Georgia History Timeline Project

  • Jan 1, 1000

    Woodland

    Woodland
    Woodland Indian InformationThe Woodland is living in an area for periods of time.They started farming small tribes and villages.How the Woodland kill their food with more advanced pottery and with Bow and Arrows.they began experiment with growing their own food and farming,Sunflower,squash,ground beans,Maybe some big game animals.Beginning of realigious thinking burying deed in real monds.
  • Jan 1, 1000

    De-Soto

    De-Soto
    De soto came to georgia in search of gold and treasure. killed the thoasands of native americansduring battle of better weapons )Thoasands of natives died from diease brought the nation hlaf the populations jamls kept allowed information about the strikes to pepassed down,
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Paleo

    Paleo
    The Paleo Indians InformationThe Paleo Indians move place to place to find more animals.
    Also he follows his food sources and they arrived using strait and bridge. Paleo used to kill his animals with spear heads,clovis points and long pointy wood sticks.The animals they been kill was big brownish Mammoth,Tiger Tooth and hug bison.
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Archaic

    Archaic
    The Archaic Indians InformationThe Archaic Indians still following their food sources,Both migrates season to season(Pattern),used caves,pitthouses and rocks for their houses.They used simple pottey,spearheads are thinner,smaller and pointed.Archaic eats nuts,berries,deers,turkey,bears,fishes,oysters and shellfishes.
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Missipain

    Missipain
    The Missipian most advanced and first true citizen edivence of Govnorment chiefdom systems of social orger,large Villages and cites. They became most advaned with bow and arrow also pottery states,jewerly advanced stone tools. they werefirst to live off of agicultures, corn,beans ,and squash also samllgame animals(cant act with europeans.
  • Feb 6, 1000

    kettle creek

    kettle creek
    he most important event to occur at Kettle Creek, however, took place on Sunday, February 14, 1779. On that morning 600 American supporters of the British cause, popularly known as Loyalists or Tories, encamped atop a hill in a bend of the creek. They were following an established trail to the nearby Quaker settlement of Wrightsborough en route to Augusta. Aside from the defensive qualities of the position, the hill offered the new arrivals food in the form of cattle penned there.
  • james olgthorpe

    james olgthorpe
    ames Edward Oglethorpe was born on December 22, 1696, in London, England; he was the tenth and last child of Eleanor and Theophilus Oglethorpe. Though frequently in London, the Oglethorpes maintained a large family estate in Godalming, a small Surrey town near London. Here at Westbrook Manor (later the Meath Home) young Oglethorpe grew up
  • the salzburgers

    the salzburgers
    One of the great displacements of people and migrations in European history occurred in 1731-32 when 20,000 Protestants were expelled from the country of Salzburg, which today is a province of Austria. Salzburgers living in mountain valleys and villages for two hundred years - since the time of the Reformation - had been "underground Protestants." Finally in 1731-32, they were forced to leave the land. This act of religious intolerance occurred when Archbishop Leopold von Firmian issued his Edic
  • georgia founded

    georgia founded
    In 1732, James Oglethorpe was given a charter from King George II to create a new colony which he would name Georgia. This was located between South Carolina and Florida. It had two main purposes: to serve as a place where debtors in prison could go to start anew and it served as a barrier against Spanish expansion from Florida.
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    Henry Ellis

    Acoording to the Article Henry ellis was the second royal government of georgia (1750) every popluar govenor brought the people together population growth to foo and 3,600 slaves.
    Great encomic growth more farms,longer farms,larger farms,variety of goods relieve on slaves ,labor making farms ,move poroficing leaves becauseof heat related illnesses.
  • John Reynolds

    John Reynolds
    For instance John was the first royal h=govenor of georgia(1754-1757),October 20,1754 through Febuary 16 1757 Reynolds arrived to cheers and celebration.
    He started the concept of the government. Bi-Camel legsilative (2 Hours) command house of assembly 500 acres of land ,govenor cancelled a appionted by the king. court systems settle dispuuts sendgulating houses runs colony on his own cuting terists, they wanted to the reynolds replaced...
  • Heney Ellis

    Heney Ellis
    For instance he was the second royal government of gerogia(1750)every popluar govnor brought the people together ,population grows to food and 3,600 slaves.
    Great encomic growth more farms longer farms variety of goods believe on slave ,labor making farms, ove poofrideing leaves because of heat related illnesses
  • royal georgia

    royal georgia
    Royal Georgia refers to the period between the termination of Trustee governance of Georgia and the colony's declaration of independence at the beginning of the American Revolution (1775-83). During that period the province was administered in theory by the king of England but in practice by a member of his cabinet known at various times as secretary of state for the Southern Department and secretary for America
  • austin dabney

    austin dabney
    he born a mulatto slave in Wake County, North Carolina, sometime in the 1760s.[1] He moved with his master, Richard Aycock, to Wilkes County, Georgia, in the late 1770s. When the Georgia Militia was called up for the war, Aycock sent Dabney in his place.[1] To address objections that Dabney was a slave, Aycock claimed he had been born free.[2] Dabney became an artilleryman in Colonel Elijah Clarke's company.[3][4] Shot in the thigh during the Battle of Kettle Creek on February 14, 1779, he r
  • eligiah clarke

    eligiah clarke
    Clarke's name appears on a petition in support of the king's government in 1774. However, he subsequently joined the rebels and, as a militia captain, received a wound fighting the Cherokees in 1776. The following year, he commanded militia against Creek raiders. As a lieutenant colonel in the state minutemen, Clarke received another wound at the Battle of Alligator Bridge, Florida. Then on February 14, 1779, as a lieutenant colonel of militia, Clarke led a charge in the rebel victory at Kettle
  • kettle creek

    kettle creek
    The most important event to occur at Kettle Creek, however, took place on Sunday, February 14, 1779. On that morning 600 American supporters of the British cause, popularly known as Loyalists or Tories, encamped atop a hill in a bend of the creek. They were following an established trail to the nearby Quaker settlement of Wrightsborough en route to Augusta. Aside from the defensive qualities of the position, the hill offered the new arrivals food in the form of cattle penned there.
  • James Wright

    James Wright
    Acording to the Article James Wright, he was the third and last royal govenor georgia serving from 1760 to 1782 loyalty a brief.
    Expanded henry ellis police and larged farms , expanded trade self government,major or error captial from savannah. he enforced the stamp act in georgia causing conflict , retuurn to england in 1779 government fromk threr for 3 years . Arrived Oct 11,1760 to july 17,1782 govenor through the aim revolution.
  • aniverstey of UGA

    aniverstey of UGA
    first state supported uninerstey land giant aniverty relplayed , govit legend asembly)uga establishes before the of atomg
    new people moved to georgia to attend college of uga replaced popluation smarter poplutaion.
  • louisville

    louisville
    named in honor of king of france for help in revolution made the capatial city to keep a central retium location for wester expanded legaisters on the nation.Louisville was laid out in 1786 as the prospective state capital. Georgia became a state in 1788. Savannah had served as the colonial capital; but it was considered too far from the center of the growing state. Louisville was named for Louis XVI, who was still the King of France and had aided the Continentals during the successful American.
  • capital movedto lousiville

    capital movedto lousiville
    Organizers envisioned Louisville as a trade center, and Commissioners Brownson, Few, and Lawson purchased 1,000 acres on the south side of Rocky Comfort Creek near the Ogeechee River to take advantage of the river transportation. The original city plan, modeled after Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, included a raised statehouse in the central square, with streets and town blocks radiating out from that focal point and forming right angles.
    e legislature briefly considered making Louisville the home o
  • Constitution

    Constitution
    The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America.[1] The Constitution, originally comprising seven articles, delineates the national frame of government. Its first three articles entrench the doctrine of the separation of powers, whereby the federal government is divided into three branches: the legislative, consisting of the bicameral Congress; the executive, consisting of the President; and the judicial, consisting of the Supreme Court and other federal
  • creek

    creek
    he most important event to occur at kettle creek however take place on sunday febuary 14 1779 on that morning 600 americans supporting of he bristsh cause popilation known as loyalists or toried ,encomiced in a bend of the creek . they were following an established trail to the nearby took place quaker settlement of wright bought en route to augusta aside from the qualites of the postion title him offered the arivals food interform of cettle permed.The white settlers called them Creek Indians.
  • dred scott case

    dred scott case
    Dred Scott (circa 1799 – September 17, 1858) was an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the "Dred Scott Decision." The case was based on the fact that although he married a free black woman named Harriet while he was in Minnesota, and although he resided on free soil for 4 years, and although he attempted to buy his own freedom,
  • antiam

    antiam
    The Battle of Antietam also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South, fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil. It is the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with a combined tally of dead, wounded, and missing at 22,717.
  • Andersonville prison camp

    Andersonville prison camp
    The prison, which opened in February 1864,[7] originally covered about 16.5 acres (6.7 ha) of land enclosed by a 15-foot (4.6 m) high stockade. In June 1864 it was enlarged to 26.5 acres (107,000 m2). The stockade was in the shape of a rectangle 1,620 feet (490 m) by 779 feet (237 m). There were two entrances on the west side of the stockade, known as "north entrance" and "south entrance.
  • shermans march to the sea

    shermans march to the sea
    Sherman's March to the Sea is the name commonly given to the military Savannah Campaign in the American Civil War, conducted through Georgia from November 15 to December 21, 1864 by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army.
  • atlanta braves

    atlanta braves
    The Atlanta Braves are a Major League Baseball (MLB) team in Atlanta, Georgia, playing in the Eastern Division of the National League. The Braves have played home games at Turner Field since 1997 and play spring training games in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. In 2017, the team is to move to SunTrust Park, a new stadium complex in the Cumberland district of Cobb County just north of the I-285 bypass.[1]
  • international cotton expostion

    international cotton expostion
    This engraving shows the 1887 Piedmont Exposition's main building. Located in Atlanta's Piedmont Park, the structure was 570 feet long, 126 feet wide, and two stories high. The Exposition opened on October 10 to nearly 20,000 visitors.
    1887 Piedmont Exposition Main Building
    visitors who, in an era before radio and television, were eager to see new technological marvels on display.
  • william b hartsfield

    william b hartsfield
    William B. Hartsfield was a man of humble origins who became one of the greatest mayors of Atlanta.
    William B. Hartsfield served as mayor of Atlanta for six terms (1937-41, 1942-61), longer than any other person in the city's history. He is credited with developing Atlanta into an aviation powerhouse and with building its image as &quotA City Too Busy to Hate."
    William B. Hartsfield
    He served as mayor for six terms (1937-41, 1942-61), longer than any other person in the city's history.
  • benjamin mays

    benjamin mays
    Benjamin Elijah Mays (August 1, 1894 – March 28, 1984) was an American black minister, educator, sociologist, social activist and the president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia from 1940 to 1967. Mays was also a significant mentor to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and was among the most articulate and outspoken critics of segregation before the rise of the modern civil rights movement in the United States.
  • 1906 atlanta riot

    1906 atlanta riot
    he candidates for the 1906 governor's race played to white fears of a black upper class. In the months leading up to the August election, both Hoke Smith, the former publisher of the Atlanta Journal, and Clark Howell, the editor of the Atlanta Constitution, were in the position as gubernatorial candidates of being able to influence public opinion through their newspapers
  • ivan allen jr

    ivan allen jr
    Ivan Allen, Jr. (March 15, 1911 – July 2, 2003), was an American businessman who served two terms as the 52nd Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, during the turbulent civil rights era of the 1960s. Allen provided pivotal leadership for transforming the segregated and economically stagnant Old South into the progressive New South.
  • Leo Frank Case

    Leo Frank Case
    On April 26,1913, Mary Phagon the child of tenant farmers who had moved to atlanta for finacial gain,went to the pencil factory to pick her $1.20 pay for the 12 hours she work that week. Leo frank, the supertendent of the factory, paid her. he was last person to acknowledge having seen phagon alive. In the middle of the night, the factory watchmen found her bruised and bloodied in the celler and called the the police. The city was against when it heard the news.
  • Herman talmaldge

    Herman talmaldge
    During Talmadge's administration the state enacted its first sales tax, which helped fund a vast improvement in the state's public education system. Talmadge also helped attract new industry to the state and was an early advocate for the burgeoning timber industry. His years as governor can be considered generally progressive in the context of Georgia politics at that time. However, like most southern governors of that era, Talmadge was a staunch segregationist who resisted all attempts to integ
  • lester maddox

    lester maddox
    Lester Garfield Maddox, Sr. (September 30, 1915 – June 25, 2003), was an American politician who was the 75th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971. A populist Democrat, Maddox came to prominence as a staunch segregationist,[1] when he refused to serve black customers in his Atlanta restaurant, in defiance of the Civil Rights Act. Yet as Governor, he oversaw notable improvements in black employment. Later he served as Lieutenant Governor under Jimmy Carter.
  • jimmy carter in georgia

    jimmy carter in georgia
    jimmy carter, the only georgian elected president of the united states held the one term 1977-81. his previous public service included a stint in the u.s navy two senate terms in the georgia generel assembly and one term as govenor of georgia 1971-75. after being defeated election of 1980 he founded the cater center a nonparisan public policy center in atlanta.
  • Martin Luther King jr

    Martin Luther King jr
    was an american baptist baptist minister activists human american and leader in the african american and rights , He is best known for his role in the advancement And rights using non violent civil based on his christian beliefs.
  • andrew young

    andrew young
    Andrew Jackson Young (born March 12, 1932) is an American politician, diplomat, activist and pastor from Georgia. He has served as a Congressman from Georgia's 5th congressional district, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, and Mayor of Atlanta. He served as President of the National Council of Churches USA, was a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and was a supporter and friend of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • holocaust

    holocaust
    The Holocaust (from the Greek ὁλόκαυστος holókaustos: hólos, "whole" and kaustós, "burnt"),[2] also known as the Shoah (Hebrew: השואה, HaShoah, "the catastrophe"), was a genocide in which approximately six million Jews were killed by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.[3] Some historians use a definition of the Holocaust that includes the additional five million non-Jewish victims of Nazi mass murders, bringing the total to approximately eleven million.
  • atlanta hawks

    atlanta hawks
    The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are part of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). They play their home games at Philips Arena in Atlanta.
  • 1946 govenor race

    1946 govenor race
    Georgia's "three governors controversy" of 1946-47, which began with the death of Governor-elect Eugene Talmadge, was one of the more bizarre political spectacles in the annals of American politics. In the wake of Talmadge's death, his supporters proposed a plan that allowed the Georgia legislature to elect a governor in January 1947. When the General Assembly elected Talmadge's son as governor, the newly elected lieutenant governor, Melvin Thompson, claimed the office of governor, and the outgo
  • brown v board of education

    brown v board of education
    Brown v. Mississippi, 297 U.S. 278, (1936), was a United States Supreme Court case that ruled that a defendant's involuntary confession that is extracted by police violence cannot be entered as evidence and violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
  • sibley commissions

    sibley commissions
    he 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. Hooper, however, delayed the implementation of the order for one year to give state authorities time to develop a desegregation plan. This decision presented a problem to state leaders who, after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, had adopted a position of massive
  • coordinting student nonviolent

    coordinting student nonviolent
    he Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), often pronounced "snick": /ˈsnɪk/), was one of the most important organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.[1] [2] It emerged from a student meeting organized by Ella Baker held at Shaw University in April 1960. SNCC grew into a large organization with many supporters in the North who helped raise funds to support SNCC's work in the South, allowing full-time SNCC workers to have a $10 per week salary.
  • atlanta falcons

    atlanta falcons
    On June 30, 1965, the Atlanta Falcons were born. The NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle granted ownership to Rankin M. Smith, Sr., the executive vice president of Life Insurance Company of Georg
  • 1996 olympic games

    1996 olympic games
    from july 19 until august 4 1996 atlanta hosted the centennial summer olympic games an event that was without doubt the largest under taking in the city history the fre of civic leader was to promte atlanta image as an international city ready to play an important role inn global commerce prepartion for the olympic took more than six years after awarding of the bid to atlanta and had an estimated encomic impact on the city of at least 5.14 billion.
  • 1956 state flag

    1956 state  flag
    May 8, 2003, Governor Sonny Perdue signed legislation creating a new state flag for Georgia. The new banner became effective immediately, giving Georgia its third state flag in only twenty-seven months—a national record.
  • Military training

    Military training
    A process which intends establish and improve the capalbilites of military personnal in respective roles.Military education can be voluntary and compluse duty. before any person get autoization to operate techinal equipment or be on the batllefield, they must take a medical.
  • county unit system

    In effect, the system of allotting votes by county, with little regard for population differences, allowed rural counties to control Georgia elections by minimizing the impact of the growing urban centers, particularly Atlanta. All 159 counties were classified according to population into one of three categories: urban, town, and rural. Urban counties were the 8 most populous; town counties were the next 30 in population size; and rural counties constituted the remaining 121. Based upon this cla