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Jan 1, 1000
Palieo Culture
The Palieo Culture existed 12,000 years ago. Palieo Indians were some of the first people to live in the Americas. The Palieo people come from Asia. Palieo indians left small records of how they lived. Palieo indians uses lots of tools such as clovis spear, axe, and rock knifes. Palieo indians were nomadic they moved to where they could hunt the best -
Jan 1, 1000
Archaic Culture
Archaic indians were hunters and gathers. Their groups are as large as 50 people. They built oval shaped houses.Archaic people used spears with rock points and knives. They made pottery. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland Culture
Woodland people were not as nomadic as their ancestors. Their changed lifeways relied less on migratory animals species. Instead, they relied more on smaller game such as deer, turkey, rabbit, and even skunk, fox, and wildcat. Woodland Indians made seasonal moves because different food sources were available at different places and in different times of the year. -
Period: Jan 1, 1000 to Jan 8, 1200
Mississippian Culture
The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that grew in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 to 1500 varying regionally -
Mar 15, 1540
Hernando De Soto
Hernando De Soto search the southeastern states for gold.De Soto traveled many native village in his search. He killed many natives with dieases. De Soto inslaved many natives that he didn't kill for information. In his failure he took out his angry of other natives that he incountered -
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Henry Ellis
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Charter of 1732
King George II granted charter to Oglethorpe's trustees for establishing the colony of Georgia and for managing it for 21 years. Catholics, blacks, liquor dealers, and lawyers could not become colonists. -
Georgia Founded by James Olgethorpe
Olgethorpe proposedn a colony for poor.England first claimed Georgia in 1663. Not until 1717 that the english made plans to settle. -
Salzburgers arrive in Georgia
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Highland scots arrive in Georgia
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John Reynolds
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James Wright
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american revolution
The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which the Thirteen American Colonies broke from the British Empire and formed an independent nation, the United States of America. The American Revolution was the result of a series of social, political, and intellectual transformations in American society, government and ways of thinking. Starting in 1765 the Americans rejected the authority of Parliament to tax them without elected representatives. -
Austin Dabney
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Eijah Clarke and Battle of Kettle Creek
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Articles of Conferderation ratified by all 13 states
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University of Georgia Est.
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Capital moves from augusta to louisville
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Eli Whitney and the cotton gin
Eli Whitney was the inventor of the cotton gin and a pioneer in the mass production of cotton. Whitney was born in Westboro, Massachusetts on December 8, 1765 and died on January 8, 1825. He graduated from Yale College in 1792. By April 1793, Whitney had designed and constructed the cotton gin, a machine that automated the separation of cottonseed from the short-staple cotton fiber. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
While the discovery in Georgia in 1828 was the event that led to what they call the "Georgia Gold Rush", there were reports of gold in the North Georgia Mountains much earlier. Since the 16th century, American Indians in Georgia told European explorers that the small amounts of gold which they possessed came from mountains of the interior. Some poorly documented accounts exist of Spanish or French mining gold in north Georgia between 1560 and 1690, but they are based on supposition and on rumors -
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Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed in the United States in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). The compromise, drafted by Whig Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky and brokered by Clay and Democrat Stephen Douglas, avoided secession or civil war and reduced sectional conflict for four years.
