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Jan 1, 1000
Paleo Culture
The Paleo Culture existed 12,000 years ago. They only ate meat and probably plants.They hunted large animals.They ate Saber Tooth Tiger,Bison,Mammoth,Groun Sloth,Wild Horses, Moose,and Elk. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland Culture
Woodland exsisited 1000bc and contiued to about 1000ad. They plant vegtables,flowers and crops. They hunted deer one Indian could kill a deer. They built villiages. -
Jan 1, 1000
Archaic Culture
Archaic Culture exisited in 8000bc and ened in 1000bc. They ate fruit and meat. They ate nuts,and berries. They ate fish,deer,turkey,bear.oysters.and shell fish. -
Period: Feb 5, 1000 to
Mississippian
They build house. Have families. Wroked and traded their goods with Indians. -
Mar 5, 1540
Hernando De Soto
He came to Georgia in spring March 5,1540 he came looking for gold.He was a spanish expoler.He came to Georgia.He went to Georgia to look for gold.He failed to find any gold in Georgia. -
Charter of 1732
The Papists,Chatholic,blacks,gurodfalers,an lawyers could not become colonists. Trustees people who hold reponsibility on others.King George 11 granted a charter to James.Charters a legal document that grants special rights and privileges. -
Georgia founded by James Oglethrope
He found Georgia. He went through Savvannh Rivver. -
Salzburgers Arrive in Georgia
They were hard workers and delvolp new Georgia first. Salzburges that is where they came. They move to Ebenzer. Then they left because of defense. -
Highland Scots Arrive in Georgia
They were the frist groups. They were defense. The came from Darrien.So they can fight. -
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John Reynolds
He was a weak governor. He was very bossy. He was recall back to England. He was not a good governor.He was the first royal governor. -
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Henry Ellis
He was second royal governor. The people were happy that John Reynolds was gone. He was better than any other Governor they had. He was the second founder of Georgia. Close friends with the Creek Indians. -
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James Wright
He was the third Royal governor.Governor during American Revolution. He was arrested in 1776 by parrots and returned to London. He was as good as Henry Ellis was. People did not like him cause he was British. He left for good in 1782. -
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Austin Dabney
Austin Dabney was a slave who became a private in the Georgia militia and fought against the British during the Revolutionary War (1775-83). He was the only African American to be granted land by the state of Georgia in recognition of his bravery and service during the Revolution and one of the few to receive a federal military pension.Born in Wake County, North Carolina, in the 1760s, Austin Dabney moved with his master, Richard Aycock, to Wilkes County, Georgia, in the late 1770s. -
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American Revolution
There were four reasons for the American Revolution. The French and Indian war was a war between the French and British. The proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George 2 forbidding colonist to settle west of proclamation line. Intolelable ac ts were four laws encated by Britain to punish the colonist for The Boston Tea Party. The declaration of independence was a docment stating the reasons that the colonist were upset with the English. -
Eligah Clark and the battle of Kettle Creek
Led troops at kettle creek defeated a group of 800 British soliders end result patriots took needed weapons and horse, and rasied the spirits of Georgia milifld. Eligah had a county named a fit him Clarke County. -
Austin Dabney
He was a freedom mulato,Recived land in madison county for his servivice in the Georgia Militia. First non-white (BLACK) to fight in the Revloution from Georgia. -
Articles of Condferation ratief all 13 states
The state governments to much power national government could not Levy or demand taxes, enforce laws or control trade no Executive branch (president) no Judical branch no court to setetle disputes. -
Constitutnal Convention of 1887
Constitutnal Convection of 1787 was a meeting of all states in Philadephia to ducuss changes that needed to be made to the articles of conderferation Reps from each state were there and took part in writing the U.S. consitation Abrham Baldwin and William Few were Georgia Reps. -
Consitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention[1]:31 (also known as the Philadelphia Convention,[1]:31 the Federal Convention,[1]:31 or the Grand Convention at Philadelphia) took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain. The result of the Convention was the creation of the United States Constitution, placing the Conven -
Georgia Ratifies U.S. Constitution
Abraham Baldwin and William Few were Georgia's reps at the constitutional covention of 1787. Georgia ratified the new constitution for selfish reasons wanted feds gov't to have power to unit the county. Needed the federal gov't to help fight the Native to move west. -
Yazoo land fraud
e Yazoo land scandal, Yazoo fraud, Yazoo land fraud, or Yazoo land controversy was a massive fraud perpetrated from in the mid-1790s by several[clarification needed] Georgia governors and the state legislature. They sold large tracts of land in the Yazoo lands, what is now portions of Alabama and Mississippi, to political insiders at very low prices in 1794. It was one of the first times the Court had overturned state law, and it justified many claims for the land. -
Missouri Compromise
After a great deal of debate, congress adopted the Missiouri Compromise in 1820. The purpose was to keep the balance of slave states and free states. -
Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act resulted in the trans piantgtion of several Indian tribes and the Trai of Tears. Law was passed May 28, 1830. Supported by non-native people of the south. Non-Native was egar to get land. -
Worcester v. Georgia
Samuel Worcester and held that the Georgia criminal statute that prohibited non-Native Americans from being present on Native American lands without a license from the state was unconstitutional.Chief Justice John Marshall laid out in this opinion the relationship between the Indian Nations and the United States is that of nations. He argued that the United States, in the character of the federal government. -
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Dahlonega Gold Rush
There are several popular stories of the beginning of Georgia's gold rush.By late 1829 north Georgia, known at the time as the Cherokee Nation, was flooded by thousands of prospectors lusting for gold.The news got abroad, and such excitement you never saw. It seemed within a few days as if the whole world must have heard of it, for men came from every state I had ever heard of. They came afoot, on horseback and in wagons, acting more like crazy men than anything else. -
Compromise of 1850
California wanted to be a state. Up set the balance. South gov't , Utah, New Mexico decide on their own. North govt, California as a free state. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Prosed by Stephen Douglas. The propose was formation of Kanas amd Nebraska. Both should choose for themselves (slavery). Northerners and Southerners flooded in to settle. Violence = Bleeding Kansas. -
Dred Scott Case
Slaves are not citizens. Law suit was filed by a white man on his behalf. Sumprere Court rules aganist Scott , calling him his property. -
Antietam
Near town of Sharpsburg ,Maryland. Northens and Southerns armies was there . That was the bloodiest war. The Union won. -
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GettysBurg
GettysBurg battle was the turing point of the Civil war. The battle was July 1-3 on 1863. It was the bloodest battle with 51,000 die. The Union won. -
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Chickamauga
November 1863 Grant brought more troops. More troops to Dalton. Control of railroads lines. Conferece won the Battle. -
Sherman's March To The Sea
Shermans army moved quckily through the state heading for Savannah burning everything in his way. Shermans damage were 100 million. Sherman sent a wire to president Lincoln. When surrouding Sherman they were uper and lower of him. -
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Jim Crow Laws
They want degeration. US military was also segeration. Whites and blacks were also to. -
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Mayor Ivan Allen JR
Was an American businessman who served two terms as the 52nd Mayor of Atlanta Georgia. Did it during the turbulent Civil Rights era of the 1960s. Allen provied pivotal leadership for transforming the segregated and enconomically stagnant Old South into the progressive New South. -
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Sibley Commission
In 1960 Georgia Governor Ernest Vandiver,JR. was faced with a decision to either close public schools or comply with a federal orde to desgrgate them. Try to avoid the Federal Government. Committee charged gaurdig public and reported it to the governor. -
Black Tuesday
The Wall Street Crash of 1929 also known as Black Tuesday or Stock Market Crash of 1929. Began in October 29, 1929. Most devasting stock market Crash in the history of the United States. Began 10 year Great Depression. -
Holocaust
The holocaust was the name given to the symatic exter mahation killing of 6 million jews. The jews were also killed by Nazis during and before WORLD WAR 2 -
Maynard Jackson
Jacksons grandfather was a civil rights leader. his mother was an professor. He graduted from Morehouse College. The he went to Boston Law School. -
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WW2
They had great powers. This was a terriable war. 50 to 85 million fatailites was there. Lots of people died on that day. -
Pearl Habor
The attack was inteded as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interferind with military actions the empire of Japan was planning in Southeas Asia againsoverseas territor of the Unted Kingdom the Netherlands, and the United States. This led to WW2 -
Brown v.s. Board of Education
Was a land mark Untied States Supreme Court in which the court declared state laws establishing separte public schools for the blacks and whites unconstitutional. The ruiling paved to victory. -
Albany Movement
The Albany Movement mobilized thousands of citizens attracted nationwide attention. But failed to accomplish it goals because of dtermined opposition. Created as a key lesson. Tactics for national civil rights movements. -
March ON Washington
Organized by civil right group. It strated on a Tuesday. It was in Wshinghton. About 300,00 people was there. -
1956 State Flag
The design was 3 stripes consisting of red, white, and red. The conton is blue containing a ring of 13 stars encompassing the state seal in gold. The state Motto, Wisdom, Justice, and Moderation. The nickname stars and Bars. -
Cotton Gin
Cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.The fibers are processed into clothing or other cotton goods, and any undamaged seeds may be used to grow more cotton or to produce cottonseed oil and meal. It used a combination of a wire screen and small wire hooks to pull the cotton through.
