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Jan 1, 1000
Woodland indians
The language that the indians speak is Algonquian and Iraquoian.the Woodland indians wore little clothes in hte summer but in the winter they whore buck skin.The Woodland indians worshiped souls and spirits. -
Jan 1, 1000
Archaic
The Archiac people lived lived in groups called "Bands" with 20 to 50 people. The archiac people hunted whit tail deer,black bear,turkey,and alot more large game animals.There is archaeogical proof that the Archiac people stored food and stayed in one location for a long period of time. -
Jan 1, 1000
Paleo
The Paleo indians werearound when the ice age was ending. The Paleoindians came to America from Asia by a land bridge. The Paleo were beleved that they followed animals such as bison,mammoths,masterdones,andcamels as they crossed the land bridge that traveled from Sibiria to Alaska -
Jan 1, 1500
Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto was the first European to explore Georgia.He was the first Eropean to crosss the Mississppi river. He was born in Europe and died in Mississippi. -
Chater of 1732
The first twenty years of Georgia being discoverd was known as the Trustee Georgia. England King George sighned the charter establishing and creating its govener on the day of April 21 1732. The reason for the charter was for the worthey poor to was to find a new life and to start a new life. -
Georgia founded
It has been five decades since the British found Georgia. James Edward Ogalthorp with twenty-one men found Georgia and named it after king Georg ll. Under the persuasion of Ogalthorp King Georg ll sighned Gergia The thirteenth coloine. -
Capital moved to loisville
In 1786 Loisville became the capital of ga. Louisville was the capital from 1786 to1806. All of the citys building was finished in 1795. -
Yazoo land froud
The Yazoo land froud was in the tine of the revelutionary war in 1775-83. The land that we sold is the land making up most os Mississippi.We only made 500,000 thousand dollers off of that land it was sold under market price becouse we needed money. -
University of Georgia founded
This is the biggest ,longest and most populated Institution in Georgia. It was the first University to be created by the Georgia's government. There are more than 9800 people that work at the university of Georgia . -
Tom Watson and The Populists
Nominated by the Populist Party as its vice presidential candidate in 1896, he achieved national recognition for his egalitarian, agrarian agenda. He is remembered for being a voice for Populism and the disenfranchised, and later in life, as a southern demagogue and bigot. Although his terms of elective office were short, for more than thirty years his support was essential for many men running for public office in Georgia. -
International Cotton Exposition (I.C.E)
The first expo was held in Oglethorpe Park by Atlanta in 1881. The city then had fewer than 40,000 resedents after the expo. The reason that the Exposition was held so that Atlanta could promote investment and to help the city to get to its goal of becoming an industial center -
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.Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. -
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William B. Hartsfield
He was a humble man that became the greatest mayor of Atlanta. -
Plessy v. Vergason
The state of Louisiana enacted a law that required separate railway cars for blacks and whites. In 1892, Homer Adolph Plessy--who was seven-eighths Caucasian--took a seat in a "whites only" car of a Louisiana train. He refused to move to the car reserved for blacks and was arrested. -
Leo Frank Case
The 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. Within two years the word of leo frank was all through the natian. -
1906 Atlanta Riot
One of the reason of the riot was because the city got to over populated from 89,000 people to 150,000 in two years. The emergence during this time of a black elite in Atlanta also contributed to racial tensions in the city. During that time the white people killed,scared, anddamaged the black people. -
WEB DuBois
He was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois was one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.Du Bois rose to national prominence as the leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African-American activists who wanted equal rights for blacks -
Eugene Talmadge
He practiced law briefly in Atlanta before moving to Ailey and then Mt. Vernon to start his own practice. In 1909 he married Mattie Thurmond Peterson, a young widow, who was the telegraph operator in Ailey. They had three children: Margaret, Vera, and Herman Eugene. The Talmadges later moved to a farm in Telfair County. -
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WW1
Was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history.[5][6] Over 9 million combatants and 7 million civilians died as a result of the war (including the victims of a number of genocides), a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents' technological and industrial sophistication, and the tactical stalemate caused by trench war -
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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. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Over the next several years, consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output and rising levels of unemployment as failing companies -
Richard Russle
Richard B. Russell Jr.
Richard B. Russell Jr. became one of the youngest members of the Georgia House of Representatives upon his election in 1920. By the time of this 1928 photograph, he was serving as Speaker of the House. Russell would later take office in 1931 as Georgia's youngest governor, and he entered national politics as a U.S. senator in 1933.
Richard B. Russell Jr.
served in public office for fifty years as a state legislator, governor of Georgia, and U.S. senator. Although Russell -
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Holocaust
The word “Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Since 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the mass murder of some 6 million European Jews (as well as members of some other persecuted groups, such as Gypsies and homosexuals) by the German Nazi regime during the Second World War. To the anti-Semitic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Jews were an inferior race, an alien threat -
Civilian Conservation Corps
Formed in March 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps, CCC, was one of the first New Deal programs. It was a public works project intended to promote environmental conservation and to build good citizens through vigorous, disciplined outdoor labor. Close to the heart of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the CCC combined his interests in conservation and universal service for youth. He believed that this civilian “tree army” would relieve the rural unemployed and keep youth “off the city street co -
Social Security
The Social Security Act of 1934 was created during Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term by the President's Committee on Economic Security, under Frances Perkins, and passed by Congress as part of the Second New Deal. The act was an attempt to limit what was seen as dangers in the modern American life, including old age, poverty, unemployment, and the burdens on widows and fatherless children. By signing this act on August 14, 1935, President Roosevelt became the first president to advocate federal -
Rural Electrification
On May 11, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued Executive Order 7037, which created the Rural Electrification Administration.[1] In 1936, the Congress endorsed Roosevelt's action by passing the Rural Electrification Act. At the time the Rural Electrification Act was passed, electricity was commonplace in cities but largely unavailable in farms, ranches, and other rural places. Representative John E. Rankin and Senator George William Norris were supporters of the Rural Electrificatio. -
Carl Venson
Carl Vinson was a United States Representative from Georgia. He was a Democrat and the first person to serve for more than 50 years in the United States House of Representatives. He was known as "The Father of the Two-Ocean Navy". -
Agricultural Adjustment Act
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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. Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus and therefore effectively raise the value of crops.The money for these subsidies was generated through an exclusive tax on companies which processed farm products. -
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World War 2
Coming just two decades after the last great global conflict, the Second World War was the most widespread and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries and resulting in more than 50 million military and civilian deaths (with some estimates as high as 85 million dead). Sparked by Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939, the war would drag on for six deadly years until the final Allied defeat of both Nazi Germany and Japan in 1945. -
Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to dec -
Alonzo Herndon
Alonzo Franklin Herndon
Alonzo Herndon with his mother, Sophenie, and his brother, Thomas, ca. 1890. About his early life Alonzo writes, "My mother was emancipated when I was seven years old and my brother Tom five years old. She was sent adrift in the world with her two children and a corded bed and [a] few quilts. . . . She hired herself out by the day and as there was money in the country, she received as pay potatoes, molasses, and peas enough to keep us from starving."
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Country Unit System
Election day in Kingsland, Camden County, in the early 1960s,before the advent of voting booths.Georgia's elections were governed by the county unit system,which gave more weight to rural votes than to urban votes,until 1962.Even though they were home to a minority of Georgians, rural counties usually decided the winners of statewide elections.
County Unit System.This act formalized what had operated as an informal system. -
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Missipian
The Missipians grew there food in small gardens with simple gargen tools such as stone axes,digging sticks,and fire. The Missipian people spent most of there lives out doors. The Missipian people lived next to rivers that flloded so that there crops that they planted will get water.