Georgia History Timeline Project

  • Jan 1, 1000

    Paleo

    They moved over large areas on foot or by water, in small bands of 25 to 50
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Archaic

    They are of ancient Greek history that followed the Greek Dark Ages
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Woodland

    They moved from New England and Maryland to the Great Lakes region the into the area of Maine.
  • Jan 1, 1000

    International Cotton Exposition

    (I.C.E) was a world's fair held in Atlanta, Georgia, from October 5 to December 31 of 1881. The location was along the Western & Atlantic Railroad tracks near the present-day King Plow Arts Center development in the West Midtown area.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1500 to Jan 1, 1542

    Hernando de Soto

    He was a spanish explorer who sailed the Atlantic Ocean and was the European to explore FL
  • GA founded

    James Ogletghorpe was given a charter from King George ll to create a new conlony.
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    Yazoo Land Fraud

    A scheme by which GA legislators were tricked into selling most of there land.
  • Atlanta Braves

    The Atlanta Braves are an American professional baseball franchise based in Atlanta since 1966
  • Carl Vinson

    Carl Vinson was a United States Representative from Georgia. He was a Democrat and the first person to serve for more than 50 years in the United States House of Representatives. He was known as "The Father of the Two-Ocean Navy"
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    William B Hartsfield

    William Berry Hartsfield, Sr., was a American politician who served as the 49th and 51st Mayor of Atlanta, Ga
  • Benjamin Mays

    Benjamin Elijah Mays was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
  • Tom Watson and the Populists

    Nominated by the Populist Party as its vice presidential candidate in 1896, he achieved national recognition for his egalitarian, agrarian agenda. Although his terms of elective office were short, for more than thirty years his support was essential for many men running for public office in Georgia
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
  • 1906 Atlanta Riot

    The Atlanta race riot of 1906 was a mass civil disturbance in Atlanta, Georgia (USA), which began the evening of September 22 and lasted until September 24, 1906. It was characterized at the time by Le Petit Journal and other media outlets as a "racial massacre of negroes".
  • John and Lugenia

    Under Hope's leadership from 1908 to 1935, the Neighborhood Union carried out health education campaigns, demanded better conditions at schools, and sponsored arts and recreational activities for youth. In addition the union "cleaned up" African American districts of undesirable moral characters, which included gamblers and prostitutes
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    Ivan Allen jr.

    Ivan Allen, Jr., was an American businessman who served two terms as the 52nd Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia and during the turbulent civil rights era of the 1960s.
  • Leo Frank Case

    The Leo Frank case is one of the most notorious and highly publicized cases in the legal annals of Georgia. A Jewish man in Atlanta was placed on trial and convicted of raping and murdering a thirteen-year-old girl who worked for the National Pencil Company, which he managed.
  • Herman Talmadge

    Herman Eugene Talmadge, Sr., was a Democratic American politician from the state of Georgia. He served as the 70th Governor of Georgia briefly in 1947 and again from 1948 to 1955.
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    World War 1

    World War I, also known as the First World War, or the Great War, was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918.
  • Booker T. Washington

    Booker Taliaferro Washington was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community.
  • Jimmy Carter

    James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician and author who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Carter Center.
  • Alonza Herndon

    Alonzo Franklin Herndon was a businessman and the founder and president of the Atlanta Family Life Insurance Company
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    Great Depression

    The Great Depression (1929-39) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors.
  • Martin Luther King Jr

    He was the Arfican leader in the Race rights
  • Agricultal 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
  • Andrew Young

    Andrew Jackson Young, Jr. 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.
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    Holocaust

    The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide in which approximately six million Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime and its collaborators.
  • Rural Electrification

    The Rural Electrification Act of 1936, enacted on May 20, 1936, provided federal loans for the installation of electrical distribution systems to serve isolated rural areas of the United States. The funding was channeled through cooperative electric power companies, most of which still exist today.
  • Maynard Jackson Elected Mayor

    Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr. was born on March 23, 1938, in Dallas, Texas, where his father, Maynard H. Jackson Sr., was a minister. The family moved to Atlanta in 1945, when Maynard Sr. took the pastorship at Friendship Baptist Church. Maynard Jr.'s Atlanta roots ran deep.
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    World War II

    World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, though related conflicts began earlier.
  • Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter

    amilton E. Holmes. Hamilton E. Holmes (8 July 1941 – 26 October 1995) was an American orthopedic physician. He and Charlayne Hunter-Gault were the first two African-American students admitted to the University of Georgia.
  • Pearl Harbor

    The attack on Pearl Harbor, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, the Hawaii Operation or Operation AI by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, and Operation Z during planning, was a surprise .
  • Civilian Consevation Corps

    The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal.
  • 1946 Governor's Race

    For a brief period of time in 1947, Georgia had three governors. Eugene Talmadge won election to a fourth term as Georgia's governor in 1946, but died before his inauguration. To fill the vacancy, Eugene's son, Herman, was appointed by the state Legislature.
  • Eugene Talmadge

    Eugene Talmadge was a Democratic politician who served two terms as the 67th Governor of Georgia from 1933 to 1937, and a third term from 1941 to 1943. Elected to a fourth term in November 1946, he died before his inauguration.
  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education (1954), now acknowledged as one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century,
  • Student Non-Violent Committee

    The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, often pronounced "snick": was one of the most important organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
  • Sibley Commission

    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.
  • 1956 State Flag

    On May 3, 2003 the new flag came
  • The Albany Movement

    The Albany Movement was a desegregation coalition formed in Albany, Georgia, on November 17, 1961, by local activists, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
  • County Unit System

    The County Unit System was a voting system used by the U.S. state of Georgia to determine a victor in statewide primary elections from 1917 until 1962.
  • Web Dubois

    William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community
  • March on Washington

    The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington as styled in a sound recording released after the event, was one of the largest political rallies
  • Civil Rights Act

    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
  • 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 in the National Football League
  • Richard Russell

    an American politician from Georgia. A member of the Democratic Party, he briefly served as speaker of the Georgia house, and as Governor of Georgia (1931–33) before serving in the United States Senate for almost 40 years, from 1933 until his death from emphysema in Washington, D.C. in 1971. As a Senator, he was a candidate for President of the United States in the 1948 Democratic National Convention, and the 1952 Democratic National Convention.
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    1996 Olympic Games

    The 1996 Olympic Games was held in Atlanta and sadly it was bombed
  • Lester Maddox

    Lester Garfield Maddox, Sr., was an American politician who was the 75th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971.
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    Mississippian

    They grew their food in small gardens and used tools like stone axes, and digging sticks. Those are just a few of the ones they used