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Jan 1, 1000
Paleo Culture
The Palo Culture exsisted 12,000 years ago. The paleo indians ate big animals like mammoth and tigers. They would haunt there food they had to blend in an sneek up and kill the animals that they were haunting. -
Jan 1, 1000
Archaic Culture
Archaic Indians would make there pottery. They had to haunt their own food. They would gather shelter for their home and for fire's. that is how they lived. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland Culture
The Woodland would make their own houses. They would have to haunt their own food. They had weapons that they had made. They would have their own tribes. -
Period: Jan 1, 1000 to
Mississippian Culture
The MIssissippian culture was near the mississippi river. They would make their own weapons and would haunt their own food. Mississippian time was a native american culture. -
Mar 5, 1540
Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto was looking for gold. He was the first to find the Mississippi River. He killed many (thousands) native americans. Making them resentful of future explores. He died of a fever of March 21 of 1542. -
Georgia founder James Oglethorpe
He was born in 1696. He became a member of the British paliament in 1722. A few leaders thought that creations dentors colony misnt solve these promblems. He was known for his kind deeds. He argued for prison reform and spoke out against the slavery. -
Charater of 1732
The charater had 6,000 thousand words and many limits. A charater is a legal document that grants special rights. Issue by King George, the charater established Georgia between the Savannah and Altamaha Rivers. The charater excluded catholics, blacks, and lawyers and outlawed liquor. According to the charater, trustees could not pass laws without the king's permission. -
Arrival of the Salzburgers
The salzburgers arrived from Austria for religious reasons. They were being persucated by the catholics in Europe. James Oglethorpe provided them with land they named it Ebenver. they moved because the land was not good,and named it New Ebenver. -
Highland Scots
The Highland Scots were recruited by James Oglethorpe to help the new colony from the spanish. They were from Scotland and were considerd to be great warriors. The Scots were big and strong and were not afraid of anything. They settled in a city they would name Darrien. -
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Henery Ellis
The second royal governor. Greeted by people hoping he's better than the last. Cultivated the friendship of the heads of the creek nation. Quieted the vicious factonalism that had wracked the Reynolds adminstration poor health forced Ellis to leave Georgia in November 1760. -
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Jhon Reynolds
He was the first governor, former naval capatian. Reynolds returned to England in 1751. He established a structure of royal govermment. He was very bossy and resisted any challange to his authority. Adminstration created great distress for Georgia. It gave the colony a negative image. -
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James Wright
He was the third and last royal governor of Georgia. He was popular able minstarter and servant of the crown. He played a key role in returning the flame of revolution in Georgia. Long after it had flared violently in every other colony. -
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The Yazoo Land Fraud
It was one of the mst significant in the post Revolutionary War. Georgia was to weak after the revolution to defend its vast western land claims, called the "Yazoo lands"
James Jackson, a U.S. senator from Georgia, destroys records connected with the Yazoo land fraud in 1796, after the passage of the Yazoo Rescinding Act. Josiah Tattnall Sr., a state representative, helped Jackson secure the votes necessary in the legislature to pass the act.
James Jackson and the Yazoo Land Fraud
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American Revolution
French an Indian war was a nine year war between the French an British. Proclamation of 1763 was anfered the colonist that they were being taxed again. Intolerable Acts were four laws enacted by britian to punish the colonist fot the Boston tea party. Declaration of Indapendence was a document stating the reason that the colonist were upset with the english. -
Elijah Clarke and the battle of Kettle Creek
Led the troops at Kettle Creek. Defeated a group of 800 British soldiers. February of 1779. Elijah Clarke= Clarke County (Athens). The end result was patriots took needed weapons an horses and raised the spirts of the Georgia militia. -
Austin Dabney
Austin Dabney was a freeborn mulatto. He was the first non-white (black) to fight in the Revolution from Georgia (injured in battle). A mulatto is a person with mixed parentage (english parent and mixed parent).Also recieved land in Madison County for his service in the Georgia militia. -
University Of Georgia
the first public state supported university in the U.S. Esatablushed by the General Assembly. Brought economic development and more people to the area. The city of Athens was formed after the university was established and named after the Athens. Greece for being the educational center of Georgia. -
Invention of the cotton gin
The invention of the cotton gin was to make the job easier to those who worked at the gin. It was invented by Eli Whitney it was a machine to seperate the cotton seeds from the cotton plant. Before it, it would take hundred of hours to seperate seeds from the fibers. -
Missouri Compromise
The purpose to keep the number of free and slave states equal. A line 36 ' 30 (latitude line) to show the border between free and slave states. North would be free, while south was slaves. Missouri equaled the slave state while maine equaled the free state. -
Dahlonega gold rush
Gold was found in the North Georgia in the summer of 1829. Benjamin Parks was said to have discovered gold near Dahlonega over 10,000 miners flocked to Georgia a songle event that spread up the removal of the Cherokee from Georgia. -
Indian Removal Act
All nations that lived in existing states could trade land for land west.Eventually federal troops were sent to round upall cherokee that ref. Was a law that waas passe dduring the presidency of Andrew Jackson. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 attempted to keep the states together. It was passed by the congress. California, by its own choice, would be a free state. New Mexico and Utah territories would decide for themselves about slavery. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
It allowed Kansas and Nebraska to vote on slavery. The north side was not happy because slavery was moving. The south was not happy, because people can vote on slavery. Bloody fights broke out between pro slavery and free soll groups -
Antietam
Northern and Southern armies collided here. It was the bloodiest one-day battle of the civil war. It gave Abraham Lincoln the opportunity to issue the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamatiom. After pursuing Confederate General Robert E. Lee into Maryland, Union Army Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan launched attacks against Lee's army, in defensive positions behind Antietam Creek. At dawn on September 17, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's corps mounted a powerful assault on Lee's left flank. -
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Gettysburg
It was a turning point in the civil war. The Union Victory at the battle Gettysburg resulted in Lee's retreat to Virginia and ended the hopes of the condfederacy for Victory. -
March on Washington
As blacks faced continuing discrimination in the postwar years, the March on Washington group met annually to reiterate blacks’ demands for economic equality. The civil rights movement of the 1960s transformed the political climate, and in 1963, black leaders began to plan a new March on Washington, designed specifically to advocate passage of the Civil Rights Act then stalled in Congress. The march was an unprecedented success. -
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Sherman's March to the Sea
Sherman's March to the Sea is the name commonly given to the military Savannah Campaign in the American Civil War, conducted through Georgia. The campaign began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia, on November 15 and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21. His forces destroyed military targets as well as industry, infrastructure, and civilian property and disrupted the South's economy and its transportation networks. -
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding world war ll. In the 21st century, the Great Depression is commonly used as an example of how far the world's economy can decline. The depression originated in the U.S., after the fall in stock prices that began around September 4, 1929, and became worldwide news with the stock market crash of October 29, 1929 (known as Black Tuesday). -
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World War ll
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war. It lasted from 1939 to 1945, though some related conflicts in Asia began before 1939. In a state of "total war", the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941.The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
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Jimmy Carter
Member of the Democratic Party who served as the 39th president of the United States. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize. the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office. Before he became President, Carter served as a U.S. Naval officer, was a peanut farmer, served two terms as a Georgia State Senator and one as the Governor of Georgia, from 1971 to 1975.
