HIstory Of Gerogia Timeline

  • Period: Jan 1, 1000 to

    The Mississippian Period

    Mississippian Period is in the midwestern and southeastern United States, which lasted from about A.D. 800 to 1600 . They were horticulturalist people . They grew their food in small gardens . For tools they use stone axes, digging sticks, and fire .
  • Period: Jan 1, 1000 to

    The Woodland Period

    Cultures was from roughly 1000 BCE to 1000 CE in the eastern part of North America. It was introduced in the 1930s as a generic header for prehistoric sites falling between the Archaic hunter-gatherers and the agriculturalist Mississippian culture
  • Period: Jan 1, 1000 to

    The Archaic period

    They haunted with bow & arrows . They went fishing , haunting , and wildgreens . They killed animals like white tail deer . They was around for a long time .
  • Period: Jan 1, 1418 to

    European exploration

    This all started ibnthe 14th century . The15th century witnessed the rounding of feared Cape Bojador and Portuguese exploration of west of Africa .
  • Jan 1, 1492

    Pre-Columbian

    Pre-Columbian
    the Pre-Colimbian incorporates all period in the history and prehistory Americas .The term 'Pre-Columbian' literally refers only to the time preceding Christopher Columbus's .
  • Mar 1, 1540

    Hernano de Soto

    Hernano de Soto
    He went seacrhing for gold . He captured , and killed many natives Many Natives died from diseases . He died on the journey looking for gold . It was a 60 year difference . 1600 was the end of natives .
  • British colony

    British colony
    This held a conflict with Britian & Spain when the British colony was founded just north of the missionary provinces . The English destroyed the Spanish mission by 1704 .
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    John Reynolds

    Captain in the british royal navy , served as georgia first royal governor from late 1754 to early 1757 . Established a structure of royal gov't .
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    james wright

    Was the third and first royal governor ,severed from 1760 to 1782 . Wright was popular and able administor and servant of the crown
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    Henry Ellis

    Second royal governor of G.a , has been called georgia second founder under the leadership of Ellis .
  • Georgia founded by james oglethorpe

    Georgia founded by james oglethorpe
    He was a British general, Member of Parliament, philanthropist, and founder of the colony of Georgia. As a social reformer, he hoped to resettle Britain's poor, those who couldnt pay there bills were debtors' & was put in prison.
  • Issue by King George ||

    Issue by King George ||
    A charter is a legal document that grants speical right & privilges . It granted all lands between the savvanah & altannana rivers
  • Highland scots arrives

    Highland scots arrives
    Tey were big & tuff . They were brought to Geogia to protect . The trustees wanted them , They wasnt scared of nothing ,
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    American revolution

    The American Revolution was a political upheaval, 1765–1783, as the Thirteen American Colonies broke from the British Empire and formed the independent nation, the United States of America
  • Eligah clark and the battle of kettle creek .

    Eligah clark and the battle of kettle creek .
    defeated a group of 800 britins soldiers and lied on the troops at kettle creek . He was in a battle. It took place at kettle creek .
  • austin dabney

    austin dabney
    He was a free mulotto . He was english & african. First non-white to fight the revolution from G.a . He fought in the battle of ketle creek .
  • Articles of Confederation ratifed by all 13 states

    Articles of Confederation ratifed by all 13 states
    Was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution
  • University of G.a

    University of G.a
    First state supported university of U.S . Named after the center of learning . Abraham baldwin was the firdt president of the university . In athens G.a .
  • Convention constitution of 1781

    Convention constitution of 1781
    Also known as the Philadelphia Convention . It took place on may 14 1787 , it has also been called Federal Convention .
  • Invention of the cotton gin

    Invention of the cotton gin
    Mechine that could seprate cotton from the seed very quickly . It get seed out cotton more quicker than hands. It took hours to get it out by hands , the machince clean 500 pounds of cotton daily .
  • Inten cotton Gin

    Inten cotton Gin
    Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin . It was very sucessful . Slaves wasnt need that much for cotton nomore because the cotton gin got the seeds out more quicker.
  • Capital move to louisville .

    Capital move to louisville .
    Moved to louisville for more central location geographically . Named after the king Louis XV1 of france . He was in the war ally .
  • MIssiour comp

    MIssiour comp
    It rised between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions with the U.S. Congress and across the country . Missiour was a slave state .
  • Dahlonega Gold Rush

    Dahlonega Gold Rush
    Gold was descoverd in Dahlonega . It effected the cherrokes . They hand no right to have gold . Cherrokes could not speak out on a white man . Cherrokes laws was null & void
  • indian Removal Act

    indian Removal Act
    The law was passed on May 28 , 1830 . Andrew Jackson signed it . The president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi
  • Worcester v. Georgia

    Worcester v. Georgia
    It was a case . Only Non-Native Americans with special permission from the government were allowed to live on these lands. It was a very serious case .
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    Rebecca L. Felton

    She was an american white supremacist, lynching advocate, writer, lecturer, reformer, and politician which who became the first woman to serve in the U.S .
  • Trail of Tears .

    Trail of Tears .
    In 1838 Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands to the Mississippi River . The Cherokee's called this the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced many things such as hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march.
  • Fugitive slave law

    Fugitive slave law
    pair of federal laws that could for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States . COngress passed this law . It mandated to return slaves .
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    The Paleo period

    They ate large animals . Mammathy , bison , the ground sloth , and the saber tooth tiger . They ate with spearhwads . It was 12,000 years ago .
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    The Paleo period

    Paleoindians or Paleoamericans is a classification term given to the first peoples who entered . Paleo coes from a Greek adjective palaios which means old . They are the earliest known settlers of the Americas.
  • Union blockade

    Union blockade
    This was during the civil war . The Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the Confederate States of America were blocked .It prevent the entry and exit of trade goods, supplies .
  • Food shortages

    Food shortages
    The Union naval blockade shut down the export of cotton and the import of manufactured goods . Food was cut off . The governor and legislature told planters to grow less cotton and more food
  • MArch on washington

    MArch on washington
    It is also named The Great March on Washington . Martin Luther King, Jr., standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial . He spoke the "I have a dream' speech . It is the greatest speech ever
  • Andersville

    Andersville
    It was the largest prison . It was very nasty . The most baddest prison , many died from diseases . Camp Sumter military prison was in Andersville
  • march to the Sea

    march to the Sea
    It was led by General William T. Sherman . It was to frighten Georgia's civilian population into abandoning the Confederate . He led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia .
  • First African American

    First African American
    The first achievements by African Americans in various fields historically establish a foothold
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    Jim Crow laws

    Blacks & whites was seperated . they was seperated but equal . Each one had the same thing . Nobdy had more or less .
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    FDR election

    He was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 32nd President of the U.S . He was elected four consecutive terms, and still is the only president ever to serve more than eight years in office .
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    Plessy v. Ferguson .

    Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the white car . Separted but equal was made by this case . He was white & black but considered as a black .
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    1906 Atlanta Riot

    White mobs killed alot of blacks . Wounded scores of others, and inflicted considerable property damage . Newspapers reports of alleged assaults by black males on white females .
  • Leo frank case

    Leo frank case
    A murder of Mary Phagan . She was murder in his shop & he was convicted of the murder . He was hanged by the mob , he was a jewish .
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    WW1

    It was the first war ever . It was called World War 1 or Great war . More than 9 million combatants were killed during te war . It was one of the most deadlist war ever .
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    County Unit System

    A system of voting in a primary election in Georgia. Every county is allotted a number of unit votes. That county's unit votes and the one who got a majority of the state's unit votes is nominated.
  • Black Tuesday

    Black Tuesday
    This event had many names . Wall Street Crash of 1929 and Stock Market Crash of 1929 was also the names for Black Tuesday . The most devastating stock market crash .
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    The Great Depression

    One of the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn . MAny people didnt have jobs . The could barley eat . The needed jobs bad , it was a really bad time .
  • Holocaust

    Holocaust
    Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning sacrifice by fire .Six million jews was murder by nazi . The Nazi's leader was Aldof Hitler . He did not like jews . He put them in consontrations camps .
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    Roosevelt New deal

    His New Deal produced a political realignment . The New Deal response to the Great Depression .
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    Maynard jackson

    An American politician, a member of the Democratic Party . He first African American mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
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    world war 2

    It was the second war . It lasted 6 years and 1 day . It is the most widespread war in history . It was the last war so far .
  • Pearl Harbor attack

    Pearl Harbor attack
    It was a suprise attack . Nobody was ready for it , many people lost thier lifes . It led to world war 2 .
  • FDR dies at warm springs

    FDR dies at warm springs
    He had a stroke . He came here to get the pain away . He was not a faithful man . He cheated & he died with his girlfriend not his wife .
  • Civil Rights Movement

    Civil Rights Movement
    African Americans served in the military during World War II returned to a still segregated nation .Many were motivated to participate in the NAACP and others enforce their constitutional rights, especially the right to vote, and the right of their kids to an equal education.
  • brown vs board of education .

    brown vs board of education .
    Segregation of white and black children in the public schools , It was a state law .
  • Sibley commission

    Sibley commission
    Ernest Vandiver Jr was forced to decide between closing public schools . The committee was charged with gathering state residents . This laid the foundation for the end of massive resistance to desegregation in the state
  • Albany movement

    Albany movement
    It formed a desegregation coalition in Albany . THis event was led by William G. Anderson, a local black Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine.
  • Yazoo land fraud

    Yazoo land fraud
    The legisature was selling land they was bribe to sell it . He was selling land to the indians . They took over the land and start selling it .
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    Jimmy carter

    He was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party . He is the 39th president of the U.S . In 2002 he receive the Nobel Peace Prize . He is te only president to receieve a prize .
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    1996 Summer Games

    This event is known officially as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad . It took place in Atlanta,Gerorgia . It was voted in 1986 to separate the Summer and Winter Game.
  • 1956 state flag

    1956 state flag
    It was adopted on May 2003 . It had 2 red stripes & 1white one . The flag is design is based on the First National Flag of the Confederate States of America
  • President

    President
    The leader of a country , typically a republic, a democracy, or a dictatorship . He run the whole untied states .
  • students at uga

    students at uga
    Uga is a public school . It is a d1 school . Many students go here . It is home of Gerogia
  • Capitals

    Capitals
    There were five different capitals in Gerogia . Savannah was the first . After Savannah came Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, and Atlanta . The state legislature gather for meeting in other places .