Georgia History Timeline Project

  • Jan 9, 1000

    Paleo

    Paleo
    Paleo people are nomadic. they move from place to place following there food source. when they hunted they always need a point that will stick them and come out easily and not be stuck in there.
  • Jan 9, 1000

    Archaic

    Archaic
    Still following food sources ,but migrate from season. they used caves ,pit houses ,and rock to establish houses. archaic indians they hunt bear, deer
  • Nov 1, 1540

    Hernand Desoto

    Hernand Desoto
    desoto was a spanish explorer.He gave over 1,000 indians a diease.De Soto had more advanced weapons than the indians. and he had a diease called small pox.
  • charter of 1732

    charter of 1732
    He was formed in 1732 by the charter of1732 the charter was sighned by the King. The charter was always signed by the king no matter what unless he gets mad and he doesnt sign nothing but charter does get signed by the king.
  • Georgia Founded

    Georgia Founded
    Georgia founded was like the people back then they were looking for georgia.The people that came to georgia they were slaves when they came down they were working on farms and they lived in the villages.
  • John Reynolds

    John Reynolds
    John Reynolds arrived in georgia in 1754 - 1757 October 20, 1754 through Febuary 16,1757 Reynolds arrivedto cheers and celebration.He was the first Royal governnor of Georgia and he started the concept of self-government.
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    Henry Ellis

    Henry Ellis was the second Royal Governor of Georgia (1757 - 1760) Febuary 1757 - November 1760. Henry Ellis was very popular governor and he brought people together.
  • Austin Dabney

    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.
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    American Revolution

    The American Revolution is when all the americans and the french battle against eachother and the french left North America. the Britain has huge amounts of war dept.
  • University Of Georgia

    University Of Georgia
    First state supported University in America ( land arent university) UGA was established before the city of Athens. the state of Georgia.
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    Capital Moved To Louisville

    Louisville was named in honor of King Louis of France for help in Revolution. Made the capital city to keep a centralized location for western expansion legislators in the "up country' demanded the capital move to stay centralized based on population.
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    Const.Convection

    Congress had power to manage the Natives (S) Congress managed the convectional army postal service and coining money (W) one vote per state there was no power to regulate trades between states.
  • Eli Whitney Cotton Gin

    Eli Whitney Cotton Gin
    It is very difficult to seed cotton by hand takes a long time cotton it became a very profitable crop."King Cotton" replaced tobacco as cheif crop slavery and the use of slaves increased "Exponatially"more slaves to produce more cotton above every other goods,
  • Yazoo Land Fraud

    The Yazoo land fraud was one of the most significant events in the post-Revolutionary War (1775-83) history of Georgia. The bizarre climax to a decade of frenzied speculation in the state's public lands, the Yazoo sale of 1795 did much to shape Georgia politics and to strain relations with the federal government for a generation.
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    Compromise b/w north and south to keep the balance b/w slave and free states . Missori=slave state. Maine=free state drew alike along missori's southern border a slavery boundary south and north both seccestioned foward the compromise,
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    Trail of tears

    the trail of tears is when the indians are poor and they were forced to be walked with no shoes and thats why their feet were bloody and they all had froast bite.
  • Compromise of 1850

    September 1,1850 Another compromise to keep country together North California as a free state ends the slave trade in Washington D.C.. South : fugitive slave Act all runaway slaves must be returned territories could now decide on the issue of slavery.
  • Kansas Nebraska-Act

    Kansas Nebraska-Act
    http://www.history.com/topics/kansas-nebraska-actA law mandating "popular savereighty" Kansas Nebraska-Act to determine if they are free or slave (prosslavery) and antislavery settlers fight "Bleeding Kansas". The South favors the act."the North is not in favor of the act.
  • Dred Scott-Case

    The Dred Scot-Case sewed slave owner for freedom in a free state. Surpreme court rued that scott was not a citizen but couldn't
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    Benjamin Mays

    Benjamin Elijah Mays was born on August 1,1894 or 1895 in rural area outside ninety six,south carolina. he was the youngest of eight children born to Louvenia Carter and Hezekiah Mays, tenant farmers and former slaves.
  • Ivan Allen Jr.

    Ivan Allen Jr.
    Allen was born in Atlanta on March 15, 1911, the only son of Ivan Allen Sr., the founder of the Ivan Allen Company, an office products company, and Irene Beaumont Allen. After graduating from the local Boys High School, Allen attended the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1929 to 1933, majoring in business administration. After graduation he went to work for his father's company. He married Louise Richardson, the granddaughter of the influential Atlanta businessman Hugh T. Inman, on January 1
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    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.
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    Herman Talmadge

    Herman Eugene Talmadge was born on August 9,1913 in Telfair County.Talmadge was the only son of Eugene and Mattie Thurmond Talmadge. He married Kathrine Williamson in 1937; they divorced three years later.
  • Lester Maddox

    Lester Maddox
    Lester Maddox was born in Atlanta to a working class family on september 30,1915,Lester Garfield Maddox grew up knowing proverty. By 1933 he had dropped out of high school and was working at Atlantic Steel and the works progress Admenistration.
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    Martin Luther King Jr.

    King became a civil Rights activist early in his,career he led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the southern Christain ledership conference in 1957 serving as its first president.
  • Andrew Young

    Andrew Young
    Andrew Young's lifelong work as a politician human rights activist,and business man has been in great measure responsible for the development of Atlanta's ruputation as an international city.
  • Social Security

    Social Security
    In the United States, Social Security is primarily the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) federal program.[1] The original Social Security Act (1935)[2] and the current version of the Act, as amended,[3] encompass several social welfare and social insurance programs. Social Security is funded through payroll taxes called Federal Insurance Contributions Act tax (FICA) or Self Employed Contributions Act Tax (SECA)
  • Rural Electrification

    Rural Electrification
    The funding was channeled through cooperative electric power companies, most of which still exist today. These member-owned cooperatives purchased power on a wholesale basis and distributed it using their own network of transmission and distribution lines. The Rural Electrification Act was also an attempt made by FDR's New Deal to deal with high unemployment.
  • 1946 Governor's Race

    1946 Governor's Race
    In 1946 Georgia had an election for governor that was surrounded in scandal. Eugene Talmadge was elected governor he died before he could begin his term, after this there was a debate over who should be governor in georgia.
  • The Atlanta Hawks

    The Atlanta Hawks
    The atlanta hawks currently own the second longest run (behind the Sacremento Kings) of not winning an NBA title at 56 years. All the franchises NBA championship took place when the team resided in St.Louis.
  • Brown v.Board of Education

    The story of Brown v.
  • Atlanta Falcons

    Atlanta Falcons
    The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are a member of the South Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL).
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    Jimmy Carter In Georgia

    Jimmy Carter,the only Georgian elected as president of the United States,held the office for one term,1977-81.Carter's previous public service included a stint in the U.S Navy,two senate terms in Georgia Genneral Assembly.
  • Atlanta Braves

    Atlanta Braves
    From 1991 to 2005 the Braves were one of the most successful franchises in baseball, winning division titles an unprecedented 14 consecutive times in that period[2][3] (omitting the strike-shortened 1994 season in which there were no official division champions).
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    1996 Olympic Games

    Atlanta hosted the Centennial Summer Olympic Games,an event that was without doubt the largest undertaking in the city's history. The goal of civic leaders was to promote Atlanta's image as an international city ready to play on import role in global commerce.
  • Mississippian

    mississippian indians live in villages and cities contact with europeans.the indians technology is most advanced bow and arrow,advanced pottery,statues,jewelry,and advanced store tools.
  • Woodland

    Woodland
    Woodland indians they live in areas for long periods of time started forming small tribes/villages. There technology is more advanced pottery and bow and arrow.
  • 1956 State Flag

    1956 State Flag
    Throughout the colonal and antebellem eras countless local militia companies organized in georgia,as many other southern states. Militia units needed wepons,uniforms,and flags,so it would be expected some type of flag to symbolize georgia would have developed.