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Jan 1, 1000
Paleo
There is evidence that states that an ancient civilization, know as the Paleo Indians, existed more than 12000 years ago. They hunted large animals such as bison, moammoths, ground sloths, and saber tooth tigers. Their weapons were made to kill these certan animal, so they needed big, thick spearheads. No one knows their exact time span, so people don't know exactly how long they lived. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland
The woodland people were a little more advanced than the paleo and archaic people. They used bows and arrows, small spears. traps, and fished to get their food. They also started harvasting crops to eat too. The woodland people also liked pottery and making things by hand. -
Jan 1, 1000
Archaic
The Archaic Indians, another ancient civilization, that lasted from 8000 bc to 1000 bc. They have lived for about 7000 years. Archaic Indians didn't hunt large animals because they were becoming endangered, so they adapted by gathering barries, nuts, ate fish, deer, turkey, and bear. Their weapons also adapted with them, they needed smaller spearheads for the smaller game. -
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Mississippian
The Mississippian indians were the longest living indians found in Georgia in prehistoric times. All the things the other indians did; Paleo, Archaic, Woodland; the Mississippian indians learned how to do it and make it better. When you think of indians these are usually the type of indians you think of. Them being the most advanced indian group helped them live as long as they did. -
Mar 1, 1540
Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto came to Geprgia in the search of gold. He spred diseases and captured the natives in Georgia which killed them. He died on his journey without finding any gold. He and his men are still famous though because they are the first to ever have written history on indians. -
Charter issued by King George II
A charter is a legal document that grants special rights and priviledges. The charter of 1732 was to grant all lands between the Savannah and Altamaha rive to Jame Oglethorpe. Oglethorpe wanted this land so he could find his new colony of Georgia. -
Georgai founded by James Oglethorpe
He made the colony of Georgia as a charity, for its economic potential, and for defense. The colony was for debtors to get a new chance because Oglethorpe had a friend who was a debtor and died in jail because of it. The economic purposes of Georgia were to find resources that they get from other countries so they don't have to pay for those goods. Georgia was also founded to protect the colony of the Carolinas from the Spanish in the south and the French in the west. -
Highland Scots arrive
The Highland Scots were brought in because they are warriors. They were big strong brutes so it made them perfect for the job to protect Georgians. They were there to protect Georgia and the Carolinas from Spanish Florida and the French in the west. They founded Darrien but called it New Verness. -
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John Reynolds
John Revnolds was the worst royal governor out of the three royal governors there was in Georgia. John Rvnolds didn't really help the people of Georgia. There was a lot of problems he had so people didn't like him. He was kicked out of his position as royal governor. -
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Henry Ellis
Known as the second founder of Georgia. He tought Georgains how to govern themselves. he has friendship with Creek Nation. Poor health forced him out. -
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James Wright
He was a popular governor. He helped try to keep down the revolution after it stated. He encouraged frontier settlement. When he enforced the stamp act it started the revolution in Georgia. -
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American Revolution
There was four reasons for the American Revolution. The French and Indian war was one of them, and it was between the French and the British. -
Elijah Clarke and the Battle of Kettle Creek
Elijah Clarke led the union troops in the Battle of Kettle Creek. He went against an army of about 800 british solders. When they won the battle they took needed supplies for their troops. After that battle the spirits of Georgia's troops were raised. -
Austin Dabney
Austin Dabney was a free mulatto. He was a man mixed with white and black, but he was still classified as afican american. He was the first african american that was allowed to fight in battle from Georgia. He recieved land in madison county for his service in the Georgia military. -
Articles of confederation ratified by all 13 states
The articles of confederation were ratified for many reasons. The states governments had too much power, so the national government couldn't enforce taxes, laws, or control trade. There was no executive branch to do any of this, but they didn't want the executive branch to be like a king. There was also no judicial branch which ment no there was no federal courts to settle disputes between states. -
University of Georgia established
First state supported university in the US. Athens, Georgia named after the center of learning Athens Greece. Abraham Baldwin was the first president of the university. -
Constitutional convention of 1787
There were three major reasons for the constitution convention of 1787. The great compromises that would benefits both big and small states one of them is a bicameral legislative. There was also a 3/5 system that ment that every 3 out of 5 slaves would be added to the population of a state and they were also taxed. The last compromise was the bill of rights it was the first ten amendiments to the constitution guarantears rights for citizens. -
Georgia ratifies US constitution
Abraham Baldwin and William Few wereGeorgia's reps. who signed the the constitution. Georfia ratified for selfish reasons on Hanuary 2, 1788. Georgians needed federal government to help fight natives so they can move west. They also wanted the federal government to have more power to unite the country. -
Invention of the Cotten Gin
The cotton gin was an invention that could separate cotton from seeds very quickly. Before this invention people ussed their hands to separate the seeds, now they have the cotton gin. 50lb of cotton was then being produced. With the production increasing Georgia's growth people were then starting to rely heavily on slave labor. -
Fugitive slave law
The fugitive slave law was that any slave that ran away would have to be brought back to their slave owner by law. Slaves still tried to ran away but some of them were sent back to their owner because of this law. Some people didn't bring the slaves back some paeople that did this were caught but some weren't and continued to help slaves run. People that were caught were punished in some way and then the slave were brought back to their owners. -
Yazoo land Fraud
Four land companies bribed the legisltive so they could give the western land to them. The land companies bought between 35 to 50 million acres for $500,000 ,thats $0.01 per acre. The legislators were voted out of office and Georgia paid penaltys and lost land. -
Georgia's capital moved to Louisville
Savannah and Augusta were the 1st two capitals. The reason for the moving of capitals is because they wanted it in a centeral geographic and population wis location. Named after King louis the XIV of France. He was a war friend. -
Missouri Compromise
The purpose of this was to maintain the balance between free and slave states. It started to divide the nation. There was a line that separated the north and south (free and slave states) located at 36'30. -
Worchester vs. GA
All whites living on cherokee land were reguired to take an allegance to the governor. Missionaries refused, including Samuel Worchester, and were jailed. They took the case to the supreme court and they ruled on favor of Worchester. The president and governor refused to enforce the rulling. Eventually they all signed the allegance. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
Gold was found in Dahlonega in the summer of 1829. the Cherokee were the people who were affected by this the most though. The Cherokee were losing their homes, land, and lefal rights because of this gold rush. Because of that the Cherokee can be hurt or killed by whit men and not do anything about it, in a court of law. -
Indian removal act
There was trade exsting land in the states for unsettled land west of the mississippi. People wanted this land, because they found gold, but some of that land was owned by indians. They were making the indians leave their lands. -
Trail of tears
This trail is a trail that indians took when they were forced to leave their homes. The trial is named this because of all the tears they shed when they were moving. Some of the indians died on the way to the indian reserve that the government gave them. Not all the indians acceppted them being forced to leave. -
Compromise of 1850
The compromis of 1850 was about the north and south arguing about California becoming a free state or a slave state. -
Kansas - Nebraska Act
Kansas and Nebraska just became states and free and slave states didn't know what to do with them. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was a slave in a free state. He thought that he could go to the court and sue his owner, but he couldn't. The court said because he was an african american he had no rights and he still wasn't a citizen. -
Election of 1860
In this election Lincon won. -
Georgia Secedes from the Union
Georgia secedes from the union. -
Union blockade
This is when some union ships went around the south's sea ports and blocked off their supplies. -
Antietum
It was the fiercest one day battle of the civil war. -
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Gettysburg
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Chickamauga
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Andersonville
Andersonville was a war prison and was one of the worst. -
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Sherman's Marche to the Sea
Sherman and his men went from Atlanta to Savannah and burned everything in their path. -
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Jim Crow Laws
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International cotton expo
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Plessy vs Ferguson
Plessy was testing the "seperate but equal" law by sitting in a white only section of a train. -
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1906 Atlanta Riot
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Leo Frank case
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WWI
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County Uion System
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Rebecca L Felton
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Black Tuesday
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Great Depression
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Roosevelt's New Deal
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Holocaust
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FDR Elcted
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Maynard Jackson
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WWII
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Pearl Harbor Attacked
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FDR Dies in Warm Springs
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Brown vs Board of Education
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1956 State Flag
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Sibley Commission
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First African American Students at UGA
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Albany Movement
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March on Washington
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Jimmy Carter President
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1996 Summer Olympics
