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Jan 1, 1000
Archarc Culture
The Archarc culture lived from 8,000 bc to 1,000 bc. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland Culture
The Woodland culture lived from 1,000 B.C. to A.D. 1,000. -
Jan 1, 1000
Paleo Culture
The Paleo Culture existed 12,000 years ago. They ate and hunted mammoth, bison, elk ground sloth and saber tooth tigers. They hunted in groups and, killed their pray with speres that had clovis points. They moved around to stay with there food. -
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Mississippian
The mississippian indians lived through 1000ad to 1000ad. They built homes and farms. They were the first to have an a government. They finnaly became civilized. -
Oct 5, 1540
Hernando de soto
Hernasndo de soto was a spanish explorer. He came to Georgia in search of gold.He did not find any.He killed thousands of natives and ended up a failure. -
charter of 1732
the charter of 1732 granted the colony of Georgiamanagment of it self for 21 years. The charter banned sertian people from going to Georgia lioke bapists and lawyers. IN the charter it said that trustees could not own land or be piad for their work. -
james oglethorpe found Georgia
James was born in 1969. He was wealthy and well educated. He didn't like that people were being thrown in prison for tax. He went to find land for the poor nand discovered Georgia. -
Salzburgers Arrive
The Salzburgers came from sulzburg. They came to Georgia to have more religious freedoms. They wanted to get away from the cathlics. When they got here they named the land Ebeneaser but it did not hold. They move to a new land which they called it New Ebiniser. -
highland scots
the highland scots setteled ast the bottom of the colony.they lived in a town called darien.They were requisted because of there erge to fight. They were big and intended to be a barrier between the colony and the spanish. -
Highland Scots Arrive
The Highland SCotts settled at the bottom of the colony in a town called Darien. They settled January 1736 They were requisted become of there erge to fight. They were big a barrier between the spanish and the Colones. -
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john reynolds
john reynolds was in the royal han .Reynalds organization created great pressure for geogias starta loss of money and gave the colony a bad picture for potential misrent reynalds finalized a orgaanization of royal government. -
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Henry ellis
henry was the second royal governor of georgia. He was nicknamed the second founder of georgia.Under his leadership georgians learned how to govern themselves. I 1758 he sponsered legislation that divided the provine into eight parishes. -
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james wright
James was the third royal govnor of georgia. He served from 1760 to 1782. He played a keyrole in retardingthe flame of revolution in georgia. HE encuorged settlement in the indies. he was sent back to britian in 1782 -
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American revolution
The American rvoluction was a war fought agianst the Amercians and the Brittish. the Brittish were taxing the americans for the French and Indian war. the Americans declared independence. At the end of the war the Americans won there independecne. -
battle of kettle creek
The Battle of Kettle Creek was fought during the American Revolution on this day in 1779. -
15th amendment
The 15th amendment gave black males the right to vote. -
university of G.A.
The University of georgia was found in 1785. The first meeting as in Febuary 1786. Abraham Boldwin was selected by the people of the coucle. -
Austin Dabney
Austin Dabney was a slave who fought in the Revolutionary war. He was the first slave ever to be granted land by the state of Georgia. -
Georgia Ratified Constitution
Abraham Boldwin and William few were the people from Georgia who sighed the constition. They wanted to Ratified the new constition for selfish reasons. They wanted the federal govt to have the power to unite the country. Needed the federal govt to help fight the native Americans to move west. -
Invention of Cotton Gin
The cotton gin was envented by Eli witney. It is a machiine that seperated the seed from the sotton frabric. Before the coton gin was built it took hour to get 50lbs of cotton.This made cotton a very hard product to produce.After the cotton gin cotton production be came the product of the south.Cotton was made more because it was faster to get it . The faster the cotton needed to be picked the more slaves needed. -
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capital move
Lewi veli was the Capital of Georgia from 1795 to 1807. It was named in honor of king lewi the 16 of France. They moved it to keep the capital at the central location geographicly and population. -
Massouri Comp.
The first piece of legislature to help keep the balance of the states. It stated that missouri would enter as a slave state and maine as free. It lasted until 1850 when Califoria wanted to become it's own state. -
dahlonega Gold rush
When gold was found in Dahlonega the Cherokee indians lived their. When the settlers found out they rushed to Dahlonega to fing some gold. Most were unsuccesful. They started changing laws so that the indians could noy keep any gold found. -
Indian removal act
The indian removal act was signed by president Jackson. The act removed indians from Georgia lands. They were forced to move west of the mississippi river . This move was not voluntary it started the trail of tears. -
Worcester v.s. Georgia
The worcester v. Georgia case began on febuary 20,1832. he said his family's forced evection/removal.was unfair. He spent 3 day in jail. -
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Trail of tears
In 1838 as part of the indian removal act the indians had to move to the land east of the mississippi river. They called it the trail of tears because most of the indians didn,t want to move. Tyhe indians were forced to move by the law and the settliers guns -
comp of 1850
In 1850 california's government did not allow slavery. It became a free state. The south had to get something out of this to so they got the fugitive slave law. That is compromise in the compromise of 1850. -
Fugitive Slave Law
The Fugitive Slave Law was a law that said all run away slaves must be brought back to their owners. This law was a part of the compramise of 1850 January 29 , 1850. -
Kanas-Newbraska act of 1854
KAnas and Newbraska were organized into territories. A law was passed to allow citizen of the state to decide whether they will be free states or slave states. People from all over the u.s. rushed down to vote. This started a fight and was called "bleeding Kanas". -
Dred scott
Dred scot was a slave who's owner moved to free state. He thought sense he was in a free state he should be free. At first he couldn't apply his case because he was not citizen. A white man applied his case for him. In the end it was sent the supreme court. They said he was property and had to go whereever his owner did. This made the poeple in the north angry because slavery was coming to the north. -
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union blockade
The union blockade was to make the south not have materials to fight. This would starve the south and make them run out of material to make ammo. the union blockade did not work as good as they thought it would some small ship got passed the union ships and brought the south materail, but they did not get much. -
G.A. secedes from the union
Georgia seceded from the union on January 19, 1861. G.A. wanted to seced from tyhe union when lincoln became president. Presedent lincoln and the republican party were anti-slavery meaming they hated slavery. -
Antietum
The south's first invasion.Southern arms collided with the nortthern arms.The union won the battle. -
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Battle of Gettysburg
The battle of Gettysburg was a three day battle. it was fought on Jully 1 throgh third . The union won the battle and ended general Lee's second invasion. -
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Chickamauga
Tennesse crossed the boarder of G.A. -
Andersonville
Andersonville is a prison camp for the union solders that got captured. -
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march to the Sea
sherman's men moved through the state of georgia heading for Savannah. Theyburned everything in a path 6 miles wide. he and his army destroyed all military targets and the civil economic system thatsupported the confederate states. The move took over 2 mounths. On december 22, 1864 sherman sent president Lincon a wire message, -
13 amendment
The 13th amendment freed all slaves and banned slavery. -
14th amendment
The 14th amendment gave blacks full citizenship and equal rights. -
leo frank case
The Leo Frank case was a case in which Lep frank was convicted of murder. He was accused of killing Mary Phagan. We do not know if he really did it or not. He was sentenced to life in prison. He was kidnapped and hung. -
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great depression
Most of the states went into the great depression after the market crashed. Most of the south went into it about 10 years earlier. The bowl Weevel caused to go in to the great depression becuase the bowl weevel ate the inside of the cotton that most of the south depended on. -
Roosevelt’s New Deal
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Yazoo Land Fraud
The yazoo land was when privote land companies bribed the legislature to make a law to sellthem the land. It was sold to them for a penny an acre. People heard about it and voted out the legislature office. The federail government was sued by the people who bought land from the private land companies. Georgia lost what is now mississippi and alabama. THat is why G.A. is the shape it is now. -
1996 Summer Games
In 1996 atlanta was selected for the Olympic Games (olymipics). -
1996 atlanta riot
The 1996 atlanta roit was a fight. This fight was agianst whites and blacks. It ended up killing 18 men. Most of the men that were killed were black.
