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British Government Authorize establishment of Georgia colony
King George II authorized the request of James Oglethorpe and twenty other men to set up the new colony after some revisions were made. Georgia would be a colony for "deserving poor". He and other Trustees This was important for the formation of the Georgia as one of the thirteenth colonies. -
Colonist Land in Savannah
Ogelthorpe and his colonist start laying out towns and constructing Savannah's first houses.Families were assigned sixty by ninety lots for their homes and five-acre garden and farm lots. -
War of Jenkins
The conflict between the Spanish and English over the land between South Carolina and Florida lasted for nearly two centuries, but once formal hostilities began in 1739 the survival of the colony was unsure. Georgia was eventually preserved as an English colony. -
Battle of Bloody Marsh
English and Spanish forces fought on St. Simons Island and this was the only time Spanish attempted to invade Georgia during the War of Jenkins. The English emerged victoriously. This redeemed general Ogethorpe and the English rallied to preserve Georgia. -
First Continental Congress meets in Penn. PA
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Georgia Delegates gather in Savannah
Georgia delegates met to discuss whether to join the Association, which lead a ban on trade with Britain, and to elect representatives to the Second Continental Congress. Those who were elected declined to go to Philadelphia, however, because the delegates were divided on the action to be taken. -
Oconee War
Hoping to satisfy the white greed for land some of Cherokee and Creek Indians were willing to give up the area along their eastern borders.However, whites started moving in before the land was surveyed and beyond the land the Indians were willing to give up. This aggrivated the Indians, so Creeks launch a series of raids -
Treaty of New York
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Invention of Cotton Gin
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Yazoo Land Fraud
Once Georgia lands became profitable and gold had been found many solicitors wanted to buy the western territories of Georgia. Fraud played a role in these sales as many in office took bribes for the sale of these lands. -
Beginning of Georgia Land Lottery
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Red Eagles attack Fort Mins
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Treaty of Fort Jackson
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First Seminole war
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US Senate Ratified the Treaty of New Echota
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General Winfield Scott arrived at Cherokee Nation
Scott and five thousand troop arrive to remove the Indians from Cherokee land and relocate them to the new Indian territory. They were rounded up like cattle and by fall almost all of the Cherokees had begun the long journey to the Indian territory. -
Georgia Secedes from the Union
Georgia's secession from the Union followed nearly two decades of increasingly intense sectional conflict over the status of slavery in western territories and over the future of slavery in the United States. The secession of southern states hastened the outbreak of the Civil War (1861-65). -
President Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation
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Battle Of Chicamauga
Union and Confederate forces were struggling over control of the key railroad center of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Union General William Rosecrans had pushed Braxton Bragg’s Army of Tennessee out of Chattanooga and gathered his army of some 60,000 at Chickamauga, Georgia, located 12 miles southwest of Chattanooga. -
Sherman captures Atlanta
Sherman’s goal was to destroy the Army of the Tennessee, capture Atlanta and cut off vital Confederate supply lines. While Sherman failed to destroy his enemy, he was able to force the surrender of Atlanta in September 1864, boosting Northern morale and greatly improving President Abraham Lincoln’s re-election bid. With Atlanta under Union control, Sherman embarked on his March to the Sea, which laid waste to the countryside and hastened the Confederacy’s defeat. -
Sherman's March to the Sea
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Freedmen's Bureau
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Georgia's Constitution rewritten
The Constitution of 1865 was similar to the one of 1861. It continued the bill of rights and made no significant changes to the legislature. But it prohibited slavery and limited the governor to two terms. In a move to provide for further separation of the judicial and executive branches, the Constitution of 1865 provided that judges of all courts—except supreme court and superior court judges, who were selected by the legislature—would be elected by the people. -
Johnson's Plan of Reconstruction
Johnson's plan called for the pardons to former Confederates, the rewriting of the states constitution, repudiation of the state's Confederate debt, and nullification of the Ordinance of Secession. -
Ku Klux Klan Formed in Us
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First Reconstruction Act passed
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1867 Registration Boards meet/ elections
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Granger Organization formed
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Ku Klux Klan arrive in Georgia
The Georgia Klan was responsible for countless crimes with most of their actions being designed to intimidate black and Republican voters.Republican leaders, candidates, and voters were intimidated and attacked at the poles. Members also rode at night to intimidate African Americans in the state. -
First Local Granger formed in Georgia
National Grange of the Partons of Husbands was an organization formed to assist farmers and lobby Congress for farm-friendly legislation, operated crop-reporting services, organized social activities, and tried to create cooperative exchanges. -
Jim Crow law passed
These laws legalized and institutionalized segregation, but could also be implemented locally through ordinances or practices and customs without legislation. -
Booker T Washington's "Atlanta Compromise" speech
Booker T. Washington spoke before a predominantly white audience at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta. His “Atlanta Compromise" was one of the most important and influential speeches in American history. Although the organizers of the exposition worried that “public sentiment was not prepared for such an advanced step,” they decided that inviting a black speaker would impress Northern visitors with the evidence of racial progress in the South. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
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Amendment to Georgia's Constitution
This amendment is what has been known as the Disenfranchisement Amendment. It was a way of keeping blacks from voting, but still abiding by the law. The grandfather clause was one requirement to this amendment. It allowed potential white voters to circumvent literacy tests, poll taxes, and other tactics designed to disenfranchise Southern blacks following the American Civil War. -
NAAPC founded by W.E.B. DuBois
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Atlanta establishes segregated residential patterns
Atlanta established segregated residential patterns when it issued an ordinance segregating white and black neighborhoods. Residents could legally object if a family of a different race moved into the neighborhood. Ironically, the first cased tried under the ordinance was a white family that had moved into a black neighborhood. -
Buchman v. Warley Supreme Court outlaws residential segregation patterns
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Georgia Women's Suffrage amendment passed
Guaranteeing women the right to vote, the 19th Amendment was ratified by Tennessee, giving it the two-thirds majority of state ratification necessary to make it the law of the land. The amendment was the culmination of more than 70 years of struggle by woman suffragists. -
Women won the right to vote
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Georgia economy began to decline
Georgia's economy began to suffer even before the market crashed causing the Great Depression. Cotton prices had begun to decline. After WWI the demand for US agriculture products ended and those states whose economy was largely agriculture began to experience a decline. -
Women cast first vote in Georgia
Georgia didn't let women vote in the November 1920 election even though the 19th amendment had been ratified. The state required that voters be registered for six months before they were eligible to cast their vote, so women had to wait until 1922 to cast state and national elections. -
Roosevelt created Warm Springs Foundation
Roosevelt had started visiting Georgia after he learned about Warm Springs. He had contracted polio and the spring constant 88-degree pool soothed his aching legs. -
Stocks began to decline
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Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated/ New Deal Implemented
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Georgia led nation in REA cooperatives
Most of rural Georgia was without electricity until the Rural Electrification Administration provided significant relief to the state's residents. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Overturned the "separate but equal" act of the Plessy v. Ferguson case. -
Brown II
Becuase the courts did not set a timeline in the Brown v. BOE Southern states did not willingly comply. In Brown II, the Supreme Court stated compliance had to be done 'with deliberate speed in the Brown v. Board of Education. -
Atlanta Declaration issued by NAACP
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Interposition Resolution
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Calhoun v. Latimer
Twenty-eight parents sued the Atlanta School Board to desegregate its schools. In 1959, a federal judge ordered a desegregation plan be presented by December of that year. -
Sit-ins Began in Greensboro N.C
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Martin L. King sit-in at Riches Department Store
After many sit-ins had taken place around the state of Georgia, student leaders were able to convince Martin Luther King to participate. He and fifty others were arrested for trespassing. More than two thousand protesters came out the next day. -
Atlanta schools desegregated
After the Civil rights movement and much resistance among politicians in Georgia, the schools were finally desegregated allowing white and black students to attend the same school for the first time. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race in hiring, promoting, and firing. The word "sex" was added at the last moment.