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Jan 1, 1000
Paleo
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Jan 1, 1000
Archaic
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Jan 1, 1000
Woodland
They made pottery. Held religous cerominies. They eat Deer, turkey, and other smaller animals.fished and trapped fish, oysters. picked wild berries. lived in the first villages. -
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Mississippian
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Mar 1, 1540
Hernandez de Soto enters Georgia
He was Spannish. Came to Ga. brought the fist horses. Only came for gold. Started mid FL. he started there and went up and went in a circular path. He died in Lousinia. Came on boats with people. They had guns. -
Charter 2 of 1732 issued by King Gorge II
A charter is a Legal document that grants special rights. It said they could have all land betweenthe Savannah river and Allamaha river then headingto the pacific. Trustees couldn't own land, hold political office, or be payed for work. Blscks, liquor, and Cathlics warent allowed. Trustees had authority for only a limited amout of time. -
Ga founded by James Oglethorpe
they came on a ship named Anne landed on yamacraw bluff. They named it Georgia after King George. Found a small tribe cheif was Tomichichi. -
Highland Scotts arive
They were there to protect from the Spanish. They warent afraid of them. They were big and had a military like qualities. They were put and settled on the border of Georgia.They lived in forts. -
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American Revolution
There were 4 causes to the Revolution war. The French were ales with the Indians. Colonist didnt follow land laws. Boston tea party; put britan in more debt. July 4, 1776 congress approved the dec. of indapendance. -
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James Wright
The last Royal Gov. Popular and able admistrator and servant of the crown. Played a key roll of retarting. -
Elijah Clarke and Battle of Kettle Creek
Elijah led troops at Kettle Creek. They Defeated a group of 800 British soldiers. He has a county named after him.They raised the militia spirits. -
Austin Dabney
Freeborn mulatto. First mixed to fight for Georgia. Recieved land in Madison county for fighting. He was a Black and White mix. -
Articles Of Confederation Radified by all 13 States
It wa the first form of constitution for the new nations. Devided the power between state and federal. Congress could declare war, sign treies, print money, deliver mail, and make laws. state could collect taxs, issue its own money, and support its own military. -
yniversity of Georgia Established
It was the first state suporte university. Atens GA. named after center of learning, Athens Greece. Abraham Baldwin was first president of University. -
Constitutional Convention Of 1787
Great compromise was put in. They made a Bi-cameral legslature. They could count 3/5 of slaves for the population. Bill of rights was made. First ten amendments. the constitution granted rights for citizens. -
Georgia ratifies U.S. Constitution
Abraham Baldwin and William Few were GA's Reps. and the two signers of the constitution. Georgia ratifies for selfish reasons. They wanted the federal gov. to have more power to unite the country. They needed Fed. gov. to help fight natives. The 4th state to ratify. -
Invention of Cotton Gin
Made by Ely Whitney. Before took 100's of man hours. After could make 50 Lbs an day. Made from belts, pullies, a roller, and spikes. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
Land sold that didnt exist. Gov. bribed to sell to private land companies for 1¢ an acre. They sold it for much higher prices. -
Capital moved to Louisville
Savannah and agusta were the first two capitals. Moved to a more central location and population wise. Names after King Lous XVI of France, War ally. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 making Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. With the exception of Missouri, this law prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36° 30´ latitude line. Three years later the Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision, which ruled that Congress did not have the authority to prohibit slavery in the territories. -
Dohlonega Gold Rush©
Gold found in summer od 1829. Put many harsh events on the Indians. They could be killed. They were forced to move.mThey warent entiteled or any rights to the gold. -
Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act was a law passed by Congress on May 28, 1830.The act was strongly supported by non-native people of the South, who were eager to gain access to lands where indians livedby the Five Civilized Tribes. Christian missionaries, most notably Jeremiah Evarts, protested against its passage. -
Worcester vs. Georgia
n the 1820s and 1830s Georgia conducted a relentless campaign to remove the Cherokees, who held territory within the borders of Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee at the time.Worcester was influential in the Cherokee resistance movement and enacted a law that stopped "white persons" from residing within the Cherokee Nation without permission from the state. -
Trail of Tears
The indians lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida–land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations. By the end of the decade, very few natives remained anywhere in the southeastern United States. -
Rebecca Latimer Felton
she was 87 years, nine months, and 22 days old, the oldest freshman senator to serve in senate. she was also the only known woman to serve. -
Comp. of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed in the United States in September 1850. The slave trade was banned in Washington D.C. The bills were introduced as a package, known as omnibus bill. The bill failed to pass in early 1850 as President Zachary Taylor strongly opposed it but his sudden death paved its path through Congress. Sectional issues were so deeply polarized that the omnibus bill united the opposite people runniing to help them. -
Fugative Slave Law
Part of the Comp of 1850. Made all people who saw escaped slaves be returned.This was one of the most controversial elements of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a "slave power conspiracy". -
Kansas-Nebraska act
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. -
Dred Scott Case
Tried to sue owner. Supreme court said no since he was a slave. When he got back he filed a law suite. -
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International Cotton Expo.
In the years following the Civil War Atlanta's leaders hosted a series of three "cotton expositions" that were important to the city's recovery and economic development. These expositions helped Atlanta stake its claim as the center of the New South. -
Georgia sucedes from the Union
Secession began after President Lincoln’s election in the belief that his Republican Party was aggressively anti-slavery. As the largest and most populous Deep South state, Georgia was crucial to the success of the secessionist movement. -
Antietan
Most gruisem 1 day battle. The morning assault and vicious Confederate counterattacks swept back and forth. Late in the day, the third and final major assault by the Union army pushed over a bullet-strewn stone bridge at Antietam Creek. -
Gettysburg
On the morning of July 3rd, fighting raged at Culp’s Hill with the Union regaining its lost ground. After a massive artillery bombardment, Lee attacked the Union center on Cemetery Ridge and was repulsed with heavy losses in what is known as Pickett’s Charge. Lee's second invasion of the North had failed. -
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Chickamauga
Confed. retreated to Dalton.The Battle of Chickamauga, fought September 19–20, 1863, Marked the end of a Union offensive in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia called the Chickamauga Campaign. The battle was the most significant Union defeat in the Western Theater of the American Civil War and involved the second highest number of casualties in the war following the Battle of Gettysburg. It was the first major battle in Ga. -
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Sherman's March to the Sea
He marched to the port in savanah. His forces destroyed military targets as well as industry, infrastructure, and civilian property and disrupted the South's economy and its transportation networks. -
13 Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House on January 31, 1865, and adopted on December 6, 1865. On December 18, 1865, Secretary of State William H. Seward proclaimed its adoption. It was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments adopted following the American Civil War. -
14 Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. The amendment was bitterly contested, particularly by Southern states, which were forced to ratify it in order for them to regain representation in the Congress. -
15 Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment to 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 of servitude". It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments. -
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Jim Crow laws
They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy, with, starting in 1890, a "separate but equal" status for African Americans. The separation in practice led to conditions for African Americans that tended to be inferior to those provided for white Americans, systematizing a number of economic, educational and social disadvantages. -
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FDR Elected
A Democrat, he was elected four times and served from March 1933 to his death in April 1945. He was a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war. -
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Leo Frank Case
An engineer and superintendent of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, Frank was convicted on August 25, 1913, of the murder of one of his factory workers, 13-year-old Mary Phagan. She had been strangled on April 26 and was found dead in the factory cellar the next morning. Frank was the last person known to have seen her alive, and there were allegations that he had flirted with her before. -
Plessy V. Fergusion
Plessy v. Ferguson is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal". -
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County Unit System
Though the County Unit System had informally been used since 1898, it was formally enacted by the Neill Primary Act of 1917. The system was ostensibly designed to function similarly to the Electoral College, but in practice the large ratio of unit votes for small, rural counties to unit votes for more populous urban areas provided outsized political influence to the smaller counties. -
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1906 ATL. Riot
The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 was a mass civil disturbance in Atlanta, Georgia, USA which began the evening of September 22 and lasted until September 24, 1906. An estimated 25 to 40 African-Americans were killed along with 2 confirmed European Americans. The main cause was the rising tension between whites and blacks as a result of competition for jobs, black desire for civil rights, Reconstruction, and the gubernatorial election of 1906. -
Black Tuesday
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began in late October 1929 and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout. The crash signalled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries. -
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WWI
it was called simply the World War or the Great War, and thereafter the First World War or World War I.In America, it was initially called the European War.More than 9 million combatants were killed; a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents' technological and industrial sophistication, and tactical stalemate. It was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, paving the way for major political changes, including revolutions in many of the nations involved. -
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s. It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century. -
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s. It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century. -
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New Deal
The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1936, and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The programs were in response to the Great Depression -
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Holocaust
The Nazis targeted Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists, twins, and the disabled. Some of these people tried to hide from the Nazis, like Anne Frank and her family. A few were successful; most were not. -
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WWII
It lasted from 1939 to 1945, though some related conflicts in Asia began before 1939. It involved the vast majority of the world's nations including all of the great powers eventually forming two opposing military alliances. -
Pearl Harbor Attacked
The attack on Pearl Harbor[nb 4] was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 . The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
FDR dies Warm Springs
it was about 1 p.m. that the president suddenly complained of a terrific pain in the back of my head and collapsed unconscious. -
Brown Vs. Board
The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation, insofar as it applied to public education. Handed down on May 17, 1954. -
1956 State Flag
The current flag of the U.S. state of Georgia was adopted on May 8, 2003. The flag has three red and white stripes, with the state coat of arms on a blue field in the upper left corner. In the coat of arms, the arch symbolizes the state's Constitution and the pillars represent the three branches of government: legislative, executive, and judicial.
