Georgia History Timeline Project

  • Jan 1, 1000

    Paleo Indians

    Paleo Indians
    They never stay in one spot they are costaly moving. They always follwed thier food sorces. They always use long large spere heads for large game animals. They developed the clovis point. They hunt large game animals like mammotth,bison,saber tooth, ground sloth. They never trade with other people.
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Archic Indians

    Archic Indians
    They still follow thier food resource from season to season (pattern). They used caves pitthouse and rocks for shelter. They used simple forms of pottry. They used sphere heads are thiner and smaller and pointer, and used the bow and arrow.
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Woodland

    Woodland
    thier were the ones that developed the bow and arrow they helped each other in everything they hunted small game animails.
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Mississippian

    Mississippian
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Hernando De Soto

    Hernando De Soto
    he acme to geogia to finnd gold but he never found it. he brought this deadly dissese that killed thousands of indians.
  • Jan 1, 1500

    Salzburgers Arrive

    Salzburgers Arrive
  • Jan 1, 1500

    Highland Scotts Arrive

    Highland Scotts Arrive
  • Charter of 1732

    Charter of 1732
    Chater of 1732It was the charter that made geogia a free state. People wanted to come to this state to be free from slavery. It was not the frist but not the last but it became a free state.
  • Georgia Founded

    Georgia Founded
    Georgia Founded informationGeorgia was founded by james olgothor. He was the first person to find geogia and make it a state so people can come live here and some people became free.
  • Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin

    Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
    Eli Whitney is best known for his ivention The Cotton Gin this help farmers produce more cotton to people. This had major effect on slavery lots of slaves where beieng bout and sold for this reason. this ivention made more farmers plant cotton. lots of farmers like his ivention .
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    John Reynolds

    He was the first governer of geogia. He arrived at georgia on Oct. 29,1754. when did he leave? He left georgia on Feb. 16,1757
  • Elijah Clarke/Kettle Creek

    Elijah Clarke/Kettle Creek
    Elijah Clarke/Kettle Creek were going on at the same time period. Elijah Clarkewas in the battle with the others and his army. he almost got killed during the battlle.
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    Henry Ellis

    He was the second govner of georgia. He was the second rular of georgia. He wanted to make evry body free. Lots of people started to arrive
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    James Wright

    He was the third govoner of georgia.
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    American Revolution

  • University of Georgia Founded

    University of Georgia Founded
    It was estblished lots of people supported it so it can de sucseful. People came here to study so they can be smart and get a job quiker. People today still go to the unvrstiy of georgia to study to be smart so they can besome one in life
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    Capital Moved to Louisville

    They were moving place to place. Louisville was the third place they had moved to.
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    Yazoo Land Fraud

    The yazoo land fruad is when they give away land to house hold headof the house.They get land for free and plant what they need to plant, so they can get money from thier goods, so they can feed thier family. At this time they cpould not sell thier land or buy land from other people .
  • Dahlonega Gold Rush

    Dahlonega Gold Rush
    at first indians where living thier and then a group of cherokees came an said u must keave this land now yall got 3 days to leave if not we are going to kill yall. They said yall must leave the land because gold was found here.
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    Trail of Tears

    Trail of Tears information
    This was the most terabble thing I seen they made people walk for a long time. Lots of people died becuse of this reason. They had to go thuogh cold climates and hot desserts. Some people were even muerderd so they can get rid of them.
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    Freedman's Bureau

    This event happend to free all slaves and people and got all thier rights back. This prvided medical attetion for all slaves. They provided housing and food for that where slaves. Bout 4 million slaves were freed ,becuase they wouldnt surrender to . If they didnt surrender all slaves would be freed.
  • Battle of Antietam

    Battle of Antietam
    It was one of the worlds bloodiest battles of all time. This battle killed thousands of people. This was one of the people that were very cruel. The day that started thousand of people died many were wounded.
  • Thirteenth Amendment

    Thirteenth Amendment
    The Thirteenth Admendment informationThis when all slaves wuolded be freed they could do anything they wanted they wanted.
  • Fourteenth Admendment

    Fourteenth Admendment
    This admedment gave the right to all slaves to become citizens. They could own things now so they can do things like farm and sell things in public.
  • Benjamin Mays

    Mays's education at Chicago was interrupted several times, first by stints as a teacher at Morehouse and at South Carolina State College. During his tenure at the latter, he met his future wife, Sadie Gray
  • Richard Russell

    He continued to serve when that committee and the Military Affairs Committee were reorganized in 1946 to form the Armed Services Committee. At age twenty-three one of the youngest members of that body. He received appointments to various committees and, building on friendships from his school days, advanced quickly in the political arena.
  • World War II

    Rising to power in an economically and politically unstable Germany, Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi Party) rearmed the nation and signed strategic treaties with Italy and Japan to further his ambitions of world domination. Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, and World War II had begun.
  • Social Security

    Roosevelt had taken the helm of the country in 1932 in the midst of the Great Depression, the nation’s worst economic crisis. In keeping with his other “New Deal” programs, including the establishment of the Works Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps, which attempted to hoist America out of the Great Depression by putting Americans back to work.
  • Andrew Young

    Andrew Young
    He was a lifelong polition. He left his possion of a passture in 1961.
  • Rural Electrification

    The Rural Electrification Act was part of the New Deal. It was, as the name suggests, a law that was meant to make it so that more rural areas would be able to get electricity. This was part of the New Deal’s attempt to stimulate the American economy. helped bring electricity to many rural areas. This had two main effects. First, it improved the quality of life of farmers and rural people everywhere in the US. Second, it improved the strength of the farm sector of the economy by making it
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference put aside their long-standing rivalry, black and white groups across the country were urged to attend, and elaborate arrangements were made to ensure a harmonious event.
  • Pearl Harbor

    December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded.
  • William B. Hartsfield

    He became one of the most best mayor.
  • Holocaust

    Since 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the mass murder of some 6 million European Jews. German Nazi regime during the Second World War. To the anti-Semitic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Jews were an inferior race, an alien threat to German racial purity and community. After years of Nazi rule in Germany
  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act
    The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. First proposed by President John F. Kennedy, it survived strong opposition from southern members of Congress and was then signed into law by Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon B. Johnson.
  • Herman Talmadge

    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. 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. Talmadge, a Democrat, was governor at a time of political transition in the state.
  • 1946 Governor's Race

    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. When the General Assembly elected Talmadge's son as governor, the newly elected lieutenant governor, Melvin Thompson, claimed the office of governor, and the outgoing governor, Ellis Arnall, refused to leave office.
  • Brown v. Board of Education

    The United States Supreme Court handed down its ruling in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The Court’s unanimous decision overturned provisions of the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which had allowed for “separate but equal” public facilities, including public schools in the United States. Declaring that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
  • Sibley Commision

    Sibley Commision
    In an effort to generate support for a "local option" concept in which school boards could determine for themselves whether or not to desegregate. Although the Sibley Commission helped to prevent the violence that accompanied desegregation in other Deep South states, it also provided tactics that local school boards could use to slow down the desegregation process.
  • Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

    Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
    SNCC grew into a large organization with many supporters in the North who helped raise funds to support SNCC's work in the South, allowing full-time SNCC workers to have a $10 per week salary.
  • Lester Maddox

    Lester Maddox
    He dropped out of high school and work in the steel. he was desegreating schools globaly. H died at age 87.
  • Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter

    Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter
    Holmes attended Atlanta's Henry McNeal Turner High School, considered the most prestigious high school for black students in Atlanta's segregated public school system. Hamilton Holmes is best known for desegregating Georgia's universities.
  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    Martin Luther King Jr.
    Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. King, both a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist, had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States, beginning in the mid-1950s.
  • The Albany Movement

    The Albany Movement
    Albany was important because of King's involvement and because of the lessons he learned that he would soon apply in Birmingham, Alabama. Out of Albany's failure, then, came Birmingham's success.
  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    Martin Luther King Jr.
    artin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. King, both a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist, had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States, beginning in the mid-1950s.
  • Ivan Allen Jr.

    Ivan Allen Jr. served as mayor of Atlanta from 1962 to 1970.
    Ivan Allen Jr. served as mayor of Atlanta from 1962 to 1970. He is credited with leading the city through an era of significant physical and economic growth and with maintaining calm during the civil rights movement. In 1965 he persuaded the Braves to move to Atlanta from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Ivan Allen Jr. 1965 He is credited with leading the city through an era of significant physical and economic growth and with maintaining calm.
  • Maynard Jackson Elected Mayor

    Maynard Jackson Elected Mayor
    Maynard Jackson informationJackson served eight years and returnd for a third term in 1990. He atteded school but he was u cicseeful to be in school.acing a legal limit of two consecutive terms, Jackson helped convince congressman Andrew Young to run to succeed him, and Young won easily. In 1977 Jackson married advertising executive Valerie Richardson, whom he had met in New York shortly.
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    Jimmy Carter in Georgia

    He had only served for one term as president. He championed equal rights for every one and that includes women.
  • Carl Vinson

    In 1921 he married Mary Green of Ohio. They had no children. She died in 1949 after a lengthy illness, and he never remarried.A modest man of simple tastes, Vinson shunned the limelight and quietly did his duty. When Congress was in session, he lived in a modest six-room bungalow in Chevy Chase, Maryland; when it adjourned, He retreated to his 600-acre farm near Milledgeville. Unlike most of his congressional colleagues, he rarely traveled. He went to the Caribbean once in the 1920s and never tr
  • Atlanta Braves

    The Braves had a last place finish in 1990 but managed to overtake the Los Angeles Dodgers for first place in the National League West clinching the division on the next to the last day of the regular season.
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    1996 Olympic Games

    This event had graet impact on atlanta from about 5.14 billion dollors. While this was taking place approximently 2 million visitors came to atlanta during this event. All of the buiseneses knew that they ere goiung to make lots of money because all of the people was going to vist this event. Most cities made 100 million dollars of this event the olympic games they were happy for what they had done.
  • Atlanta Hawks

    they were a good team to lay sy thrier game they did very good.
  • Atlanta Falcons

    The 1999 Atlanta Falcons season was the franchise's 34th in the National Football League. The Falcons were unable to match their previous season's output of 14–2, failed to reach the playoffs and therefore would not be the first team to host and play in the Super Bowl.
  • 1956 State Flag

    Most militia flags were sewn by members' wives or other women in the community, and any number of design possibilities could result. The militia flags did have a common element, however: the coat of arms from Georgia's state seal, adopted in 1799.
  • Ku Klux Klan Formed

    Ku Klux Klan Formed
    The KKK was formed as a social group in Tennessee in 1866. The Ku Klux Klan was a loosely organized group of political and social terrorists during the Reconstruction, whose goals included political defeat of the Republican Party and the maintenance of absolute white supremacy in response to newly gained civil and political rights by southern blacks after the Civil War.
  • Fifteenth Amendment

    This gave to all citizens equal rights to vote even blacks. This helps everybody get equal rights. By 1869, amendments had been passed to abolish slavery and provide citizenship and equal protection under the laws.
  • Henry McNeal Turner

    Henry McNeal Turner
    Turner was born in 1834 in Newberry Courthouse, South Carolina, to Sarah Greer and Hardy Turner. Turner was never a slave. His paternal grandmother was a white plantation owner. His maternal grandfather, David Greer, arrived in North America aboard a slave ship but, according to family legend, was found to have a tattoo with the Mandingo coat of arms, signifying his royal status.
  • Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter

    Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter
    Holmes became the first black student admitted to the Emory University School of Medicine. After his 1967 graduation from Emory holmes began his residency at Detroit General Hospital, leaving in 1969 to serve as an army major in Germany. He returned to Emory to complete his residency, after which he became a member of the Emory faculty as an assistant professor of orthopedics.
  • Marther Luther King Jr.

    Marther Luther King Jr.
    Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. King, both a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist, had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States, beginning in the mid-1950s.