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Proclamation
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, -
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Union Blockade of Georgia
The battle between ship and shore on the coast of Confederate Georgia was a pivotal part of the Union strategy to subdue the state during the Civil War -
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International Cotton Exposition
International Cotton Exposition (I.C.E) was a world's fair held in Atlanta, Georgia. -
Henry Grady
Henry W. Grady, the "Spokesman of the New South," served as managing editor for the Atlanta Constitution in the 1880s. -
Rural
In general, a rural area or countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. -
Alonzo Herndon
Alonzo Herndon was a African American entrepreneur businessman. -
1906 Atlanta Riot
During the Atlanta race riot, white mobs killed dozens of blacks, wounded scores of others, and inflicted considerable property damage. -
WEB DuBois
W.E.B. Du Bois was one of the most important African-American activists during the first half of the 20th century. -
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World War 1
World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. -
Booker T. Washington
Educator Booker T. Washington was one of the foremost African-American leaders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. -
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County Unit System
The county unit system was established in 1917 when the Georgia legislature, overwhelmingly dominated by the Democratic Party, passed the Neill Primary Act. -
Tom Watson and the Populists
The public life of Thomas E. Watson is perhaps one of the more perplexing and controversial among Georgia politicians. -
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, originating in the United States. -
Agricultural Adjustment Act
The New Deal was a series of federal programs, public work projects. -
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Holocaust
The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany. -
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men. -
Richard Russell
Richard Brevard Russell Jr. was an American politician from Georgia. -
Eugene Talmadge
Eugene Talmadge was a Democratic politician who served two terms as the 67th Governor of Georgia from 1933 to 1937, and a third term from 1941 to 1943. -
Carl Vinson
USS Carl Vinson is the United States Navy's third Nimitz-class supercarrier and named for Carl Vinson. -
Social Security
The United States Social Security Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that administers Social Security. -
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World War II
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war. -
Lend-Lease Act
Proposed in late 1940 and passed in March 1941, the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor. -
Leo Frank Case
The Leo Frank case is one of the most notorious and highly publicized cases in the legal annals of Georgia. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
The statute of Louisiana, acts of 1890, c. 111, requiring railway companies carrying passengers in their coaches in that State, to provide equal, but separate.
