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By 2bdbrady
  • Period: 15,000 BCE to 8000 BCE

    Paleo

    The paleo era is when the initial human settlements of Georgia took place. It is when humans first started to inhabit Georgia.
  • Period: 8000 BCE to 2000 BCE

    Archaic

    It means earliest periods of culture. Economies were supported through the exploitation of nuts, seeds, and shellfish.
  • Period: 1000 BCE to Oct 19, 900

    Woodland

    Tells what they invented for use in cooking. the ways and trends of how they lived.
  • Period: 900 BCE to 1600 BCE

    Mississippian

    is when the most complex societies were created. how they lived and their ancestors.
  • Oct 19, 1514

    Hernando de soto

    He led the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern day United States. He was also the first European to cross the Mississippi river.

  • Georgia Founded

    The largest of the U.S states east of the Mississippi river.
    January 2, 1788 is when it got it's statehood.

  • Charter of 1732

    The first twenty years of Georgia history are referred to as Trustee Georgia because during that time a Board of Trustees governed the colony. England's King signed a charter on April 21, 1732.

  • Salzburgers

    A group of German-speaking Protestant people founded Ebenezer. Arriving in 1734, the group received support from King George II of England

  • Highland Scots

    In 1739 Gabriel Johnston encouraged 360 Highland Scots to settle in North Carolina.
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    John Reynolds

    a captain in the British royal navy. He served as Georgia's first royal governor from late 1754 to early 1757.
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    Henry Ellis

    the second royal governor of Georgia and the first royal governor.
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    James Wright

    James Wright was the third and last royal governor of Georgia.Wright was born in London, England, on May 8, 1716.
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    American Revolution

    Is also known as the U.S. War of Independence. It's growing tensions between residents of Great Britain’s 13 North American colonies and the colonial government.

  • The Battle of Kettle Creek

    At the same time 340 South Carolina and Georgia soldiers were preparing to attack Boyd's camp at Kettle Creek.

  • Austin dabney

    Austin Dabney was a slave who became a private in the Georgia military. He was the only African American to be granted land by the state of Georgia.

  • Georgia Ratifies Constitution

    Georgia elected six delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. Only four went. And only two Abraham Baldwin and William Few signed the final document.

  • Constitutional Convention of 1877

    The Georgia Constitutional Convention of 1877 created the state's seventh constitution. This document included many of the provisions of the Constitution of 1868, but it succeeded in changing the power of the legislature and the state's power to tax.