Georgia History Timeline Project

  • Jan 1, 1000

    Paleo

    Paleo
    They move to place to place following their food source.source. Paleo Indianans arrived using the berring strait land bridge.They need their point to moved easily when theyre trying to kill animals. They need the colvis point to kill animals and to move out easily.
  • Jan 1, 1000

    woodland

    woodland
    used bows and living in an area for a long period
  • Nov 12, 1504

    hernando de Soto

    hernando de Soto
    Hernando de Soto arrives in Georgia in search of gold and riches.The first European to explore the interior of what is now the state of Georgia was Hernando de Soto. In fact, De Soto entered the state on two occasions during the course of his expedition.
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    Missippian

    The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 to 1600 CE, varying regionally.[1]
  • salzbugers

    salzbugers
    the salzbugers were eexlied from there countrybecause they were protestion.king george had invited then to georgia escpae to the catholic church.they fromed a city called Ebenzer.
  • High land scott

    High land scott
    they arrived in georgia january 10 1736 from scottland. the high land scott are fearless love to fight. Ogethopre want them to fight for the colony. the highland scotts were not afraid of anything
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    John Reynolds

    Reynolds was the first royal Governor (1754-1756). He arrived in Georgia on October,29.1544- February.16,1757. Reynolds arrived in cheer and celebration.He also started the self-government. Reynolds had conflict with the legislature. Reynolds didn't allow the legislature work anymore so he sent them home and ran the job on his own with no help.Citizens didn't want Reynolds to be governor so they sent the King a letter and the king replaced him.
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    Henry Ellis

    Ellis was the replacement of Reynolds in 1757-1760.Ellis was the second royal governor.Ellis was liked by everyone.Because of Ellis the population grow to 10,000 with 3,600 slaves. Henry fostered a good relationship with the Creek Indians. Henry wasn't there for long because he left and got a heat illness.
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    American Revolution

    The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain, and founded thwas a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain, and founded the United States of America.
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    James Wright

    James Wright was the thrid royal governor in governor in geogia. Wright had two major causes. Tries to move the catpil from savnnah ,Enforced the stamp act in geogia causing conflict.
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    Eli Whitney

    Eli Whitney had event the cotton gin.The cotton gin was easy to use.The seed will go the back of the cotton gin because it was to big to go threw the other side were the cotton come threw. Eli didnt know that the cotton gin will being more money.
  • georia platfrom

    The Georgia Platform was a statement executed by a Georgia Convention in response to the Compromise of 1850.The Georgia Platform was a statement executed by a Georgia Convention in response to the Compromise of 1850. Supported by Unionists, the document affirmed the acceptance of the Compromise as a final resolution of the sectional slavery issues while declaring that no further assaults on Southern rights by the North would be acceptable.
  • missiouri comprise

    missiouri comprise
    The Missouri Compromise was a federal statute in the United States that regulated slavery in the country's western territories. The compromise, devised by Henry Clay, was agreed to by the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress and passed as a law in 1820
  • Gold rush

    Gold rush
    Gold rush towns sprang up quickly in north Georgia, particularly near the center of the gold region in present-day Lumpkin County. Auraria became an instant boomtown, growing to a population of 1,000 by 1832. The county seat, called Licklog at the time, in 1833 became known as Dahlonega, for the Cherokee word tahlonega, meaning golden. Within a few months after its establishment nearly 1,000 people were crowded into the settlement, with about 5,000 people in the surrounding county.
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    Trails of tears

    In 1838 and 1839, 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. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march. Over 4,000 out of 15,000 of the Cherokees died.
  • compromise of 1850

    compromise of 1850
    Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished
  • kansas nebrasak act

    kansas nebrasak act
    The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 (10 Stat. 277) 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 within each territory as act Illinois
  • Herman T

    Herman T
    Herman Talmadge, son of Eugene Talmadge, served as governor of Georgia Herman Talmadge, son of Georgia governor Eugene Talmadge, took the governor's office briefly in 1947, and again after a special election in 1948.Herman Talmadge for a brief time in early 1947 and again from 1948 to 1954. In 1956 Talmadge was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served until his defeat in 1980.
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    Lester Maddox

    Lester was a segragationist. He owned a resturnat but it close when the civil war act was over because african american tried to eat there. later that year in 1967 he was elected for governor for georgia. He had African American working in the State offices and work in the prison refrom. And those rules remained until he deid.
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    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. Inspired by advocates of nonviolence such as Mahatma Gandhi, King sought equality for African Americans, the economically disadvantaged and victims of injustice through peaceful protest
  • Andrew Young

    Andrew had served in georgia in many ways. Andrew was the first african american.representation since the age of Hen
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    Maynard Jackson

    Jackson was a the first African Anerican mayor in 1913 of atlanta .he served three trems as mayor.As he was serving there were more african amrican coming to city goverment.Jackson was a helpful man he help the poor he tried to get a balance out numer of poor and the richin the city of atlanta.
  • Hamilton Holmes and Chalayne Hunter

    Hamilton Holmes and Chalayne Hunter
    Hamilton Holmes and Chalayne Hunter was the frist two african american students to enter in to the university of Georgia .they were welcome kindly by their fellow students.
  • atlanta hawks

    atlanta hawks
    The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are part of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). They play their home games at Philips Arena in Atlanta
  • 1946 govenor,s race

    1946 govenor,s 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. In the wake of Talmadge's death, his supporters proposed a plan that allowed the Georgia legislature to elect a governor in January 1947.
  • Brown Vs Bored of Education

    Brown Vs Bored of Education
    The story of Brown v. Board of Education, which ended legal segregation in public schools, is one of hope and courage. When the people agreed to be plaintiffs in the case, they never knew they would change history. The people who make up this story were ordinary people. They were teachers, secretaries, welders, ministers and students who simply wanted to be treated equally
  • atlanta flacons

    atlanta flacons
    On June 30, 1965, the Atlanta Falcons were born. The NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle granted ownership to Rankin M. Smith, Sr., the executive vice president of Life Insurance Company of Georgia.[1] The name Falcons was suggested by Julia Elliott (1909–1990) a high school teacher from Griffin, Georgia who won a contest in 1965. Though 40 other contestants had also suggested the name, Elliott wrote in an essay, "The falcon is proud and dignified, with great courage and fight.
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    The Albany Movenment

    the albany movenment was orfanized by serval civil rights organizations to bring attention to the city albany geogia had many segregated public facilites and a large african american population
  • sibley commission

    sibley commission
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    Reporters gather at Atlanta's city hall on August 30, 1961, the day that the city's schools were officially integrated. The recommendations of the Sibley Commission to the state legislature in 1960 contributed to the desegregation of schools across Georgia.
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    March on washington

    On August 28, 1963, more than 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 fa
  • civil rights act

    civil rights act
    In the 1960s, Americans who knew only the potential of "equal protection of the laws" expected the president, the Congress, and the courts to fulfill the promise of the 14th Amendment.
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    Jimmy Cater

    Jimmy Cater did not belive in segergation.he joined the navy at a young age.Atfer jimmy was in the navy he severd in the senator in Georgia 1962-1964.He was elected for president in 1976 and won the election.Cater wanted to keep peace between the Middle East but couldnt.They had many problems .Cater was not elected again.
  • Atlanta Braves

    Atlanta Braves
    The Atlanta Braves are a Major League Baseball (MLB) team in Atlanta, Georgia, playing in the Eastern Division of the National League. The Braves have played home games at Turner Field since 1997 and play spring training games in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. In 2017, the team is to move to SunTrust Park, a new stadium complex in the Cumberland district of Cobb County just north of the I-285 bypass.
  • Archaic

    Archaic
  • benjamin mays

    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. and was among the most articulate and outspoken critics of segregation before the rise of the modern civil rights movement in the United States
  • Student Non-Violent Coordinating

    Student Non-Violent Coordinating
    The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in April 1960, by young people who had emerged as leaders of the sit-in protest movement initiated on February 1 of that year by four black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina. Although Martin Luther King, Jr. and others had hoped that SNCC would serve as the youth wing of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
  • 1956 State Flag

    1956 State Flag
    On
    The current Georgia state flag was the state's third in twenty-seven months. The new flag features the state coat of arms, surrounded by thirteen stars, which represent the original American colonies.
    State Flag, 2004
    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.
  • Ivan Allen

    Ivan Allen
    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. Allen provided pivotal leadership for transforming the segregated and economically stagnant Old South into the progressive New South.