History of Georgia Timeline

  • Jan 1, 1000

    paleo

    paleo
    They found clues of man's existence in Georgia dateing back more than 12,000years ago. They hunted with spearheads. They ate large animals such as mammoth,bison,the ground sloth and the saber tooth tiger.they also started to hunt smaller animals as the bigger ones slowly died down.
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Archaic

    Archaic
    The archaic period lasted frome 8,000 bc to 1,000ad. That is nearly 1000 years. Archaic indians saw the extinction or dying out of the big animals. So they depended on fishing and gathering nuts and berries. They killed smaller animals like deer,turkeys, and bears.
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Woodland

    Woodland
    woodland period lasted from 1000B.C to 1000A.D. They hunt and grow there own food. They hunt small animals. They use a bow and arrows to hunt there food that they need. they also can hunt and kill fish and smaller animals that they need to eat.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1000 to

    Mississippian

    They grew there own crops. They ate fish and other small animals. They made spearheads to hunt with.They would hunt small animals and outher animals.The time spand is between 100B.C yo 1000A.D
  • Mar 1, 1540

    Hernando de Soto

    Hernando de Soto
    He came to the island in serch of gold. He captuerd and killed many natives .Many more people come to this island in serch of gold and killrd many more natives. de Soto never found any gold and he died not long after that.
  • charter of 1732

    charter of 1732
  • capital moved to louisville

    capital moved to louisville
  • Georgia founded by Oglethorpe

    Georgia founded by Oglethorpe
  • salzburgeirs arrive

    salzburgeirs arrive
    they were protesters of the catholic church.
  • highland scotts

    highland scotts
    they were chosen by the millitery. they helped defind the carolinas. the helped defind the the carolinas from the frinch and the spanish.
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    john reynolds

    he was the first governor. he had a 3 years. john also created a lot of conflict.
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    henry ellis

    he was the second governor. he surved 3 years.
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    james wright

    he was the 3 governor. he surived 22 years.
  • Eli Whitney cotton gin

    Eli Whitney cotton gin
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    american revolution

    there were four reasins for the american revolution.
  • Battle of kettle creek

    Battle of kettle creek
  • Austin Dabney

    Austin Dabney
    He was a slave that became a private in the Georgia millitia and fought aginst the british in the war.
  • university of Georgia founded

    university of Georgia founded
  • Constitutional convention

    Constitutional convention
  • Georgia ratified constitution

    Georgia ratified constitution
    there were 6 people to go sing the document only 4 went and only 2 sing it.
  • inventio of the cotton gin

    inventio of the cotton gin
    It was a machine that could deseed cotton without doing it by hand. Befor it took hundres of man hours. Now it does about 50pounds of clean cotton daily.
  • yazoo land fraud

    yazoo land fraud
  • trail of tears

    trail of tears
    general scott arives with 7,000 troops. many indians died. the others were forced out of the unsetteld land so he cold use it for himself. some of the cherokee had escaped from him and where hiding in the mountins. the rest rounded up and had to move to the west. (4,000 or more died)
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    missouri compromise

    the missouri compromise let some slave states still have slaves and some of them could not have slaves any more.
  • Danlonega gold rush

    Danlonega gold rush
    Gold was found in danlonega.
  • Wrcester VS. Georgia

    Wrcester VS. Georgia
    All whits living on Cherokee land were to take an othe to the governor. 11 missionaries refused including samuel worcester.
  • indian removal act

    indian removal act
    some of the indians ran away and some were forced out of the unsetteld land. some of them died of dehidration and some of disises.
  • como. of 1850

    como. of 1850
    The comp. was 5 separate bills passed in september of 1850. The comp. was greeted and had a lot of relief, but each side disliked the specific provisions.
  • fugitive slave law

    fugitive slave law
    This law was so that you can capture and return the slave to there owner.when the law was passed in 1850 if the slaves were out of there teritory then they sitll could get them.
  • kansas Neb. act

    kansas Neb. act
    The kansas-neb. act was passed by the us congress.It gave the people that lived there to dicied if they wanted slaver or not.
  • dred scott case

    dred scott case
    On march 1857 scott took his owner to court because he was living in a free state then moved to a slave state and he wanted to be free.So he took his owner to court and the said that he was a slave and and he couled not take his owner to court.
  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860
    The united states presidential election of 1860 was the 19thquadrennial.the election was held on tuesday, november 6,1860.
  • Georgia secseds

    Georgia secseds
  • antietam

    antietam
    the battle of antietam was in the south.It was fought on sep,17 1862.It was the biggest fight in american civil war history.
  • Andersonville

    Andersonville
    Andersonville was a prisnor of war camp. It is now a historic site that you can go and look around. It is a big prison it held like 3,000 people in the prison. When the people would come in they would have to biled there own place to sleep and there own shelter to get under if it was to hot and if it was raining. If a prisoner tryed to get away they were to be shot on the spot. When some of the prisoners did get away they were either founded and killed or they died of heat and no food and water.