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Mississpian
The mississpian period lasted about 600 years (AD). The The The Mississpian people were often called "Mound Builders". They wre known to grow their own food. They grew many plants, such as corn, wheat and carrots. Feather dresses were often worn and may bodies were painted or tattoed. -
May 21, 1542
Hernando De Soto
Hernando de Sto discovered the Mississippi River. In 1539, he decided he was going to go to North America to explore. There he found what we know as the Mississippi River. Soon after that, de Soto died of fever on May 21, 1542 in Ferriday, Lousiana. -
Paleo
Paleo means 'very old'. Paleo lasted 1,000 years and was almost 12,000 years ago. The Paleo Indians are ofeten called "clouis people'. The paleo Indians would move place to place. Paleo artifacts have been found in the north of Georgia. -
Archaic
The archaic period lasted 10,000 years. Archaeologist often find Archaic artifacts in southwest Georgia. The archaic people group lasted 8000 BC through 1000 BC. Arcahc means very old or old fashioned. -
Woodland
Woodland indian tribes lived far east of the plains.They lived in the forest or near streams. That is why they are caled Eastren woodland tribes. The woodland period is often called the "Hopewell Culture'. -
Highland Scots Arrive
The highland scots were from scotland and were famed for their bavery in war. They were invited into the colony in hopes that they could train the weak malitia and defend the colony from the Spanish. The Highlandscots arrived in 1736 and created their own small city calle Darien. They rasied cattle and timber very well, and were opposed to slavery. -
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James Wright
James Wright was the thrid and last royal governor. He served from 1760 to 1782, with a brief interruption early in the American Revolution. The American Revolution lasting from 1775 to 1783. James wright was born in London,England. Then, he came to south carolina in 1730. -
Charter of 1732
The charter of 1732 is the reasons for Georgia's settlment. It is a document based on the rules of the colonist. Its specialness compared to the founding of the other 12 colonies. A total of 72 people signed the doocument. -
Elijah Clarke/ Kettle Cr.
I looked all over the internet for the exact but it was nowhere to be found. The battle of Kettle Creek took place in 1788. Elijah Clarke was apart of the American Revolution. He was wounded many times. -
Salzburgers Arrive
The sallzburgers were germna speaking protesters. They founded the town Ebenezer, which is now called Effingham County. Officially arriving in 1734, they had support from King George ll. They also received support Georgia Trustees after they were expelled from their home in the Catholic principality of Salzburg. -
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Henry Ellis
OKay, I could'nt find the excat date so i jsut did January 1st. Henery Ellis was the second royal Governor. He has been called Georgia's second founder. Under the leadership of Henry Ellis, Georgians learned how to govern themselves and they have been doing so ever since. -
Georgia Ratifies the Counstitution
Georgia elected six delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. Only four went. And only two Abraham Baldwin and William Few signed the final document. -
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American Revolution
The american Revolution tends to be called many different things including, American Revolutionary War, American War of Independence and simply Revolutionary War. The american revolution was a armed conflict between Great Britian and North Anericas 13 colonies. Primary fighting started in North America. The conflict then escalated into a world war with Britain combating France, Spain, and the Netherlands. -
UGA founded
Abraham Baldwin Founded UGA, he also founded ABAC. Women were admitted into UGA in 1918. -
Capital moved to Louisville
Louisville, the county seat of Jefferson County, also served as Georgia's third capital from 1796 until 1807. The capital moved to Louisville becaus when the governers move the capital moved. -
Austin Dabney
Austin Dabney was a slave who fought against the British in the American Revolutionary War. He was born a mulatto slave in Wake County, North Carolina, sometime in the 1760s. -
Costitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Delegates from all over the colonies attended, and they struggled with competing concerns of large-population states and small-population states. George Washington presided over the Convention, and James Madison took detailed notes. Once the Constitution was approved at the Convention, it still had to be ratified by a certain number of states. -
Georgia Founded
Georgia was founded on January 2, 1788. Georgia was founded by Ja good guy named, James Oglethrope. There are two main reasons that Georgia was founded. The first one is that Oglrthrope wanted a safe place for prisoners. The second one is to serve as a buffer bettween at that time, South carolina, and the spanish Florida. -
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
The Cotton gin is a machine that quickly seperates cotton fibers from their seeds. Cotton Gins are often used in today's times, too. So, don't thnk they went out of date. They are used by farmers everyday during cotton season. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
The Yazoo land fraud was one of the most significant events in the post. This was a very bizarre climax to a decade of frenzied speculation. The Yazoo sale of 1795 did much to shape Georgia politics. In the picture, James Jackson, a U.S. senator from Georgia, destroys records connected with the Yazoo land fraud in 1796. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free. Admission of Missouri as a slave state would upset that balance; it would also set a precedent for congressional acquiescence in the expansion of slavery -
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John Reynolds
John Reynolds was a United States General. He was born in 1820. He died in 1863. He was 42 when he died. He papticipated in Gettysburg, Second Bull Run. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
The Georgia Gold Rush was the second significant gold rush in the United States. It started in 1828 in present-day Lumpkin County near the county, Dahlonega. Whee! There is a ride at Six Flags over Georgia based on The Dahlonega Gold Rush. The ride is called "Dahlonega MIne Train". It takes you under the ground the, back up. -
Worcester vs. Georgia
In the court case Worcester v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1832 that the Cherokee Indians
Samuel Worcester, a missionary, defied Georgia through peaceful means to protest the state's handling of Cherokee lands. He was arrested several times as a result. -
Henry McNeal Turner
One of the most influential African American leaders in late-nineteenth-century Georgia,
Henry McNeal Turner was a pioneering church organizer and missionary for the African Methodist Episcopal Church. -
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Taril of Tears
As part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromies of 1850 was in 1888. Just kidding. The compromise was in 1850. ( well..duh) The compromise was proposed as an act to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. A part of the Compromies, also incluided the Fugitive Slave Act and was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
Georgia Platform
The Georgia Platform is an executed statement. The statement was executed at a Georgia Convention in Millidgeville. This was in response to the of the Compromise of 1850. This platform was supported by the Unionist. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. Opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery. -
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. -
Tom Watson and the Populist
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Alonzo Herndon
Alonzo Franklin Herndon was a businessman and the founder and president of the Atlanta Family Life Insurance Company. -
Election of 1860
The Election of 1860 is really only about the 19th election. The canadiates were Linclon, Bell, Breckenridge, and Douglas. -
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Union Blockade of Georgia
The union blockede was a block of georgias coast. The battle between ship and shore on the coast of Confederate Georgia was a pivotal part of the Union strategy to subdue the state during the Civil War. -
Battle of Antietam
This battle was on of the deadliest one day battles in history. 23,000 casulties. The battle ended the Confederate invasion of Maryland in 1862 and resulted in a Union victory. It lasted roughly 12 hours. -
Emancipation Pproclomation
The Emancipation Proclomation was a deed that feed all slaves in the South. The territories of the North still had slaves. even though, the south did not. -
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Battle of Gettysburg
The battle of Gettysburg lasted three days. A full 72 hours. 51,000 casulties died...either killed, missing or captured. The second day in itself ranks as the 10th bloodiest battle of the Civil War. The Battle of Gettysburg lead to the Gettysburg Address. -
Battle of Chickamuga
The battle of Chickamuga was the battle that took place right after the Battle of Gettysburg. This battle lasted two days. More than 20,000 casulties died. Braxton Bragg's army of Tennesee deafeted a union force. -
Andersonville Prison Camp
This prison camp was also known as Camp Sumter. The Camp Sumter military prison at Andersonville was one of the largest Confederate military prisons during the Civil War. During the 14 months the prison existed, more than 45,000 Union soldiers were confined. -
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Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
In early May 1864 Federal forces under Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman began battling the Confederate Army of Tennessee for possession of north Georgia. At stake was Atlanta, major manufacturing center and railroad hub. -
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sherman's 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. -
The 13th Amendment
The 13th Amendment was a new amendment to the constitution that stated that all slaves were freed. -
Freedman's Bureau
The Freedman's Burea was a system that helped the newly freed slaves build schools, build houses, abolished race problems and helped them live a normal life. -
Ku Klux Klan Formed
Founded in 1866, the Ku Klux Klan extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for blacks. -
W. E. B. Du Bois
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 -
John and Lugenia Hope
Lugenia Burns Hope was an early-twentieth-century social activist, reformer, and community organizer. John Hope was an important African American educator and race leader of the early twentieth century. -
The 14th Amendment
The 14th amendment was an amendment that stated all freed slaves were graunteed citizenship. Now, Donald Trump amd others are wanting to be elected as president. Therefore, he can amend it and make it easier to understand. People are often misunderstanding the 14th amendment. -
15th Amendment
The 15th Amendment was an amendment that stated that evertone could vote. No matter your race or what you looked like. It didn't matter if you were a former slave or a criminal, you could vote. -
Atlanta Braves
The Atlanta Braves are an American professional baseball franchise based in Atlanta since 1966, after having originated and played for many decades in Boston and then having subsequently played in Milwaukee for a little more than a decade. -
International Cotton Exposition
International Cotton Exposition also known as I.C.E. This expo was the world's fair held in Atlanta, Georgia. This 'fair' lasted from from October 5 to December 31 of 1881. It planned to show the progress made since the city's destruction during the Battle of Atlanta and new developments in cotton production. A quarter of a million people attended, generating between $220,000 and $250,000 in receipts, split evenly between sales and gate receipts. -
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". -
Leo Frank Case
Leo Frank was a Jewish-American factory superintendent in Atlanta, Georgia who was convicted of the murder of a 13-year-old employee, Mary Phagan. -
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. -
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William B. Hartsfeild
William Berry Hartsfield, Sr., was an American politician who served as the 49th and 51st Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. -
Benjamin Mays
Benjamin Elijah Mays was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th American President who served in office from March 4, 1885 to March 4, 1889 and from March 4, 1893 - March 4,1897. One of the important legal events during this era was the Plessy vs. Ferguson case. -
1906 Atlanta Riot
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The Atlanta race riot of 1906 was a mass civil disturbance in Atlanta, Georgia, which began the evening of September 22 and lasted until September 24, 1906 -
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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, during the turbulent civil rights era of the 1960s. -
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 -
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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. -
County Unit System
Though the County Unit System had informally been used since 1898, it was formally enacted by the Neill Primary Act of 1917. The system was ostensibly designed to function similarly to the Electoral College, but in practice the large ratio of unit votes for small, rural counties to unit votes for more populous urban areas provided outsized political influence to the smaller counties -
Dred Scott Case
This convoluted case, both a cause and an effect of sectional conflict, contributed to antebellum political and constitutional controversy. It also made Chief Justice Roger B. Taney seem a satanic figure to contemporary antislavery activists and many later historians. Did you know...Dred Scott, along with several members of his family, was formally emancipated by his owner just three months after the Supreme Court denied them their freedom in the Dred Scott decision. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. -
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Great Depression
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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. -
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 -
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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. -
Civilian Conservation 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. -
Rural Electrification
Although nearly 90 percent of urban dwellers had electricity by the 1930s, only ten percent of rural dwellers did. Private utility companies, who supplied electric power to most of the nation's consumers, argued that it was too expensive to string electric lines to isolated rural farmsteads. Anyway, they said, most farmers, were too poor to be able to afford electricity. -
Social Security Act
The Social Security Act (SSA) was signed into law by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 14, 1935. The law was one of Roosevelt's major New Deal initiatives during the Great Depression. -
Maynard JAckson Elected MAyor
Elected mayor of Atlanta in 1973, 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. -
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World War 2
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. -
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 military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II -
1946 Governor's Race
In the summer of 1946 Eugene Talmadge won the Democratic primary for governor for the fourth time. His election was assured because the Republican Party in Georgia was not viable and had no nominee. However, Talmadge was not healthy, and his close friends began to fear that he would not live until the November general election or would die before his inauguration in January 1947. -
Atlanta Hawks
The Atlanta Hawks are a professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Hawks compete in the National Basketball Association as a member team of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division -
brown vs board of education
The Brown vs Board of Education was as case that proposed that public schools should be unconstitutional for white or black kids. This case is signficant becasue it repersented the fall of segregation. -
Sibley Commission
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. -
The Albany Movement
According to traditional accounts, the Albany Movement began in fall 1961 and ended in summer 1962. . Martin Luther King Jr. was drawn into the movement in December 1961 when hundreds of black protesters, including himself, were arrested in one week. -
March on Washington
This is where MLK delivered the " I Have A Dream" speech. This march was establishe to put an end to segregation. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the nation's premier civil rights legislation. The Act outlawed discrimination on the basis of 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
Richard Brevard Russell, Jr. as 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 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 -
Jimmy Carter in Georgia
Jimmy Carter, the only Georgian elected president of the United States, held the office for one term, 1977-81. His previous public service included a stint in the U.S. Navy, two senate terms in the Georgia General Assembly, and one term as governor of Georgia. -
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Andrew Young
Andrew Young's lifelong work as a politician, human rights activist, and businessman has been in great measure responsible for the development of Atlanta's reputation as an international city. -
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 undertaking in the city's history. -
1956 State Flag
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 o
