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Jan 1, 1000
Paleo
Paleo LinkThe time period is 12,000 years ago. Paleo indians migrated from asia from bearing strait landbrigde. Nomandic moved from place to place following food sources never established permanent settlement.Their technology was large spearhead called,"Clovis Point".They hunted large game animals mammoth,bison,saber tooth-tiger,ground sloth -
Jan 1, 1000
Archaic
Archaic Link Archaic indians live through 8000 BC-1000 BC. Archaic indians seasonal migration they return to the same spot each season.They live in caves and pithouses. Their techology weapons were smaller and thinner spear heads more pointed. They hunted smaller game animals like fish, oyster, and shellfish. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland
Woodland indians live through 1000 BC - 1000 AD. Woodland indians live in areas for long periods -
Jan 1, 1000
Mississippian
Mississippian IndiansMississippian indians formed a goverment chiefdom. They had more advanced pottery. They shifted to more advanced weapons. They were the first to live of corn,beans,squash. -
Nov 15, 1540
Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto Hernando de Soto explored Georgia in search for gold. The explorers brought dieases and killed 50% of the natives americans. His soilders killed thousands of native furing battles due to better weapons. Then he die during his adventure. -
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James Wright
James Wright InfoJames Wright was the third and the last royal governor of Georgia serving from 1760 to 1782. Wright practiced law and purhase plantations and slaves. He became attorney general of South Carlina in 1747.Wright return to britian occupied Savannah in July 1779 and served as royal governor for 3 more fustrating years. -
Charter of 1732
Charter of 1732King George II signed this charter to start a new colony caused James Oglethorpe wanted to start a new colony. King George II only this charter cause it was named after him. After that was signed James settle to Georgia and he had to get premission from Tomochichi leader of the Yamacraw Indians and he did. Then he started to raised cattle, food, and supplys -
Georgia Founded
Georgia Founded InfoJames Oglethorpe found Georgia. Cause he wnted to form a new world for the people who suffer in jails. But he had to have permission from king George and he had permission. Then he went to Georgia and met the Yamacraw Indians and he had to get permission from Tomichichi and which he did. Then James had got permission and fromed Georgia -
Salzburgers Arrive
Salzburgers Info King George invited the salzburgers to escape the catholics. First settle and named the town Ebenezer (Stone of Help). They moved to Georgia caused of illness,poor, and flooding. New Ebenezer was succesful in developing producing lumber, and cattle farming. -
Highalnd Scots Arrive
Highland Socts Arrive The Highland Scots l;ove to fight. They were not afraid of the spanish. The Scots said that they will beat them out of their own "fort". Oglethopre recrutied them for the purpose of denfending the colony. They settled of the Altamha River and formed the city of Darien. -
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John Reynolds
John ReynoldsJohn Reynolds came to Georgia in October 29,1754. According to the article John Reynolds was a british royal navy captain and served Georgia's first royal governor. Then started to governored Georgia on his own. Cause the had a major disagreement with the legisalture. -
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Henry Ellis
Henry Ellis Henry Ellis was Georgia second royal governor and he was well liked and succesful. He prometed large farm by providing land and allow slaves. Georgia poplation was 10,000 with 3,600 slaves. Georgia had no self-goverment under the trustee. Ellis learned the seizuce of navigation and art of mapmaking. From 1750 until 1755 Ellis carried cargoes of slaves from Africa to Jamaica. -
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Yazoo Land Fraud
YAzoo Georgia legislators were bribed in 1795 to sell most of the land now making up the state of Mississippi. It's borders Atlantic Ocean (East) and Mississippi (West). They sold large tracks of land. They would sell land cheaper rates and the companies would sell it for higher prices. -
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Amercian Revolution
American Revolution The American Revolution is also known as Revolutionary War. The Revolution arose from growing tensions betweeen Great Britian 13 colonies this kicked off in1775. France entered the American Revolution on side of the colonists in 1778 -
Elijah Clarke/Kettle CD.
Clarke led a repel military group. They defeated more than 800 British troops at the battle of Kettle Creak. The battle of Kettle Creak was minor. The battle of Kettle Creak was fought in the American Revolution. It was a small victory, but significant and provided a morale boost for t American cause, after Savannah had fallen two months earlier. -
Austin Dabney
Austin Dabney Austin was a slave who became a private in the Georgia milita and fought against the british during the revolutionary war. He was the only African American granted land by the state of Ga. In recongnition of his bravery and sevice during the revolution and one of the few to receive a federal military persion. He was the only mixed person to fight in the Battle of Kettle Creak. -
University of Georgia
UGAUniversity of Georgia was founded in January 27,1785. It became the first supported university in the U.S. Abraham Baldwin became the first UGA president. They placed in Athens caused it was the center of Georgia. It has a set of 40,000 acers of land. -
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Constitutional Convention
Constitutional Convention Info The Constitutional Convention also known as the "Philadelphia" Convention. Address problems in Governing the U.S.A. Which had been operating under the Article of Confederation following independence from great Britian. Although the convention was infended to revise confederation. -
Georgia Ratifies Constitution
Georgia Ratifies Constitution Georgia elected six delegates to the Constitutional convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. Only four went. Two only went Abraham Baldwin and William Few signed the final document. George Washington had the authority to revise the Articles of Confedation -
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
Eli WhitneySeeding cotton by hand was diffult and time consuming (not profitable). Cotton Gin sped the process and made cotton profitable. Cotton was named "King Cotton".It was replaced by Tobaccoand tobacoo was very poplular and cotton made lots of money.Cotton increase slavery poplution exponential growth. -
Capitol Moved To Louisville
Louisville They switch capitol cause Louisville was in the center. It was easier to move suppies and it wasn't that far away. It was Georgia Third Capital. -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise The Missouri Compromise goal was to maintain balance between free and slave states. Missouri enters as a slave state. Maine enter as a free state. It 's borders created south of Missouri. North=Free and South=Slave. The Missouri Comproise lasted about 30 years. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
Dahlonega Gold rush It started in 1829 and they were called the 29ers. Gold was found in Cherokee Land .Georgia passes a law taking all of the Cherokee Land. Cherokee sue the states of Georgia. Sameuel Worcester sues for the Cherokee. -
Worcester v. Georgia
Worcester v. Georgia Cheif Justice John Marshall rules that Georgia laws does not apply to the Cherokee. Andrew Jackson (president) want all indians remove. Jackson was teh one who signed the "Indians Removal Act". The Indians had to relocate. They had to go west of the Mississippi River. -
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Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears They were kick out of there land cause of there land cause of gold and they didn't want to leave. All remaiming indians must relocate to indians territory west of the Mississippi River. It was a 1,000 mile walk to new land and it was in Oklahama. Same of them bleed to death cause of no shoes adn coldness and died of stravtion. -
Comproise of 1850
Comproise of 1850 this started 30 years after the Missouri Comproise. Cailfornia is going to upset the balance of power. North equals as a free state of Cailfornia. Slave trading in Washington D.C. ends. South equals Utah and New Mexico open to votes on slavery. Fugitive slave law states that runaway slaves must be retirned to the owner. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act A law mandating that "poplular sovereinty' be used to determine free or slave. Poplular sovereingnty=voting on the issue of slavery. Proslavery settlers (Missouri) and antislavery settlers. From Iowa clash and riot. Kansas was called "Bleeding Kansas". -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott Case Dred scoot was slave from Missiouri. His Owner was going to move to Iillinois which a free state. But his owner did't want to take him. Scott sues for his freedom. Court ruled that Scott is property and is not a citizen. Proven that slavery could go anywhere and slavery can travel. -
Battle of Antietam
Near a called Sharpsburg, Maryland. That day 23,000 solders were killed wounded and missing after 12 hours of savage combat. It led by General Robert E. Lee. The Battle of Antietam was a army of Northern Virginia first invasion into the north. The union won the battle. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Five days after the Battle of Antietam, President Lincoln Issued the Emancipation Proclamation. A document ultimately affecting 4 million slaves in United States. Lincoln anted the confederate states to end the war return to the Union. End 244 years of slavery. -
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Battle of Gettysburg
It was in Pennsylvania it was a tuning point in the civil war. It was one of the war bloodiest battle with 51,000 casualties. Assured the North a victory in the war. It was General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North. -
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Battle of Chickamauga
Battle of Chickamauga it was in Chattanooga, Tennensee. The union was 7 miles osuth of Chattanooga. Confederates won, but the Union returned with more troops and won. Gave conrtol of railroads to the North. -
Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
Sherman's Atlanta Campian Gerneral Robert E. Lee, had left 112,000 men inChattanooga under the command of General William T. Sherman. Sheramn took those men and began a campain toward Atlanta. Atlanta was important because of its industries and the facrt it was a railroad hub. -
Leo Frank
Leo Frank Leo Frank was convicted of murder. But so was a named Jim Conley. But JIm Conley lied to the police and later told the truth. Then they found out that Leo Frank had did it. Then he was sentenced to death but change it to life in prison. Then people went after him and hanged him. Later then they had found out that he was innocent and Jim Conley was the one who killed Mary Phagan. -
Carl Vinson
Carl Vinson, recognized as "the father of the two-ocean navy," served twenty-five consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Represtives. When he retired in January 1965,he had served in the U.S. Congress longer than anyone in history. He also set the record for service as chair of a standing committee. House Naval Affairs Committee for sixteen years (1931-47) and its successor, the House Armed Services Committee, for fourteen years (1949-53 and 1955-65). -
Richard Russell
Richard B. Russell Jr. served in public office for fifty years as a state legislator, governor of Georgia, and U.S. senator. Although Russell was best known for his efforts to strengthen the national defense and to oppose civil rights legislation, he favored his role as advocate for the small farmer and for soil and water conservation.Russell also worked to bring economic opportunities to Georgia. He helped to secure or maintain fifteen military installations; more than twenty-five research fac -
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The Holocaust
In the spring of 1945 as allied troops pushed into Poland, Austria, and Germany, noting could have prepared them for what they found. Auschwitz, Buckenwald, Dachau, Trelinka, Bergen-Belson and other concentration camps were set up by the nazis as the "final solution to the Jewish problem". Those who were left alive in the camps were emacited skeletons from years of starvation, disease, cruel treatment, and forced labor. The holocaust was the name given to the the systematic exterminaiton 6 mill -
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a United States federal law of the New Deal era which reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock. Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus and therefore effectively raise the value of crops. -
Agricultural Adjustment Act
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a United States federal law of the New Deal era which reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock. Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus and therefore effectively raise the value of crops. -
Rural Electrication
Rural electrification is the process of bringing electrical power to rural and remote areas. Electricity is used not only for lighting and household purposes, but it also allows for mechanization of many farming operations, such as threshing, milking, and hoisting grain for storage. In areas facing labor shortages, this allows for greater productivity at reduced cost. One famous program was the New Deal's Rural Electrification Administration in the United States, which pioneered many of the sche -
Social Security
In simple terms, the signatories agree that society in which a person lives should help them to develop and to make the most of all the advantages (culture, work, social welfare) which are offered to them in the country. Social security may also refer to the action programs of government intended to promote the welfare of the population through assistance measures guaranteeing access to sufficient resources for food and shelter and to promote health and well-being for the population at large and -
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World War 2
It involved the vast majority of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries.Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust (during which approximately 11 million people were killed). -
Pearl Harbor
Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked -
Atlanta Hawks
Have called Atlanta home since 1968. The Hawks join the Braves and the Falcons as professional sports teams in Georgia.The story of the Atlanta Hawks begins in 1946, when the franchise known as the Tri-Cities Blackhawks was shared by three cities along the Mississippi River: Moline, Illinois; Rock Island, Illinois; and Davenport, Iowa. The team moved Milwaukee, Wisconsin, then to St. Louis, Missouri, where theSt. Louis Hawks won the franchise's only championship in 1958. -
1946 Governor 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.When the General Assembly elected Talmadge's son as governor, the newly elected lieutenant governor, Melvin Thompson, claimed the office of governor, and the outgoing governor, Ellis Arnall, refused to leave office. Eventually, the Georgia Supreme Court settled the controversy. -
Brown v. Board of Education
United States Supreme Court handed down its ruling in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The Court’s unanimous decision overturned provisions of the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which had allowed for “separate but equal” public facilities, including public schools in the United States. Declaring that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,” the Brown v. Board decision helped break the back of state-sponsored segregation, and provided a spark -
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. Georgia also leads the nation in the number and variety of different state flags. The militia flags did have a common element, however: the coat of arms from Georgia's state seal, adopted in 1799. -
Sibley Commission
In 1960 Governor Ernest Vandiver Jr., forced to decide between closing public schools or complying with a federal order to desegregate them, tapped state representative George Busbee to introduce legislation creating the General Assembly Committee on Schools. Commonly known as the Sibley Commission, the committee was charged with gathering state residents' sentiments regarding desegregation and reporting back to the governor. -
Student Non-Violet Coordinating Committee
SNCC formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement, became one of the movement’s more radical branches. In the wake of the early sit-ins at lunch counters closed to blacks, which started in February 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, Ella Baker, then director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), helped set up the first meeting of what became SNCC. She was concerned that SCLC, led by the Reverend Dr -
William B. Hartsfield
Served as mayor of Atlanta for an astonishing six terms (1937-1941 and 1942-1961). He was the one who chose Candler Racetrack as the location for Atlanta airport. Also influence to make Atlanta the southeast's air travel hub. Help the city into civil rights. In 1948, Hartsfield hired 8 African Amercians police officers for restricted duties, a more unheard of thorughtouts most of the South. Atlanta became known as a city of racial moderation. -
The Albany Movement
ccording 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. Martin Luther King Jr. was drawn into the movement in December 1961 when hundreds of black protesters, including himself, were arrested in one week, but eight months la -
March on Washington
200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country. The march, which became a key moment in the growing struggle for civil rights in the United States, culminated in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, a spirited call for -
Civil Rights Act
Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. First proposed by President John F. Kennedy, it survived strong opposition from southern members of Congress and was then signed into law by Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon B. Johnson. -
Atlanta Falcons
The Falcons joined the NFL in 1965. In 1965 the Atlanta Falcons became the first professional football team in the city of Atlanta and the fifteenth National Football League (NFL) franchise in existence. The corporate name for the Atlanta franchise was registered as "Five Smiths, Inc." in honor of Smith's five children. Julia Elliott, a teacher from Griffin, was selected as the winner for her reasoning. She wrote, "The falcon is proud and dignified, with great courage and fight. It never drops p -
Lester Maddox
The tumultuous political and social change in Georgia during the 1960s yielded perhaps the state's most unlikely governor, Lester Maddox. Brought to office in 1966 by widespread dissatisfaction with desegregation, Maddox surprised many by serving as an able and unquestionably colorful chief executive. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) was a Baptist minister and social activist who played a key role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. Montgomery Bus Boycott and the March on Washington, which helped bring about such landmark legislation as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. King was award Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and is remembered each year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a U.S. federal holiday since 1986. -
Ivan Allen Jr.
Served as mayor of Altanta from 1962 to 1970. Continued Mayor Hartsfield's approach to peaceful integration. Mayor Allen ordered all,"Colored" and "White" signs on all entraces and exits to City Hall. Removed restrictions on the African Amercians policeman and integrated the city fir department and city gov. Allen also oversaw contruction of all numbers of public facilities, including a civil auditruction of skyscrapers and office buildings (Peachtree Center, for example was built in 1965). -
Atlanta Braves
The "Braves" name, which was first used in 1912, originates from a term for a Native American warrior. They are nicknamed "the Bravos", and often referred to as "America's Team". In 1914 as the Boston Braves, in 1957 as the Milwaukee Braves, and in 1995 in Atlanta.The Braves are the only Major League Baseball franchise to have won the World Series in three different home cities. -
Mayard Jackson Elected Mayor
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, following the mayorship of Andrew Young. As a result of affirmative action programs instituted by Jackson in his first two terms, the portion of city business going to minority firms rose dramatically. A lawyer in the securities field, Jackson remained a highly influential force in city politics after leaving elected office. -
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Jimmy Carter
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Andrrew Young
Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing to confirm Andrew Young as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. During the hearing, Young, who had come to national prominence as a leader in the civil rights struggle of the 1960s, makes clear his intention to use the democratic process to ensure world peace. He later became the first African-American to occupy this position. -
Herman Talmadge
Herman Talmadge, son of Eugene Talmadge, served as governor of Georgia. Talmadge, a Democrat, was governor at a time of political transition in the state, and he served in the Senate during a time of great political change in the nation as well. As a member of the southern bloc of the Senate.Talmadge received his law degree in 1936 from the University of Georgia.When Eugene Talmadge died after winning his fourth election for governor but before being sworn in, the General Assembly elcted him. -
Benjamin Mays
A distinguished African American minister, educator, scholar, and social activist, Benjamin Mays is perhaps best known as the longtime president of Morehouse College in Atlanta.He was also a significant mentor to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.Benjamin Mays was the president of Morehouse college from 1940 until his retirement in 1967. -
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1996 Olympic Games
1996 Oylmpic Games Centennial Olympics, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, from July 19 to August 4, 1996. Olympic preparations for the Olympics took more than six years. Atlanta and had an estimated economic impact on the city of at least $5.14 billion. Atlanta built park space was created, sidewalks and streets were improved, and housing patterns were altered. During the seventeen days of the Olympics, more than 2 million visitors came to Atlanta.
