John Reynolds
He was the first governor. He was a very weak governor. He was resisted challenges to authority. Captain of british navy. -
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Henery Ellis
Georgia's second royal governor. He was first to develop countries in Georgia develop a friendship with the creek nation. He was the second founder of Georgia. -
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James Wright
He was third royal governor. He helped keep down revolution after it started. He encouraged frontier settlement. Fled Georgia in 1776, but returned in 1779 to Savannah. -
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American Revolution
There were 4 causes of the American Revolution. A 9 year war between France and Britain. Law by British prohibiting settlement in the west. colonist could not hold public meetings fighting started even before it was unproved. -
Elijah Clark & the battle of Kettle Creek
Led the troops at Kettle Creek. Defeated a group of 800 british soldiers. End result: patriots took needed weapons and horses, and raised the spirits of the Georgia Milita. -
Austin Dabney
He was a freedom Mulatto. Mullatoo= a person of mixed paventage english partnerand African pavent. First non-white to fight in the revolution of Georgia. -
Aritcels of Confederation ratified by all 13 states
State goverment had too much power. National government could not levy taxes enforces laws or controls trade. No executive branch. No judicial branch (no federal courts to sellte disputes between the states) -
Constitution Convection of 1787
Great compromise: Bi-cameral legislature benefits both big and small states. 3/5ths compromise: 3 out of 5 slaves counted toward population and were also taxed. Bill of rights: first ten amendments to the constution guarenteeing rights of citizens. -
Invention of the Cotton Gin
A machine that could separate cotton from seeds very quickly. Before hundreds of men hours to clean cotton. After 50 pounds of clean cotton daily demanded double every decade. With production increasing, Georgia began to rely heavily on slave labor. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
When native americans surrendered their rights to the land. The state government could give the land to its citizens. The most widely know land fraud in U.S. history. Land companies formed to buy large pieces of land in Western Georgia and Alabama along the yazoo river. -
Louisville
Savannah and Augusta served as the first two captains. Reasons moving to a more central location geographly and population wise. King Louis XVI from France was a war ally. -
Dahlonega gold rush
Gold was discovered in Dahlonega in the summer of 1829. Single event that sped up indian removal. an effect on the Cherokee to speak against a white man. Cherokee laws null and void land now under state control. -
Trail of Tears
Many indians died the first summer from diseases and starvation. Some Cherokee arrived and hid in the North Carolina mtns. Rest rounded up and moved out west. -
Compromise of 1850
The comp. of 1850 was passed by congress. The south was mad about California but got slave law. The north had one more state than a slave state. -
Kanas Neb. Act
This act brought bloody fights b/w proslavery 7 free soil groups. The outh was happy, opened up teritorys to vote on slavery . The north was not happy. Opened uo new territorys to slavery. -
Dred Scot Case
The supreme court ruled that Scot wouldnt sue because he was a slave and slaves were not citizens. He was taken by his owner from the slave states of missouri to the first state of Illinious happy. The south was happy. -
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Gettysburg
the battle of Gettysburg in Pensilvania was a turning point in the Civil War. The battle was fought July 1-3 1863, and resulted in the union Victory that ended General robert E. Lee's second in rasion of the north. -
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Chickamauga
In the late 1863, Union forces moved against the major confederate railroad center in chatanooga, Tennessee. -
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March to the Sea
The most destructive campaign against a civillian population durring the civil war. Began in Atlanta. Concluded in Savannah. -
Antietam
The battle of Antietum was the Army of Northern vergina's first invasion into the north. antietum creek is a stream located near a town called sharpsburg, maryland. This was the bloodiest one day battle. -
13th amendment
This freed all slaves. Made all slavery legal formally slavery in the United Staes, the 13th amendment was passes by the congress on january 31, 1856. Ratified by by the state on Deceber 6, 1856. -
14TH AMMENDMENT
Granted citizenship to the freedom and forbade any state from denying anyone the "equal protection of the law." Congress passed the ammendent in June 1866, and it was ratified in July 1869. -
15th Amendment
Granted all males citizens the right to vote regardles of "race, color, or previous conditions of servitude. The ammendment was submitted to the states in Febuary 1869 and ratified in Febuary 1870. -
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Great Depression
It was the deepest and longest lasting ecomic down turn in the history of the western industrialized depression began soon after the stock market crash of october 1929. When the great depression reached its nadir. -
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Mayor hartsfield
There are 2 time spans 1937-1941 and 1942- 1961. He was Mayor of Atlanta longer than anyother peope. He was born in Atlanta in 1890 and began his long pothcal career on the city council in Hapeville for a landing field in 1925. The beggining of his promotion of commercial avation. Hartsfield became mayor in1936 and served a total of 23 years. -
World War II
This war had more than 30 countries in it. More than 50 million military and civilian deaths with some estimates as high as 85 million dead. The war would drag on for six deadly years until the final Allied deaths of both Nazi, Germany, and Japan in 1954. -
pearl harbor
Japenese fighters planes attacked the U.S base at Pearl Harbor, Hawiaii launching one of the deadliest attacks in American history. The assult, which lasted less than 2 hours, claimed the lives more than 25,000 people wounded 1,000 more & damaged or destoryed 18 american ships and nearly 300 airplanes. -
Holocaust
The Holocaust was the attempt by the German to get rid of an "inferior races." Hitler came th power in 1933. Holocuast continued until 1945. There were 5 million non-Jewish people. The first victims were people with diabieties. The holocaust was hidden from the allied powers until the end of the war. -
Brown vs. board of education
The Untied States supreme court handed down its ruling in the landmark case of Brown vs. board of education of Topecka Kansas. It ended legal segregation in public schools, its one of hope and courage. When the people agreed to be planfifffs in the case. -
1956 state flag
Georgia's state flaf was changed to incorporate the st. andrew's cross a confederate battle emblem. The flag has long been a subject of controversy and dision within the state. african americans were affnded by references to the slavery in the states past. -
Salz Burgers
they were followers of Martin Luther. New Ebanezer became thier settlement. They would fall under charity but thet werent poor.
