Georgia History Timeline

  • Jan 1, 1000

    Paleo Culture

    Paleo Culture
    The Paleo Culture existed 12,000 years ago .They travel every where the food they plan on eating . They kill mammoth with spears . On the top of their spears its called a clovis point .
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Archaic

    Archaic
    Archaic Culture existed from 8000 B.C to 1000 B.C . Food, nuts, fish, berries, oysters, sheel, sea shells, migrate they retuen every year to the same spot.
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Woodland

    Woodland
    Woodland Culture existed from 1000 B.C to 1000 A.D . They used pottery. They travle in tribes or groups. They built mounds and burial grounds.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1000 to

    Mississipian

    The ocomlyee hermage was a banded within 2 years if the most recent evidence on the disapperance at the whole. The mississipian indians were in the battle of the spanish .
  • Mar 5, 1540

    Hernado de Soto

    Hernado de Soto
    Hernado came to native america to find gold. He absolute failure. He did not find any gold and ended up killing thousands of natives . He killed them with dieases .
  • First African American

    First African American
    Hamilton Holmes is best known desegregating Georgian's universities . One of the first two African American students admitted to the universary of Georgia in Athens. Holmeswas also the first black student admitted to the Emory Universary School of Medicine in Atlanta two years later .
  • Charter of 1732

    Charter of 1732
    The Chater banned catholics, blacks, liquor dealers, and lawyers. Catholics was banned because of the long standing division with catholics church and the church of England .
  • Georgia founded James Oglethorpe

    Georgia founded James Oglethorpe
    Oglethorpe was an eenglish man help people in trouble . He was a educated and healthy man .
  • Salzburges Arrive in Georgia

    Salzburges Arrive in Georgia
    They came from Salzburg. They left from Salzburg and went to Ebeneezer because of the death, not enough freedom and bad farmland.
  • Highland Scots Arrive in Georgia

    Highland Scots Arrive in Georgia
    They settled in a town in Georgia called Darien . These people was recruited from scouland. They were known for being big mens, which was not scared of anything. Highland Scots were people that love to fight.
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    John Reynolds

    He was the first governor be he was also the worse one. His career was advanced slowly bet steadily. He really didnt do much because he also trying to be bossy .
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    Herny Ellis

    He was the second governor and he was the best out of all three. His nickname was " Georgia second founder " . The people was happy to see him so the greeted him enthusiasm.
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    James Wright

    James Wright was the third governor. He was governor during the Amercican Revolution James expanded Georgoa and he encpurage settlement .
  • American Revolution

    American Revolution
    There were four reasons for the American Revolution. It was a political upheaval that took place between 1775 and 1783during which the thirteen American colonies broke from the British Empire and formed an independent nation .
  • Austin Dabney

    Austin Dabney
    Austin Dabney was a freeborn mulatto. His parents was a different kind of race, one of his parents was African and the other one was English. He was the first nonwhite (black) to fight in the revoulution from Georgia .
  • Elijah Clarke and the Battle of Kettle Creek

    Elijah Clarke and the Battle of Kettle Creek
    Elijah led the troops creek. He defeated a group of 800 british soldiers. The end results was the patriots took needed the spirits of the Georgia militia. Elijah has now a county named after him which is called Clarke County .
  • Article of confederation ratified

    Article of confederation ratified
    The Articles of confederation was the 1st constitution . It had a central government. It was an argeement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution,
  • University of Georgia

    University of Georgia
    G.A was the first state supported. Brought economy and wealth to the area. tHis area was Athens, GA. Athens was the center of intellectual learning in G.A.
  • Constitution Convection of 1787

    Constitution Convection of 1787
    The constitutional convection of 1787 was a meeting of all of the states in Philadelphia to discuss changes that needed to be made to the Articles of confederation . Representatives from each state were there and took part in writing the U.S constitution. Abraham Baldwin and William Few were Georgia's representatives .
  • Georgia Ratifies US constitution

    Georgia Ratifies US constitution
    Arabham Baldwin and William Few was the Georgia's to sign the constitutioon for selfish reasons. Need federal gov't to help fight the Americans to move west. Wanted federal government to have the power to unite the country.
  • Invevtion of the cotton gin

    Invevtion of the cotton gin
    The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney in April 1793. The cotton gin had a machine to separtethe cotton seed from the fiber. Cotton was Georgia's cheir crop before the civil war.
  • Yazoo Land Fraud

    Yazoo Land Fraud
    Georgia extended west to the mississippi river and the yazoo river. Government of Georgia legislators were prided by private land compranies to sell goveernment land.
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    The Missouri Compromise want to keep the balance of slaves states, it did not wont a lot of slaves at one states
  • Dahlonega Gold Rush

    Dahlonega Gold Rush
    The Cherokee Nation was flooded by thousand Cherokee Indians looking for some gold .
  • Indian Removal

    Indian Removal
    The Indian Removal act is a law that was passed when Andrew Jackson was president. The act was supported by non active people of the south.
  • Worcester v. Georgia

    Worcester v. Georgia
    After seven missionaries refused to obtain license they were arrested and convicted. The missionaries Samuel Worcester and Elizur Butler were arrested by Georgia because of their oppostion to Cherokee removal .
  • Trail of Tears

    Trail of Tears
    Its anme given to the ethnic cleansing and forced relocation of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    Int he compromise California wanted to be a free state. In the south they had Utah and New Mexico as their states.
  • Kansas-Nebraka Act

    Kansas-Nebraka Act
    It was an act that repeal against the missori compromise.
  • Dred Scott

    Dred Scott
    Law suits was filed by a white man on his behalf; sc ruled against Scott was calling him property .
  • Georgia secedes from the union

    Georgia secedes from the union
    Milledgeville statewide Georgia's decision in 1861 to leave the united states had far-reaching and unintended consequences for all Georgians ... southerns .
  • Antietam

    Antietam
    This battle was near the town of Sharpsburg,Maryland. The north had won the battle, so that give Abraham the opportunity to issue the preuminary emancpation. This the bloodest battle in history.
  • Gettysburg

    Gettysburg
    In Chickamauga, Braggs army defeated the union forces and forced the union army back into Tennessee . In Novemeber 1863 General Ulysses arrived with more troops to recapture Chattancoga.
  • Chickamauga

    Chickamauga
    In chickamauga Braggs army defeated the union forces and forced the union army back into tennessee. In Nov 1863 Genernal Ulysses arrived with more troops to recapture Chattancoga.
  • March to the sea

    March to the sea
    Sherman destroyed all military targets and civilan economic system. On December 22,1864 Sherman sent a wire to president Lincoln to make the war end .
  • 13 Amendment

    13 Amendment
    The 13th Amendment was an amendmet that freed an slaves and also banned them .
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment
    The 14th Amendment wanted to give blacks full citizenship and equal treatment .
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment
    The 15th amendment wanted to give blacks males the right to vote and how to learn to read and write.
  • Maynard Hartsifield

    Maynard Hartsifield
    Maynard Jackson was an AMerican politicain who served as the 49th and 51st mayor of Atlanta. Hartsfield - Jackson Atlanta international airport was named in hartsfield's honor as well as later mayor. Maynard Jackson , who led he modernization of the airport in th 1970.
  • Great Depression

    Great Depression
    It was a severe worldwide economic depression decade preceding world war 2. It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century.
  • Holocaust

    Holocaust
    The holocaust was the name given to the systematic exetermination { killing } of 6 million Jews. The jews were also killed by Nazis during and before world war II .
  • Maynard Jackson

    Maynard Jackson
    Maynard Jackson was an American politicain , a memeber of the Democratic party , and the first African American . He was mayor of Atlanta , GA serving three terms .
  • World War 2

    World War 2
    World War 2 was also known as the second world war. The war was evenetually forming two opposing teams , which was Axis and Allied . The Axis powewr were made by Germany, Japan and Italy. The Allied forces were United States, France, Soviet Union, and Britianm.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    The atack led to the United States entry into World War 2. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strick conducted by the Imperal Japanese Navy against the United States Naval base.
  • Albany Movement

    Albany Movement
    It was desegregation coalition formed by Albany, GA . The organization was led by William G. Anderson a local black doctor of osteopathic medicine.
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    The March on Washington took place in Washington D.C. Martin Luther King J.r. was staning in front of the Lincoln Memorial. He had the speech " I Have a Dream " , which ended racism .
  • Jimmy Carter

    Jimmy Carter
    Jimmmy Carter is an American poitican and memeber of the Democrati party. He served as the 39th president. Before he was president, he served as a U.S. Naval officer , was a peanut farmer.
  • 1956 State Flag

    1956 State Flag
    The flag has three red and white stripes, with the state coat of arms. In the coat of arms the arch symbolizes the state's constitution and tghe pillars represent the tree branches of government . They are Legislature, Judical, and Executive .