Georgia History Timeline Project

  • Jan 1, 1000

    Paleo

    Paleo
    They lived about 10000 years ago. Paleo is the menaing of "very old". Stone age because most tools used during this time were made of stone. They traveled in group with 25 to 50 people. They ate bisson,ground sloths,and mastodons.
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Woodland

    Woodland
    Indians tribes lived east of the Plain indians and extended from New England and Maryland to the Great lakes area and into Maine, They lived in the forests Near lakes or streams, which is why they're called eastern Woodland indians.
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Archaic-

    Archaic-
    Many species of animals that had lived during the Ice age became extinct, including mammths,mastodons,and ancient bison. As a result , poeple living throughout North America had to adapt to new conitions.
  • Jan 1, 1500

    Hernado de Soto

    Hernado de Soto
    Hernado de Soto was a spanish explorer and conquistador who participated in the conquests of Central America and Peru and discovered the Mississippi River.He was raised at the family manor.In accordance with his wish , the youny de Soto was invited to join davillam, govenor of Darien, on his 1514 exploration to the West Indies.An excellent horseman,de Soto was appointed caption of a cavary exploration troop.
  • Mississippian

    Mississippian
    The mississippian is in the mideastern and southeastern United States, which lasted from about A.D 800 to 1600 saw development of some complex societies that ever existed in North America.
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    Henry Ellis

    Henry was an explorerauthor and a coloniar governer of U.S state of the Georgia trvovd scotia. Ellis was born Ireland.He was educated in law at the temple church in Londan.
  • Georgia founded

    Georgia founded
    In 1732, James oglethorpe was given a charter from
    King George II to create a new colony which he would name it Georgia. This was located between South Carolina and Flordia. It had main purposes ;to serve as a place where debtors in prison could go to start a new and it served as a barrier against spanish expanision from Flordia.
  • Charter of 1732

    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. England King George signed a Charter establishing the colony and creating its governing board on Arpil 21,1732.
  • The Salzburgers arrive

    The Salzburgers arrive
    The Georgia Salzburgers , a group of German speaking protestant colonists founded the town of Ebenezer in what in now Effingham country. Arriving in 1734,the group received support from king George ll of England and Georgia trustees often they were expelled from their home on catholic principality of Salzbugers. The Salzburgers survived exreme hardships in both Europe and Georgia to establish a prosberous and cultural ungie community.
  • Elijah Clarke/Kettle Cr.

    Elijah Clarke/Kettle Cr.
    Clarke's name appears on a petition in support of the king's government in 1774. Clarke received another wound at the Battle of Alligator Bridge, Florida. Elijah Clarke and thirty men passed through the Native American lands to continue the fight in the Carolinas.
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    James Wright

    James Arlington Wright was born on December 13,1927 in Martinsfenry,Ohio.He susuffered with a nervous break down then missed a year of school.He got a doctoral degrees at University of Washingtonn.James wrote books his earlier book was called The Green Wall.Winner of the yale series of younger poets award in1957.
  • Yazoo Fraud

    Yazoo Fraud
    Yazooland fraud in U.S history schreme by which Georgia legislators were bribed in1795 to sell most of the land how making up the State of Mississippi(then a part of Georgia's westerm claims) to four land companies for the sum of 500,000 far below its potential makret value.They moved to Savannah in 1777-1778
  • capital moved to louisville

    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 popolace. But by 1847 some were unhappy with Milledgeville and called for an election to the capital to Altanta.
  • John Reynolds

    John Reynolds
    Reynolds was born in Lancaster,Pennsylvania had one of nine surving children of John Reynolds and John served the American Civil War.One of the Union Army's most respected senior commaders , he played a key Role in committing the Army of the potomade to the battle of Gettysburg and was killed at the start of the battle.
  • Worcester v. Georgia

    Worcester v. Georgia
    Worcester v. Georgia 31U.S 515,was a case in which the United States Supreme court vacated the convic of Samuel Worcester and held that Georgia criminal statue that prohibited non-americans lands without a license from the state was unconstitutional.
  • Kansa Nebraska act

    Kansa Nebraska act
    The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´.
  • Booker T. Washington

    Booker T. Washington
    Booker Taliaferro Washington was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community.In 1872, Booker T. Washington left home and walked 500 miles to Hampton Normal Agricultural Institute in Virginia.
  • john watson

    john watson
    John Broadus Watson, was an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism. Watson promoted a change in psychology through his address Psychology as the Behaviorist Views it, which was given at Columbia University in 1913. Through his behaviorist approach, Watson conducted research on animal behavior, child rearing, and advertising. In addition, he conducted the controversial "Little Albert" experiment. He was also editor of Psychological Review from 1910 to 191
  • International cotton exposed

    International cotton exposed
    Was held a worlds fair in Altanta,Georgia from October 5 to December 31 of 1881.The location was along the Western & Atlantic Railroad tracks near the present-day King Plow Arts Center development in the West Midtown area. It planned to show the progress made since the city's destruction during the Battle of Atlanta and new developments in cotton production.
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    internation cotton expostion-

    The international cotton expositon was a worlds fair held in Atlanta,Georgia,from October 5 to December 31 of 1881. The location was along the western and atlantic railroad tracks near the present-day king plow Arts center development in the west mid town area.It planned to show the process made since the city's destruction during the battle of Atlanta and new develoments in cotton production.
  • 1906 atlantic riot

    1906 atlantic riot
    The Atlanta race riot of 1906 was a mass civil disturbance in Atlanta, Georgia , which began the evening of September 22 and lasted until September 24, 1906. It was characterized at the time by Le Petit Journal and other media outlets as a "racial massacre of negroes".
  • Ivan Allen

    Ivan Allen
    Ivan Allen Jr. served as mayor of Atlanta from 1962 to 1970. Allen was born in Atlanta on March 15, 1911, the only son of Ivan Allen Sr., the founder of the Ivan Allen Company, an office products company, and Irene Beaumont Allen.In 1981 Allen received the Martin Luther King Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize, presented by Coretta Scott King. He died in Sandy Springs on July 2, 2003, at the age of 92
  • leo frank case

    leo frank case
    he Leo Frank case is one of the most notorious and highly publicized cases in the legal annals of Georgia. A Jewish man in Atlanta was placed on trial and convicted of raping and murdering a thirteen-year-old girl who worked for the National Pencil Company, which he managed.
  • Atlanta Falcons

    Atlanta Falcons
    On June 30, 1965, the Atlanta Falcons were born. The name falcons was suggested by Julie Elliott in 1909 through 1990 a high school teacher from Griffen, Georgia won a contest in 1965.Then they named a football team (The Falcons). They were so good they made it to the Super Bowl.Every since then they have been playing football for the falcons.