Georgia History Timeline Project

  • Oct 11, 1000

    Paleo

    The period marks the first colonization of the new world. They followed herds of large animals such as bison and mamoths. they used spears and bows to hunt. it was cooler where they lived. They were thought to live in Utah. They lived 12000 years ago.
  • Oct 11, 1000

    Archaic

    There time period was 1000 B.C. Some of the tools they used were knives, shell adzes, wooden stakes, and spears. The food they ate was fruits, vegetables, and some meat. Since they were always moving to find food there homes were made of wood and only about 8 to10 feet tall.
  • Oct 11, 1000

    woodland

    there time period was 1000 B.C. The early and middle woodland people used spears and atlatl as the primary weapon. They hunt raccoon, bear, caribou, and moose. They grew corn and tobacco.
  • Oct 19, 1000

    mississippian

    800 AD to 1500 AD. Spent most of there life out doors. Mainly farmers and they lived by rivers and small streams.
  • Oct 19, 1542

    hernadando de soto

    hernadando de soto
    Arrived in1496-1542.Was a spanish explorer. he and his men trveled 4000 miles in search for richies.
  • Georgia Founder

    Georgia Founder
    James Edward Oglethorpe is the founder of georgia. He is a british general. Jarnury 2 1788 was when he founded georgia.
    1696-1785 was his life time.
  • John Reynolds

    John Reynolds
    Johns life was 1713-1788.
  • James Write

    James Write
    Born 12-27-1927 in Martins Ferry Ohio. Known for being a poet.
  • henry ellis

    henry ellis
    he was born in 1721 and died in 1806. he is called the "Georgia's Secound Founder".
  • eli whitney

    eli whitney
    Eli Whitney was an American inventor who created the cotton gin in 1793.
  • american revolution

    american revolution
    It started in 1775 and ended in 1783. It was between the kindom of Britian and the 13 british colonies on the north american conitnent.
  • UGA

    UGA
    UGA was founded in Janury 27, 1785. It is located in Athens Georgia.
  • yazoo land fraud

    yazoo land fraud
    Yazoo land fraud, in U.S. history, scheme by which Georgia legislators were bribed in 1795 to sell most of the land now making up the state of Mississippi (then a part of Georgia's western claims) to four land companies for the sum of $500,000, far below its potential market value.
  • missouri compromise

    The Missouri Compromise of 1820, tensions began to rise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery.
  • gold rush

    gold rush
    Site of the first major U.S. Gold Rush. U.S. Branch Mint opened in 1838, coining more than $6 million in gold before closing in 1861
  • worcester vs Georgia

    In the court case Worcester v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1832. Georgia conducted a relentless campaign to remove the Cherokees.
  • Henry McNeal Turner

    Henry McNeal Turner
    One of the most influential African American leaders in late nineteenth century Georgia. He became an outspoken advocate of back to Africa emigration.
  • trail of tears

    trail of tears
    In 1838 and 1839,Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in Oklahoma.
  • compromise of 1850

    compromise of 1850
    The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United State.
  • election of 1850

    The United States Senate election of 1850 was an election which had the Democratic Party gain one seat in the United States Senate.
  • Georgia Platform

    Georgia Platform
    The Georgia Platform was a statement executed by a Georgia Convention in Milledgeville, Georgia on December 10, 1850 in response to the Compromise of 1850.
  • Kansas-Nebraska act

    Kansas-Nebraska act
    The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 185410 Stat. 277 created the territories of Kansas.
  • Tom Watson Populist

    Tom Watson Populist
    In 1892 Georgia politics was shaken by the arrival of the Populist Party.
  • Dred Scott Case

    the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford. The case had been brought before the court by Dred Scott, a slave who had lived with his owner in a free state.
  • dred scott

    Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme court.
  • Union Blockade

    Union Blockade
    . U.S. president Abraham Lincoln's call at the start of the war for a naval blockade.
  • Andersonville prison camp

    Andersonville prison camp
    Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil War.Held more prisoners at any given time then any confertent camp
  • sherman's march to the sea

    sherman's march to the sea
    The March
    Ohio native and Union general William T. Sherman lost the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in June 1864. In September of that same year his army captured Atlanta before embarking on its March to the Sea, from Atlanta to Savannah, in November. Sherman later chronicled his wartime experiences in a memoir, published in 1875.
    William T. Sherman
  • Battle of antiman

  • The Battle of Antietam

    The Battle of Antietam
    The Battle of Antietam also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, fought on September 17, 1862.
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation
    President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war.
  • The Battle of Gettysburg

    The Battle of Gettysburg
    The Battle of Gettysburg,was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg.
  • The Thirteenth Amendment

    The Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution was to abolished slavery
  • Ku Klux Klan Fromed

    Ku Klux Klan Fromed
    It was formed in Pulaski, TN, and started in December 24, 1865.
  • Fourteenth Amendment

     Fourteenth Amendment
    The Fourteenth Amendment of United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868.The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the law.
  • Fifteenth Amendment

    Fifteenth Amendment
    The Fifteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition.
  • International Cotton Exposition

    International Cotton Exposition
    International Cotton Exposition was a world's fair held in Atlanta, Georgia, from October 5 to December 31 of 1881.
  • Carl Vinson

    Carl Vinson
    He was a united States Representive. He was the first to serve more than 50 years.
  • Eugene Talmadge

    Eugene Talmadge
    Eugene Talmadge served two terms as a democratic. He was the 67th govornor in Georgia.
  • Booker T. washington

    Booker T. washington
    He was born a slave in Virginia. He rose to become the most infuntial speakers.
  • William B. Hartsfield

    William B. Hartsfield
    William was an American politician who served as the 49th and 51st Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson
    Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark United States Supreme Court. Upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation.
  • Richard Russle

    Richard Russle
    He died at the age of 91.
  • 1906 Atlanta Riot

    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. It was characterized at the time.
  • Ivan Allen Jr.

    Ivan Allen Jr.
    He served two terms as the 52nd Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Freedman's Bureau

    Freedman's Bureau
    The U.S. bureau of refugees, Freedmen and abandoned lands, popularly known as the freedmen's bureau, was established in 1865 by congress.
  • Leo Frank Case

    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.
  • WW1

    WW1
    World war 1 is known as the first world war.The war started on the 28th of july 1914.It lasted too november 11 of 1918.
  • great depression

    great depression
    The Great Depression lasted from 1929-1939. It was the deepest downturn in history.
  • Rural electrification

    Rural electrification
    Rural electrification is the process of bringing electrical power to rural and remote areas.
  • holocast

    holocast
    Six million jews were killed because of Adolf Hitler.
  • Civilian Conservation Corps

    Civilian Conservation Corps
    Civilian Conservation Crops was a relief for unmarried men. It started in 1933 and ended in 1942.
  • Agricultural Adjustment Act

     Agricultural Adjustment Act
    The Agricultural Adjustment Act was a United States federal law of the New Deal. which reduced agricultural production by paying.
  • World War 2

    World War 2
    This war was known as the second world war.It started in 1939 and ended in 1945.
  • pearl harbor

    pearl harbor
    The attack on Pearl Harbor also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor.
  • Atlanta Hawks

    Atlanta Hawks
    The Atlanta Hawks are a professional basketball team based in Atlanta,Georgia.
  • Sibley Commission

    In 1960 Governor Ernest Vandiver Jr. forced to decide between closing public schools or complying with a federal order.
  • County Unit System

    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.
  • Atlanta Falcons

    Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are a member of the South Division of the National Football leage.
  • lester maddox

    Lester Garfield Maddox, Sr., was an American politician who was the 75th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia.
  • Cival rights act

    The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race,
  • Albany movment

    The Albany Movement was a desegregation coalition formed in Albany, Georgia, on November 17, 1961, by local activists.
  • Anderw Young

    Andrew Jackson Young, Jr. is an American politician, diplomat, activist, and pastor from Georgia.