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Jan 1, 1000
Paleo
The Paleo haunted wild animals and ate them. They haunted mammoths, bison, ground sloth, and saber tooth tiger. They used spears to kill the animals. The Paleo people existed 12,000 years ago. -
Jan 1, 1000
Woodland
They began to clear fields and plant and harvest food. They planted crops like sunflowers, squash, ground beans, maize, & early times of corn. They farmed & produced enough food fornthe season. -
Period: Jan 1, 1000 to
Mississippian
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Mar 1, 1540
Hernando de Soto
Hernando enters Georgia in search of gold. Hernando does not find any gold. His expedition fails. He captured and killed many natives. Many of his people dies of the spread of dieseases from the Indians. -
Geogia founded by Ogelthrope
James was a British Parliment leader. He was the founder of the conly of Georgia. He was born in Surrey. On Febuary 21, 1732 he established the first Masonic Lodge within the British Colony of Georgia. -
Charter of 1732
A charter is a legal document that grants special rights and privalges.The charter of 1732 granted all land between Savannah and the Altimalhal Rivers exteding west to the south seas to James Oglethrope and the trustees. Also, the charter said there were no blacks, liquor dealers, lawyers, or catholics were not allowed to own land, hold polictal office, or be given money. -
Salzburgers Arrives
300 of these people wounded up in Georgia, Fell under charity because they were facing perscution. Seetled in a town called Ebeneezer, but moved because of bad soil, so they moved to New Ebeneezer. -
The Higland Scotts Arrive
They were brought in becuase they could fight. They also had great military background. They were recrooded becuase they established the colony of Georgia settled on the banks of the Altimaha River. -
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John Reynolds
Reynolds was Captain of the British Navy.He sturuted the government court system. Also he resisted challlenges to authority. He was the weakest governor. -
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Henry Ellis
Henry Ellis was the 2nd founder of Georgia.He developed self-government. He also was the first to develop counties in Georgia. He was very popular. He developed a friendship with the Creek Nation. He was later forced out of offic ebecasue of health. -
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James Wright
Wright was Georgia's 3rd and finally royal governor. James was very popular. He helped keep the Revelotion down in Georgia after it started.He encourged frontier settling. He also encouged the stamp Act, which set off the Reveloution.He fled from Georgia in 1776, but returned to Savannah in 1779. -
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American Reveloution
Although Britian won they accumlated Great war debt. They issued taxes on colonist to help pay. The Declearation of Inpendance stated the colony from British rule. The revelotion fighting started before it was even signed. -
Elijah Clarke and the Battle of Kettle Creek
Clarke led troops to the Battle of Kettle Creek. He defeated 800 British soldiers. The end result was patriots took needed weapons and horses, and raised the spirit of the Georgia Milita. There is a couty named Clarke County; it's named after him. -
Austin Dabney
Austin Dabney was the first mulatto, which is a mixed of parentage, to fight in the American Revelotion.He was injured in the batle. He recieved land in Madison County for his service in the Georgia Miltia. -
Articles of Confederation ratified by all 13 states
It was the first form of constitution for the new nation. It divided power between national and state power governments. Each stste had one vote regardless of the population or sides. In 1787 all states finally agreed. -
University of Gorgia Established
Athens ws named by the center of learning in Greece. Abraham Baldwin was the first presdient. It was the first University supported in the United States. Established in 1785. -
Constitution Convention of 1787
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Ratifying the U.S. Constitution
Georgia ratified the constitution. The two signers were Abraham Baldwin & William Few. Georgia was the 4th state to ratify the constitution. Georgia ratified the constitution for selfish reasons. Georgia wanted federal government to have power to unite the country. -
Invention of the cotton gin
Eli Whitney invnted the cotton gin. it was a machine to make it easier to seperate cotton from seeds. It took hundred of hours for men to do it. Until the cotton gin was nvented. This was cotton demand would go up. -
Fugitive Slave Law
The fugitive slave laws were passed in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of run away slaves. Article six of the constsitution required that people go after run away slaves. The Fugitive Slave Law was mechanism. The goverment could pressure any run away slave into another territory. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
The Yazoo LAnd Fraud was when the legislature and governor was bribed by the people to sell land for market prices. It was the most widley land fraud in the U.S. The law was passed to have land sold for 1 cent an acre. Later Georgia paid penalties & lost land. The government reverned the act in 1796. -
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Capital moved to Louisville
Savannah and Augusta served as the 1st two capitols. Moved to more centeral locatio, Geo. , & population. king Louis XVI of France for Ally. -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri was ad,itted as a slave state, Maine as a freee state, south as a slave, and north as a free state.The issue started to divide the nation. Its purpose was to maintain balance between slave and free states. -
Dahloonega Gold Rush
Gold was discovred in Dahlonega in 1829.It was the single event that led to the Indian Removal Act. There was a law passed that no Cherokee could speak against white men in Court. The white men could killl Cherokee with little or no pushinment. Cherokke laws were null & void. -
Indian Removal Act
This act occured on May 28, 1830. Trade in existing land in the states for unsettled land west of the Mississippi River. Some tribes willingly left. Others were forced out by federal troops. This led to the Trail of Tears. -
Worchester v.s. Georgia
All whittes living on Cherokee land were required to take a oath of allegaince to the governor, 11 missionares disagreed and were sent to jail Such as, Sammuel Worvhester. they took his case to Suprme Court & the court ruled in his favor. The president and governor refused to enforce the rling. AV signed allegiance. -
Rebecca L. Felton
This lady was the first women to serve in office. She only served fro one day, it was more of an honor. Her hubsand was William Harrell Felton. He was a member of Georgia House of Reps. She was a society women. -
Trail of Tears
General Scott arived with 7,000 troops. Many Indians died of dieseas on the journey & starvation. Spme cherokees escaped & hid in the mountains in North Carolina. The rest rounded up and moved out west. 4,000 of more died. -
Compromise of 1850
Californa was admitted as a free state, new states had popuklar sovernity to decide for themselves to be a slave or freee state. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was a runaway slave. He tried to go to court and sue his owner. He learned that slaves could not sue. He was later sent back to his owner. -
Kanas Nebraska Act
This act appealed the Missouri Compromise. It also premitted slavery in Missour southern states. -
Georgia Secceds from the Nation
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Georgia Seceeds from the Union
Secession began after president Lincoln's election. They believed the republican party was anti- slavery. Georgia's seceesion convention was almost evenly divided between immediate secessionicts and those who opposed, who thought Lincoln had't done anything. -
Antietam
It was the bloodiest one-day battle in the civil war to ever take place. After this battle the Emanciapation Proclamation was established. -
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Chickamauga
It was the biggest battle fought in GA. The US army soldiers turned back to the union soldiers. The confederate soldiers were lef by Braxron Bragg. -
Sherman's March Sea
In 1864 General William T. Sherman started in Atlanta and ended up in Savannah. He destroyed resources and suppplies when he reached Savannah he sent a telegra, to Licoln. -
13th Amendment
This amendment offically abolshied slavery. It was the first reconstruction amendment, This amendment freed all the slves. -
14th Amendment
This amendment made all freeed slaves citizens. It also premitted equal treatment. It hepled enforce the 13th Amendment. -
15th Amendment
This amenment gave black males over the age of 18 the right to vote. It also enforced Prohibitism. -
Jim Crow Laws
the Jim Crow Laws were racial segeration. the mandatated racial segeration in all public areas. the seperation in practice made all African Americans feel inferior. Some examples of Jim Crow laws are public schools, public places, & public transportation. -
Plessy vs. Furgerson
A landmark in the U.S. Surpreme Court descion in jurispurdance on the upholding the constitutional of state laws requring racial segergation. The Surpreme Court voted seperate but equal. -
1906 Atlanta Riot
White mobs killed dozens of black people. The news reported black men attacking white females. Atlanta was the hub of economy. The cause of this was becuae there were so amny people and not enought jobs. White people were getting more jobs than black people. -
Leo Frank Case
This case was on of the most notoroius and highly publized cases in the legal anals in GA. A jewish man named Leo Frank was accused of kllling 13 year old Mary Phagan. Jim Conley was also a sspect in this case. In the end a groip of KKK,s kidnapped Lso Frank and hung him. -
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WW2
This war began after the Great Depression. It was a sad war against the Japanese. The first German serviceman was killed by a japanese soldier. The first american soldier was killed by a Russian soldier. 12,000 bombers were shot in this war. -
County Unit System
This system was dominated by a Democractic Party. They passed the Neil Primary Act. This act formilized had operated as in informal system. This system continued to be used in Deomcratic primaries. -
Jimmy Carter
He was the 39th president of the U.S. He served from 1977 to 1981. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Before he was president he was a naval officer. While he was president he created the Department of Edu. & the Department of Energy. -
Black Tuesday
The most catastrophic stock market crash in the history of the US. Black Tuesday too place October 29, 1929. The estate values were cpntious riding. -
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Great Depression
A severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceeding tp WWII. It was the deepest and longest most underspread depression of the 20th century. It affected the rich & poor. -
FDR elected
This election took place during the backdrop of the Great Depression. Roosevely blammed Hooover for the poor economy. Roosevelt promised recovery with the New Deal. -
Mayor Hartsfield
Hartsfield served 6 terms as mayor. He is widely acknowledged for his leadership in making Alanta an activation hub fof the southease. He also helped lead the city to civil rights. -
Pearl Harbor
A suprise strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the US Pearl Harbor navl base in Hawaii. This attack led to WW2. The empire of Jpan was planning in the southease Asia againist overseas terrotories of the united Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the US. The attack commerced at 7:48. Naval battleships were damaged. -
FDR dies in Warm Springs
On a clear spring day at his Warm Springs, Fraklin sat in his living room with Lucy Mercer, the women he was having an affair with. Around 1 p.m. he complained of a bad pain in the back of his head. Immediataly he cllasped tot the floor. One of the women called a doctor. The doctor gave him shot to try to save him, but it was too late, he was gone. -
Holocaust
The holocaust is a name given to the systemic extermiantion of 6 billion Jews. The people were killed by Nazi before and during WW11. In the camps many died of starvation. The deaths of jews, poks, czechs, russians, gypies, homosexuals, and mentally or physically diables all fit Hiliters plan to get rid of people he called "inferior" people. -
Brown vs Broad of Edu.
In 1950 7 year-old Linda Brown, a black student tried to enroll in a all white school in Topeka, Kansas. She was denied. The NAACP helped Browns father sue the ZTopeka Broad of Edu. The case reached surpreme court. It ruled "seperate but equal". -
1956 State Flag
In 1956 Geogia's state flag was changed to incorpate the St. Andrews cross, a confederate battle emblem. african Americans were offended by references to slvery and state past. The use of the confederate symbol was damaging Georgia. Georgia's tourist indusrty, costing the state millions in loss convention. -
Sibley Commison
The Sibley Commison was the brainchild of Griffin Vandivers cheif of staff. In 1959 U.S. district court judge Frank Hooper ruled unconstitutional. Atlanta segerated public schools system and ordered it integerated. the governor chose John Sibley to head commison. A respected Atlanta businessman, lawnyer, and president of University of GA. He was chosen because he opposed integeration. -
First African Americans at UGA
The 1961 desergation of the University of GA by Hamiliton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter is considered a defining moment in civil rights history, leading to the other instsitutions od the Deep South. The first students there were Holmes and Hunter. They both had attended an all black school in Atlanta. they arrived on North Capus pn january 9, 1961. -
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Albany Movement
This was the first mass movement in modern civil rights era. 1,000 african americans in Albany resulted in jailing. Martin Luther King Jr. was drawn into the movenment in Decemember 1961. Eight months later he left & admitted he had failed the accomplishment. -
Mayor Allen
Allen was a businessman. HE continued Mayor Hartsfield approach to peaceful segergation. Allen also oversaw construction pf a number of public factulies including the civil autoridum. The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transport Aurothity. The rapis sale began un 1979. -
March on Washington
Thsi march was organized by a group of civil rights leaders and religous oraganzations. Thousands of Americans headed to Washington on AUgust 27th in 1963. On August 28th M.L.K. gave his "I Have A Dream" speech. -
Maynard Jackson
He qas elected president in 1973. He was the first african american mayor of the United States. He served of 8 years and then returned for a third term in 1990. He was born on March 23rd in Dallas. His father was a minister at his home church. -
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1996 Summer Games
Atlanta hosted the centenial summer olympic games, an event that was without a doubt the largest undertaking event in history. Preperation for the games took more than 6 years. The economic impact of the city ws at least $5.14 billion dollars. -
Archaic
Improved fishing, hunted deer, turkey, & bear. They traded bowls to people in other regions for tools.
