The History of Georgia by Michelle Cho

By michellecho
  • Mar 3, 1540

    Hernando De Soto explores GA

    By the end of the day on March 3, 1540, De Soto had entered inside the Georgia.
  • Jan 1, 1566

    Spanish MIssions Established on Barrier Islands

    Spain established missions (a relgigious center or church in a foregin land). Missions were established in Cumberland Island, Saint Catherine's Island (which they called Santa Catalina at the time, Sapelo, and St. Simon's Island.

  • The Establishment of the Virginia Colony

    The Colony of Virginia was briefly established in 1565, but it was re-established in 1607 continuously until the American Revolution.

  • Fort King George built

    Fort King George was built near Darien to protect the Southern colonies from being invaded by the Spanish

  • Georgia Colony founded

    The Georgia was founded with the Charter of 1732, marking the beginning of the Trustee period.

  • War of Jenkins's Ear

  • Battle of Bloody Marsh

  • Period: to

    FRench and Indian War

  • Proclamation Line of 1763 established

  • Townshend Acts established

    put a tax on paint, glass, and rubber

  • boston massacre

  • Stamp Act passed

  • Intolerable Acts passed

    -closed the Boston Harbor

  • Boston Tea PArty

  • Declaration of Independance

  • GA won Battle of Kettle Creek

  • Siege of Savannah

  • Aritcles of Confederation finished

  • Treaty of Paris signed

  • Period: to

    Shay's Rebellion

    Shay, a Revolutionary War veteran, led a rebellion with a bunch of other famers, protesting that since they fought in the war for them, they should be treated better.

  • Ratification of the US Constitution

  • invention of the cotton gin by eli whitney

  • Yazoo land fraud

  • Missouri Compromise

    the Missouri Compormise briefly settled the dispute bewteen whether new states would become slave states or free states.

  • Dahlonaga gold rush

  • indian removal act passed

  • Nullification Crisis

    South carolin didn't like the fact that they had to pay federal tariffs on cotton, so they decided they won't pay the taxes. Andrew Jackson and federal troops came down to settel it; South Carolina agreed to pay lower tariffs.

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Dred Scott Case

  • Election of 1860

  • Battle of Bull RUn

  • Period: to

    Civil War

  • Battle of Antietam

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Period: to

    Redemption Years

  • First International Cotton Exposition

  • Booker T. Washington speech at Int'l Cotton Expo