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Charter of 1732
The first twenty years of Georgia history are referred to as Trustee Georgia because during that time a Board of Trustees governed the colony -
salzburgers arrive
the first twenty years of Georgia history are referred to as trustee During that time a board of trustees governed the colony A Group of German speaking protestant colonists Founded the town of Edensor in what is now Effingham county -
Highland scots arrive
a band of highlands scots recruited from the vicinity of inverness
General James Edward Oglethorpe founded the new Georgia colony -
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John Reynolds
John Reynolds was an officer of the Royal Navy He served for a period as the royal governor of the Province of Georgia from 1754-1757 -
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american revolution
the american revolution was a polinca uphears that dook place between 1765 and 1783.
During which colonisisintue thirteen a merican colonies rejected the britusn monarchy -
eli whitney and the cotton gin
In 1794, U.S.-born inventor Eli Whitney (1765-1825) patented the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. -
university of georgia founded
The University of Georgia, founded in 1785, and commonly referred to as UGA or simply Georgia, is an American public land-grant and sea grant research university. -
constitutional convention
the constitutional convention is also known as the philadelhia convention -
Georgia Founded
foundend by james eduond oglethorpe located in the southeasthern united states -
yazoo land fraud
Yazoo land fraud, in U.S. history, scheme by which Georgia legislators were bribed in 1795 to sell most of the land now making up the state of Mississippi (then a part of Georgia's western claims) to four land companies for the sum of $500,000, far below its potential market value. -
missour compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries -
dahlonega gold rush
There are many stories of the first discovery of gold in Georgia. -
worcester v georgia
was a case in which the United States Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester -
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trail of tears
as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River -
capital moved to louisville
After the British left, the capital was moved to Augusta, then Louisville while a new city was being built on the Oconee River, reflecting the western move of Georgia's populace. But by 1847 some were unhappy with Milledgeville and called for an election to move the capital to Atlanta. -
compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 -
georgia platform
The Georgia Platform was a statement executed by a Georgia Convention in Milledgeville. -
kansas nebarska act
created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, -
election of 1860
The Democrats met in Charleston, South Carolina, in April 1860 to select their candidate for President in the upcoming election. -
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union blockade of georgia
When The union Blockade happened from 1861-1865 during the American Civil War. Where The Union Blockade happened along the coast of confederate Georgia and along the coast of some other southern states. -
battle of antietam
particularly in the South, fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek. -
emancipation proclamation
as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. -
battle of gettysburg
take place in and around the tone of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War -
battle of chickamauga
The Battle of Chickamauga marked the end of a Union offensive in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia -
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sherman's atlanta campaign
The Atlanta Campaign was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864. Union Maj. Gen -
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andersonville prison camp
The Andersonville National Historic Site located near Andersonville Georgia preserves the former Camp Sumter. -
thirteenth amendment
to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude -
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sherman's march to the sea
Sherman's March to the Sea is the name commonly given to the military Savannah Campaign in the American Civil War -
freedman's bureau
The U.S. Bureau of Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands popularly known as the Freedmen's Bureau -
ku klux klan formed
The Ku Klux Klan, or simply "the Klan", is the name of three distinct past -
fourteenth amendment
to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments -
fifteenth amendment
the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and the state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." -
john and lugenia hope
Lugenia Burns was born on February 19, 1871, in St. Louis, Missouri, to Louisa M. Bertha and Ferdinand Burns, a successful carpenter. She was the youngest of seven children. -
international cotton exposition
International Cotton Exposition (I.C.E) was a world's fair held in Atlanta, Georgia, from October 5 to December 31 of 1881. -
Carl Vinson
Carl Vinson was a United States Representative from Georgia. -
Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States -
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William B. Hartsfield
William Berry Hartsfield, Sr., was an American politician who served as the 49th and 51st Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia -
Benjamin Mays
Benjamin Elijah Mays was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. -
plessy v. ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal" -
richard russell
served in public office for fifty years as a state legislator, governor of Georgia, and U.S. senator. -
henry mcneal turner
Henry McNeal Turner was a minister, politician, and the first southern bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church -
atlanta falcons
The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are a member of the South Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League. -
tom watson and the populists
The Carolina Digital Library and Archives, the Southern Historical Collection, and Documenting the American South are pleased to announce the release of the Thomas E. Watson Papers Digital Collection. -
1906 atlanta riot
The Atlanta race riot of 1906 was a mass civil disturbance in Atlanta. -
1906 atlanta 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. -
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Ivan Allen, Jr.
Ivan Allen, Jr., was an American businessman who served two terms as the 52nd Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, during the turbulent civil rights era of the 1960s -
leo frank case
The Leo Frank case is one of the most notorious and highly publicized cases in the legal annals of Georgia -
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World War I
World War I, also known as the First World War, or the Great War, was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. -
county unit system
From 1917 until 1962 the County Unit System was a voting system used by the U.S. state of Georgia to determine a victor in statewide primary elections. -
martin luther king jr.
Martin Luther King Jr was an american baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the african american civil rights movement. -
James Wright
died march 25,1980,new york city \
was an american colonial lauyer
jurist who was the last bmitish royal govrnor of the pronince of geoagia -
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Great Depression
The Great Depression (1929-39) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. -
dred scott case
Dred Scott v. Sandford was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans -
Eugene Talmadge
Eugene Talmadge was a Democratic politician who served two terms as the 67th Governor of Georgia from 1933 to 1937 -
civilian conservation corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed -
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holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide in which approximately six million Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime and its collaborators. -
Social Security
The Social Security Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt on August 14, 1935 -
Rural Electrification
Rural electrification is the process of bringing electrical power to rural and remote areas. -
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World War II
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, though related conflicts began earlier -
hamilton holmes and charlayne hunter
Hamilton E. Holmes was an American orthopedic physician. He and Charlayne Hunter-Gault were the first two African-American students admitted to the University of Georgia. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, the Hawaii Operation or Operation AI by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters -
1946 governor's race
For a brief period of time in 1947, Georgia had three governors. Eugene Talmadge won election to a fourth term as Georgia's governor in 1946, but died before his inauguration. To fill the vacancy, Eugene's son, Herman, was appointed by the state Legislature. -
W. E. B. Du Bois
William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor -
1956 state flag
The current Georgia state flag was the state's third in twenty-seven months. The new flag features the state coat of arms, surrounded by thirteen stars. -
herman talmadge
Herman Eugene Talmadge, Sr., was a Democratic American politician from the state of Georgia. He served as the 70th Governor of Georgia briefly in 1947 and again from 1948 to 1955. -
atlanta hawks
The Atlanta Hawks are a professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Hawks compete in the National Basketball Association as a member team of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division. -
Alonzo Herndon
Alonzo Franklin Herndon was a businessman and the founder and president of the Atlanta Family Life Insurance Company. -
student nonviolent coordinating committee
The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee,formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement, became one of the movement’s more radical branches. -
sibley commission
in 1960 Governor Ernest Vandiver Jr forced to decide between closing public schools or complying with a federal order to desegregate them, -
the albany movemant
The Albany Movement was a desegregation coalition formed in Albany, Georgia, on November 17, 1961, by local activists, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -
brown v. board of educaqtion
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
civil rights act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
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Andrew Young
Andrew Jackson Young, Jr. is an American politician, diplomat, activist, and pastor from Georgia. He has served as a Congressman from Georgia's 5th congressional district, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, and Mayor of Atlanta -
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington as styled in a sound recording released after the event, was one of the largest political rallies -
agricultural adjustment act
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a United States federal law of the New Deal era which reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock -
Atlanta braves
The Atlanta Braves are an American professional baseball franchise based in Atlanta since 1966, after having originated and played for many decades in Boston and then having subsequently played in Milwaukee for a little more than a decade. -
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Lester Maddox
Lester Garfield Maddox, Sr., was an American politician who was the 75th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971. -
Lester Maddox
Lester Garfield Maddox, Sr., was an American politician who was the 75th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971. -
Jimmy Carter
James Earl Jimmy Carter Jr is an american politician and author who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 he was awarded the 2002 nobel peace prize for his work with the Carter Center. -
Herry ellis
born 17 may 1982 in leicester
a stunb distinguisheo techer award -
1996 olympic games
The 1996 Summer Olympics (French: Les Jeux olympiques d'été de 1996), known officially as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially as the Centennial Olympic Games,
