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The Paleo Culture existed 12,000 years ago.They moved place to place nevr stayed followed the animals.
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Archaic Indians eat fish,nuts,berries.The hunted and they created spearheads too.
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The Eastern Woodland Indian were made up of many tribes. The most known of these tribes were the Powhatan, Mohawks, Iroqoius, and the Susquehanna.
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As the ancient people continued to develop a more cultured and permanent life style more and more sophisticated artifacts including ornate jewelry painted pottery and carefully carved statues showing the Indians high artistic qualites were found
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de soto came to georgia to liook fr gold he did not find any.The effects was it started a war with the natives.He bring diseases with him and he capture and killed the natives.
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A charter is a legal document that grants special rights issued by King Georga the charter established Georgia between the Savannah and Atlanta rivers.The charter exeluded lawyers and outlawed liquors according to the charter trustees could not pass laws with the king's perrission.
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The Salzburgers Arrived From Austria For Religious Reason.They Were Being Pesecuted By The Caltholics In Europe.James With Land And They Named It Ebenzer They Moved Because The Land Was Not Good And Name The New Home New Ebenezer.
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The Highland Scot Were Recruited By James Oglethorpe To Help Protect The New Colony From Spanish They Were Big And Strong And Were Not Afraid Of Anything.They Settled In City They Would Call Darien.
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Austin Dabney was a slave who fought against the British in the American Revolutionary War. He was born a mulatto slave in Wake County, North Carolina.
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The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which the Thirteen American Colonies broke from the British .
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The Battle of Kettle Creek (February 14, 1779) was a major encounter in the back country of Georgia during the American Revolutionary War. It was fought in Wilkes County about eight miles (13 km) from present-day Washington, Georgia.
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The 1st Supported Univerity In The US Est.Jan 27 By The General Assemlby Brought Economic Develop And Move People To The Formed After The University Was Est And Named After Athens Geece From Being The Eduational Center Of Ga.
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The Constitution Convention Of 1787 Was Meeting Of AllSyaye In Philadephia To Disuss Changes Confederaton.Representives From Each State Were There And
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Gold Was Found In North Georgia Summer Of 1829.Benjamin Parks Was Said To Have Discoverd Gold White Deer Hunting Hear Dehlonge.
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The Indian Removal Act was a law passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. It authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands.
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Rebecca Latimer Felton, who died in 1930 at the age of ninety-four, lived a life that was as full as it was long.
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At the beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida–land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations. By the end of the decade, very few natives remained anywhere in the southeastern United States.
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Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory.
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Civil War Union forces established a blockade of Confederate ports designed to prevent the export of cotton and the smuggling of war materiel into the Confederacy.
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The United States presidential election of 1860 was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860 and served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War.
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The Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the Civil War, the Union victory that ended General Robert E. Lee's second and most ambitious invasion of the North. Often referred to as the High Water Mark of the Rebellion. Gettysburg was the war's bloodiest battle with 51,000 casualties.
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Georgia called the Chickamauga Campaign. The battle was the most significant Union defeat in the Western Theater of the American Civil War and involved the second highest number of casualties in the war following the Battle of Gettysburg. It was the first major battle of the war that was fought in Georgia.
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Sherman's March to the Sea is the name commonly given to the military Savannah Campaign in the American Civil War.
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The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War.
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The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily but not exclusively in southern and border states between 1877 and the mid-1960s.
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William B. Hartsfield was a man of humble origins who became one of the greatest mayors of Atlanta.
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30-year-old Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the White car of the East Louisiana Railroad.
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During the Atlanta race riot that occurred September 22-24 1906 white mobs killed dozens of blacks wounded scores of others and inflicted considerable property damage.
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Though the relief and reform measures put into place by President Franklin D. Roosevelt helped lessen the worst effects of the Great Depression in the 1930 the economy would not fully turn around until after 1939.
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The discovery of the body of a thirteen-year-old girl in the basement of an Atlanta pencil factory where she had gone to collect her pay check shocked.
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This act formalized what had operated as an informal system, instituted in Georgia in 1898, of allotting votes by county in party primary elections.
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This act formalized what had operated as an informal system, instituted in Georgia in 1898, of allotting votes by county in party primary elections.
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The world’s first global conflict, the Great War pitted the Central Powers of Germany, Austria Hungary and the Ottoman Empire against the Allied forces of Great Britain, the United States, France, Russia, Italy and Japan.
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His achievements were notable but in an era of rising energy costs mounting inflation and continuing tensions it was impossible for his administration to meet these high expectations.
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The most catastrophic stock market crash in the history of the United States, Black Tuesday took place on October 29, 1929 and was when the price of stocks completely collapsed.
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The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's program was known as the New Deal. Under it, the federal government took far more responsibility for the economic welfare of the people than it had in any previous administration.
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Elected mayor of Atlanta in 1973, Maynard Jackson was the first African American to serve as mayor of a major southern city. Jackson served eight years and then returned for a third term
Elected mayor of Atlanta in 1973, Maynard Jackson was the first African American to serve as mayor of a major southern city. Jackson served eight years and then returned for a third term in 1990. in 1990, following the mayorship of Andrew -
World War 2 was a long and bloody war that lasted for six years. Officially beginning on September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland, World War 2 lasted until both the Germans and the Japanese had surrendered to the Allies in 1945.
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The road to war between Japan and the United States began in the 1930s when differences over China drove the two nations apart. In 1931 Japan conquered Manchuria, which until then had been part of China. In 1937 Japan began a long and ultimately unsuccessful campaign to conquer the rest of China.
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes away after four momentous terms in office leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War and in possession of a weapon of unprecedented and terrifying power
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According to traditional accounts the Albany Movement began in fall 1961 and ended in summer 1962. It was the first mass movement in the modern civil rights era to have as its goal the desegregation of an entire community, and it resulted in the jailing of more than 1,000 African Americans in Albany and surrounding rural counties.
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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. Attended by some 250,000 people, it was the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation's capital, and one of the first to have extensive television coverage.
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Ivan Allen Jr. served as mayor of Atlanta from 1962 to 1970.
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From July 19 until August 4, 1996 Atlanta hosted the Centennial Summer Olympic Games an event that was without doubt the largest undertaking in the city's history.
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The Capital Move To Stay In The Center Of The Population Of Georgia Citizens Were Moving West And Lawmarkers Wanted The Capital
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The Georgia Secession Convention of 1861 represents the pinnacle of the state's political sovereignty. With periodic interruptions, the convention met in Milledgeville from January 16 to March 23, 1861, and not only voted to secede the state from the Union but also created Georgia's first new constitution since 1798. Politically the convention was a watershed event that hastened the Civil War (1861-65) and dramatically changed the course of Georgia history.
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The Georgia Gold Rush was the second significant gold rush in the United States, and overshadowed the previous one in North Carolina. It started in 1828 in present-day Lumpkin County near the county seat, Dahlonega, and soon spread through the North Georgia mountains, following the Georgia Gold Belt. By the early 1840s, gold became harder to find. When gold was discovered in California in 1848 to start the California Gold Rush, many Georgia miners moved west.
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The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
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The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 (10 Stat. 277) created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory.
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The 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition was held at the current Piedmont Park in Atlanta, Georgia. Nearly 800,000 visitors attended the event.
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The Sibley Commission was the brainchild of Griffin Bell, Vandiver's chief of staff. In 1959 U.S. District Court judge Frank Hooper ruled unconstitutional Atlanta's segregated public school system and ordered it integrated.
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Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
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Since then, she has had a lengthy and distinguished career in education. She spent many years as an elementary school teacher. Later, she worked as an adjunct professor at Morehouse and Spelman colleges and as a music coordinator and supervisor of Atlanta Public Schools.
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The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri. The 1820 passage of Missouri Compromise took place during the presidency of James Monroe.
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The United States presidential election of 1860 was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860 and served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War.
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The most contentious disputes revolved around the composition and election of the Senate, how "proportional representation" was to be defined (whether to include slaves or other property), whether to divide the executive power between three persons or invest the power into a single president, how to elect the president, how long his term was to be and whether he could stand for reelection,
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The Battle of Chickamauga, fought September 19–20, 1863,[1] marked the end of a Union offensive in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia called the Chickamauga Campaign. The battle was the most significant Union defeat in the Western Theater of the American Civil War and involved the second highest number of casualties in the war following the Battle of Gettysburg. It was the first major battle of the war that was fought in Georgia.
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Andersonville was a place were a lot of men died.They Died by drinking dirt water and more stuff.
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The United States presidential election of 1932 was the 37th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1932.
