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Jan 1, 1000
Paleo Culture
The Paleo Culture existed 12,000 years ago.The Paleo Indians hunted for their food.They ate large animals such as wooly mammoths, large bison, wild horses, moose, and elk.They had different sized arrowheads. -
Jan 1, 1000
Archaic
They used stone axes and arrowheads to kill animals.They lived in huts made out of sticks.They ate beans and different types of nuts.They made their arrowheads.The time period was 8000BC to 1000BC. -
Jan 1, 1000
woodland
They used arrows and knives for tools.They lived in huts made out of sticks and twigs.They ate corn, beans, and squash.They made pottery in their social habits. -
Period: Jan 1, 1000 to
Mississippian
They used arrowheads and stone axes for tools.They made big huts out of sticks.They ate corn and squash.They made tools for their social habits. -
Mar 5, 1540
Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto came to Georgia in search of gold. When he came back he did not find any.Thousands of Native indians died from European diseases.He killed the natives with cruelty and diseases. -
charter of 1732
A charter is a legal document that grants special rights.Issued by King George, the charter established Georgia between the savannah and Altamaha rivers.The charter excluded catholics, blacks, and lawyers, and outlawed liquor. According to the charter, trustees could not pass laws without the king's permission. -
Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe
He cared greatly about people in trouble and tried to find ways to help them.Oglethorpe and 20 other prominent men who were called trustees drafted a charted requested the king to give them 'a grant of of lands on the Southwest of Carolina for the poor pesons of London'.They would name the new colony 'Georgia' in honor of King George 2.The trustees requested in their charters 'all land between the Altahmaha and Svaannah river. -
Salzburgers arrived in Georgia
The Salzburgers arrived from Austria for religious reasons.They were being prosecuted by catholics in Europe.James Oglethorpe provided them with land and they named it Ebenezer.They moved because the land was not good, and named their new home New Ebenezer. -
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John Reynolds
John Reynolds was the first royal governor and a former naval captain.He was a bossy and weak governor and valued his authority.Reynolds angered the legislature.The members were dissatisfiedwith Reynolds.He established a structure for goernment, courts, council and a common house.Reynolds was recalled back to England and had great distress on Georgia. -
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Henry Ellis
Henry Ellis was the second royal governor,"second founder of Georgia."He was responsible for self-government in Georgia.He was greeted with enthusiasm.Ellis made a realationship with the creek indiansm (friendly).Poor health formed him out of office. -
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James Wright
James Wright was the third royal governor of Georgia.He was the governor during the american revolution.During his term Georgia expanded and he encouraged settlement in the frontier.He was arrested in 1776 patriots and returned to London.He came back to savannah when the the British captured the city in 1779.He left for good in 17782. -
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American Revolution
The french and indian war was a 9 year war between the French and british.The Proclomation of 1763 was issued by King George lll forbidding colonist to settle west of the Proclamation Line.The Intolerable Acts were four laws enacted by british to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party.The declaration of Independence was a document stating the reasons that the colonists were upset with the english. -
Eligah Clarke the battle of Kettle Creek
Led the troops at Kettle Creek.She defeated a group of 800 british solidiers .The ended result wasthe patriot took reeded weapons and horses and raised the spirits of the Georgia Militia.Elijah Clarke has a county named after her Clarke county. -
Austin Dabney
He was a freeborn mulatto.He was the first non-white (black) to fight in the revolution from Georgia (injured in the battle).Recieved land in Madison county for his service in the Georgia Militia.Mulatto was a person of a mixed percentage. -
Articles Of Confederation ratified by all 13 states
The Articles Of Confederation, formally the articles of confederation and perptual union.Was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of soverigm states.Served as its first constitution.Its drafting by the constitutional congress began in mid-1776, and an approved version was sent to the states for ratification in late 1777. -
University of Georgia
The first public state supported university in the United States.Established January 27, 1785 by general aassembly. Brought economic development and more people to the area, The city of Athens formed after the university was established named after Athens, Greece, for being the educational center of Georgia. -
Constitutional Conention of 1787
The Constitutional Convention of 1787 was a meeting of all 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 the writing the U. S. Constitution. Abraham Baldwin and William Fe were Georgia's representatives. -
Georgia ratifies the u.s consitution
William Few and Abraham Baldwin signed the U.S Constitution.Georgia ratified the now constitution for selfish reasons.Wanted the ferderal government to have the power to unite the country.Needed federal government to help fight native americans in order for georgians to move westward onto new islands. -
Invention of the cotton gin
Invented by Eli Whitney.A machine to seperate the cotton seed.Before the cotton gin, it took hundreds hours to seperate seeds from the fibers.After the cotton gin, up to 50 pounds of cotton could be cleaned in a single day.The increase production led to a heavy need for slavery. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
Georgians growing hunger for land reached a peak in 1795.At that time, georgians western borders were the Mississippi River and or of its tributes (branches) the Yazoo River.Both South Carolina and Spain also claimed some of the land, and the matter went to court for settlement.When the assembly enacted the bill, the land companies bought between 35 and 50 million acres of landfor 500,000 dollars about 1- 1anda half cents a acre. -
Missouri Compromise
The is to keep the number of slave states and free states equal.A line drawn at 36'30 (latitude line) to show the border between free and slave states.North of line would be free and south would be slave. -
Indian Removal Act
May 28,1830 signed the law.Stated that all natives that lived in existing states could trade lands for land west of the Mississipi River. -
Worcestor vs. Georgia
Worcestor (white) was a missionary in cherokee territory (against the laws) worcestor and 10 other missionaries were arrested for being in cherokee (arrested by Georgia government) chief justice John Marshall rules in favor of the cherokee and Sam Worcestor, stating that Georgia had no right to cherokee territory .President Jackson states "John Marshall has made his decisicion, let him force it". -
Dred Scott
Scott was a slave in Missouri, but his owner needed to move to Minnesota, took his case to the supreme court but lost.Slaves were not considered "citizens but property victory for the slave states". -
Georgia Secedes from Union
Milledgville, statewide Georgians decision in 1861 to leave the united states had far reaching and consequences for all Georgians... and indeed all southerners began after presidents Lincolin's election in the belief that his republican party was aggresively anti-slavery. As the largest and most and most populos deep south state, Georgia was cruical to the sucess of the secessionist movement, -
Union Blockade
During the civil war, the union attempted to blockade the southern states.A blockade meant that they tried to prevent any goods,troops, and weapons from entering the southern states.By doing this, the union thought they could cause the economy of the confederate states to collapse. -
Antietam
23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or missing after twelve hours of savage combat on September 17, 1862. The Battle Of Antietam ended the confederate Army of Northern Virginia's first invasion into the north and led to Abraham Lincolin issuance of the Prelimeninary Emancipation Proclamation. -
Gettysburg
This battle was fought July 1-3, 1863, and resulted in a union victory that ended General Robert E. Lee's second inavasion of the North.The army of Potmae the union army led General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the north. -
Chickumaga
In late 1863, union forces moved against the major confederate railroad center in Chatanooga, Tennesse, just across the Georgia Line.On September 19-20 Union General William Rossacras led his troops against Confederate Genaral Baxton Bragg seven miles south of Chatanooga at Chickamuga. -
Andersonville
The Camp Sumter Military Prison at Andersonville was one of the largest confederate military prisons during the civil war. The 14 months of the prison existed more than 45,000nunion soldiers were confined here. Of those, almost 13,000 died here.Today, Andersonville National Historic site is a memorial to all American prisoners of war throughout the nations history. -
Shermans March to The Sea
After leaving Atlanta, Sherman's army quickly through the state heading for savannah, burning everything in a path sixty miles wide, on his way from Atlanta to Savannah, Sherman destroyed all military targets and the civilian economic system (farms,towns,ailroads,bridges and roads)that supported the confederate military. -
13th Admendment
The thirdteenth admendment to the US Constitution which continued the work of the Emacipation Proclamation, officially abolished slavery, the admendment was pased by congress in January 1865 and submitted to the states for ratification. -
14th Admendment
The fourteenth admendment granted citizenship to the freedom and forbade anyone the "equal protection of the the law".Congress passed by the admendment in June 1866, and it was ratified in July 1868. -
15th Admendment
The 15th Admendment to the constitution granted african american men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States or by any state or by or any state on account of of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." Although ratified on Feburary 3, 1870, the promise of the 15th Admendment would not be fully realized for almost a century. -
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1906 Atlanta riot
During the Atlanta race that occured september 22- 24, 1906 white mobs killed dozens of blacks, wounded scores of others,and inflictedconsiderable property damage.Local newsparer reports alleged assaults by black black males on white females were the catalyst for the riot, but a number of underlying causes lay behind the outbrrak of mob violence. -
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Ivan Allen Jr.
Ivan Allen Jr. was an african american buisinessman who served two terms as the 52nd mayor of Atlanta,Georgia during the turbelant civil rights era of the 1960's.Allen provided pivotel leadership for transforming the segregated and economically stagant old south into the progressive new south.Allen took helm of the Ivan Allen compan, his father's office supply buisness.In 1946 and within three years the company bringing in annualof several millions of dollars. -
Leo Frank Case
On April 26, 1913 , Mary Phagan, the child of tenant farmers who had moved to Atlanta for financial gain. Went to the pencil factory to pick up her $1.20 pay for tweleve hours she had worked that week.Leo Frank, the superintendant of the factory, paid her. He was the last person to acknoledge have seen Phagan alive. -
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Rebecca Latimer Felton
Rebecca Latimer Felton was an american white supermacist, lynching and vocate, writer, lecture, reformer, and politican.Who became the first woman to serve in the united states senate. She was the most prominent woman in Georgias in the Progressive Era.She was honered by appointment to the senate.
