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Georgia was founded by many colonists including James Oglethorpe. The Georgia Colony was named after King George II of England, as specified by the king himself in the charter granting the colony.
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James Oglethorpe and a party of settlers crossed the Atlantic Ocean in the ship Anne to begin settlement of the colony of Georgia. They first arrived off the coast of Carolina, and then negotiated permission to settle from Yuma craw Chief Tom chichi.
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A group of German Salzburgers arrived in the colony of Georgia. They were led by Pastor Johann Martin Boltzius, and established the settlement of Ebenezer.
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A group of German Salzburgers arrived in the colony of Georgia. They were led by Pastor Johann Martin Boltzius, and established the settlement of Ebenezer
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James Oglethorpe led an invasion force of Georgia and South Carolina settlers, and some Indians, to attempt to capture Spanish St. Augustine. They captured one fort, and then tried to lay siege to St. Augustine before being attacked at Fort Mose.
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In April, the Georgia Trustees divided the colony into two counties - Savannah, consisting of all settlements on the Ogeechee River north to the Savannah River
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William Stephens was named president of the entire colony of Georgia; James Oglethorpe was still primarily focused on the defense of the colony during the war with Spain.
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The colony of Georgia struggled to find a viable, money making crop over the next few years, and gradually declined under the leadership of the Trustees.
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John Percival, the Earl of Egmont, member of and chronicler of the Georgia Board of Trustees in England died. England and Spain signed the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle which ended the War of Jenkins’ Ear, but left the Georgia/Florida boundary to be settled.
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The Colony became a state on January 2, 1788.
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• January 1 - United States bans all importation of slaves.
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The Creek Indian War - At the start of the 1500's the Creeks occupied nearly all of southeast United States. Their defeat at the battle in Lumpkin County near Slaughter Gap forced them farther and farther West
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gold was discoverd in Georgia
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the Second Greek war occurred in
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The Cherokee and creek Indians removed from the state
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. In 1859 Out-break of the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln, a known opponent of slavery, was elected president and in 1861 the South Secedes. The initial Secession of South Carolina was followed by the secession of Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. These eleven states eventually formed the Confederate States of America. The bombardment of Fort Sumter was the opening engagement of the American Civil War
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The surrender of Robert E. Lee on April 9 1865 signaled the end of the Confederacy.
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December 6 the Abolishment of Slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified, thus
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The Spanish American War. On December 10, 1898 the Treaty of Paris the US annexes Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines.
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The boll weevil destroys much of Georgia's crops.
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Rebecca Felton became the first woman U.S. Senator from Georgia.
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Georgia became the first state to allow 18-year-olds to vote.
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Black children attended all-white schools in Georgia for the first time.
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Georgia abolished its county-unit voting system and reapportioned its senatorial districts.
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Maynard H. Jackson, Jr., was elected mayor of Atlanta, and became the first black mayor of a major Southern city.
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Former Georgia Governor James Earl Carter was elected President of the United States.
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Georgia governor Jimmy Carter becomes President of the United States.
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January 24 - approximately 20,000 protesters march through Cummings, Georgia in all White Forsyth County.
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Jack Ellis is still the first black mayor after years of ofice
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