Atlanta

Darrion Chatman Timeline

  • Headright system

    sold cheap land for way more than it cost , cheated people out of acres of land.alot of people moved away from the area because they were scared to et cheated out of there land.not many people ived in that area.They were used by the Virginia Company to attract more colonists. caused massive immigration.
  • Universty of Georgia

    Universty of Georgia
    university of georgia was important because there was lots of churches near and they stayed and lived in georgia becasuse geogia had both a university and churches
  • Louisville university

    Louisville university
    the establishment of a state university system. Reasoning that the new nation required an educated people, the state mandated that lands be surveyed to support such an institution in 1784. Less than a year later, January 27, 1785, the state made history by chartering the University of Georgia.
  • Cotton gin

    Cotton gin
    cotton gin: when the cotton gin came out slave popoulation increased because of allof the buisness with the cotton gin A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.[2] The fibers are processed into clothing or other cotton goods, and any undamaged seeds may be used to grow more cotton or to produce cottonseed oil and meal.
  • Yazoo land fraud

    Yazoo land fraud
    owning free land made the colonist mad. cost them over 1000 acres of land so the colonist did something about it which was bring the price up more for the land
  • land lottery

    land lottery
    sold land wether or not anyone lived on it for example the trailof tears , made all the native amercans move from there homes so they could sell the land
  • Railroad

    Railroad
    Rail transport is a means of conveyance of passengers and goods, by way of wheeled vehicles running on rails. It is also commonly referred to as train transport
  • Baptist methodist church

    Baptist methodist church
    The Southern Baptist Convention, now the largest Protestant group in America, organizes in Augusta, Georgia.
    “ to form plans for the revival of religion, to promote uniformity in sentiment, practice, and discipline, to augment the number of pious, intelligent, and laborious ministers, to act in unison with the Christians of other denominations on the general