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Archaic
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woodland
A land that has trees or woods. covers the ground or surrounds it with trees. -
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Mississipian
A relating to the state of mississipi. a period ocurring millions of years ago. -
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Paleo
Older or ancient, especially relating to geological past.very long ago, far back. -
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James wright
He was born on May 8,1716--November20,1785.His professions is a lawyer, jurists ,and a governor. His religion is catholic. He was born in London . His father was the chief magistrate for a several years. -
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Henry Ellis
Henry Elli was an explorer .His hometown was Monaghan, Ireland. In 1746 he was an agent for his company discovery. -
Hernando De Soto
A spanish explorer and conquuistador. he is a explorer who discovred the mississppian river. -
Highland Scotts Arrive
Its is known simply as Highlands. Its population is 232,000.The population has increased since 2001 since 2011 to 232,000. The area is very widley spaced. They also have lots of mountain ranges. -
Charter of 1732
The first twenty years of georgia history is a referred to a trustee of georgia. The trustees were going to run the colony. James oglethorope wanted georgia to about second chances. -
Georgia Founded
Georgia is a southern U.S state.Georgia was founded by james oglethorope. it was founded in 1732. -
Salz Burgers Arrive
A group of german speaking protest.a prince of salz burgers is forcing twenty thousand protest from their homes. the first group of salz burgers came from england to georgia in 1734. -
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Elijah Clarke Kettle CR.
Elijah was born on December 15,1742--1799. He fought in the south theater and in the Battle of Kettle Creek. After the Battles Elijah was elected Georgia legislature. -
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Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
In 1794 Eli Whitney had right granted by the goverment.It was the Cotton Gin.A machine that made the product of cotton by speeding up the process of removing seeds from the cotton. By the middle of the 19th century cotton had been americas main export. For this hard work he is credited as a pioneer. -
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American Revolution
The American Revolution is held between 1765--1783. Colonists in the thirteen American Colonies refused the British Monarchy,and overthrew the athority of Great Britian. -
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Austin Dabney
Austin Dabney was born on 1765-1830. He was a slave in wake county, North Carolina.His hometown was Mulatto. He was a slave who fought against the british revolution war. -
University of Georgia Founded
Geargia is the first state to find a state--supported university.in 1784 the general assembly set aside 40,000 acres of land for a seminary of learning.The university was actually created in 1801.John Milledge bought and gave the board of trustees the chosen a large 633 acres. -
Constitutional Convection
it is a gathering to draw up a constitution in philadelphia. 1787 representatives from each colony exept rhode island was framed. -
Georgia Ratifies Constitution
The constitution is in three branches of the goverment,legislative, executive,and judicial. The legistlative makes the laws. The executive enforces the laws.and the judicial judges the laws. -
Yazoo Land Fraud
In 1795 to sell most of land now forming the state of mississippi. The sum 500,000 to four land companies. On January 7,1795, Georgia Goverment George Mathews signed the Yazoo papers. -
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Dred Scott Case
the Supreme Court held that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and so they had no standing to sue in federal court, and that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery. -
Mississouri Compromise
The Mississouri Compromis was an effort by congress to remove the sectional and political competition triggered by the comment of missouri. Late in the 1819 for entering as a state in which slavery would be authorized. Right now United States has 22 states evenly divided between slave and free. -
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John Reynolds
John Reynolds was one of 9 children of Lydia Reynolds. He was born September 20, 1820--July 1,1863. His hometown is Pennsylvania. John Reynolds had military dreams. He had completed his dreams. -
Daholenega Gold Rush
Sie of the first major Gold Rush. The soul of georgia wine country. Benjamin Parks was walking through the woods one day. He was kicking some rocks . Then one rock caught his eye . It turned out to be gold.5 other people claim to find it but the results were the same. north georgia will never be the same when Benjamin Parks picked up a golden rock. -
Worcester V. Georgia
It was a case in which the U.S supreme court left the formal declaration of samuel worcester. and held that the georgia criminal law passed bylegislative body that has been forbidden. Non Native American land without permit from the state. -
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Henry McNeal Turner
Turner was born in 1834 in Newberry Courthouse. His parents were Sarah Greer and Hardy Turner. Turner wasn't a slave. His Grandfather was a slave. The South Carolinians decided not to sell his Grandfather into slavery and sent him to live with a family. -
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Trail of Tears
Andrew Jackson's indian removal policy, The cherokee nation was forced to give up its land east of the mississipian river and to move to an area in present day okalahoma. The cherokee people called this adventure the "Trail of Tears" because of its destructive effects. -
Compromise 1850
The compromise of 1850 was a package of five seperate bills passed by the United States congress in september 1850. Which remove a four hostile between slave and free states depending the status of the territories acquired during mexican american war. -
Georgia Platform
The Georgia Platform was a statement performed by a Georgia Convention in Milledgeville, Georgia on December 10, 1850 in response to the Compromise of 1850. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska opening new areas for settlement, and had the effect of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. -
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Booker T. Washington
He was born a slave on a Virginia farm.Washington rose was to become one of the most influened African American iof the late 19th century. In 1881 he founded the Tuskegee Institute. its a black school in Alabama that was dedicated to training teachers. -
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Booker T. Washington
Booker T. 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. -
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Tom Watson Populists
He was born on September 5, 1856 on a plantation in Columbia. He was the second of seven chidren. His mom and dad are Ann Eliza Maddox and John Smith Watson.He died years and years later on September 26, 1922 -
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Alonzo Herndon
Alonzo Herndon born into slavery in Walton County. On June 26, 1858, Alonzo Franklin Herndon grew up on a farm.He was the son of his white master. He was born on June 26, 1858 and died on July 21, 1927. -
Election of 1860
The United States presidential election of 1860 was the 19th century presidential election. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860, and served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War. -
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Ku Klux Klan formed
The first KKK grew in Southern United States. It started in the late 1860s and died out in the early 1870s. Most members made their own clothing. To be scary looking and to hide their self. They owned a standered of white costumes, and code words as the first klan. -
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Union Blockade of Georgia
The battle between ship and land on the coast of Confederate Georgia was a pivotal part of the Union strategy to subdue the state during the Civil War 1861-1865 Beyond Savannah. Union forces generally focused on securing bases of operation. -
Battle of Antietam
The South, fought on September 17, 1862 and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil. -
Emancipation Procolamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
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Battle of Gettys Burg
They fought from July 1,1863 to July 3,1863. It's considered one of the most important battle of the American civil war.on July 1,1863 the advancing confederates clashed with the unions army of Potomac commanded by General George G. Meade.on July 3.1863 Lee ordered an attack by fewer than 15,000 troops on the enemy's center. -
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Battle of Chickamauga
On September 19-20, 1863, Braxton Bragg’s Army of Tennessee defeated a Union force commanded by General William Rosecrans in the Battle of Chickamauga, during the American Civil War. After Rosecrans’ troops forced the Confederates out of Chattanooga early that month, Bragg called for more troops and and launched a counter attack on the banks of the close chickamauga stream. -
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Andersonville Prison Camp
One of the commanders is Captain Henry Wirz. There was 45,000 prisoners. There was 13,000 Casualties.Captain Wirz was hanged in Washington, DC on November 10, 1865 on the charge of war crimes. -
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Shermans Atlanta Campaign
In early May 1864 Federal forces under Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman began battling the Confederate Army of Tennessee for possession of north Georgia. At stake was Atlanta major manufacturing center and railroad hub. Sherman had 110,000 men and 254 cannon in three armies. -
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Shermans March to Sea
It began on november 15, 1864 with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city. It ended with the capture the city of Savannah on December 21. William Tecumseh Sherman forces destroyed military targets as well as industry,etc. infrastructure, -
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Freedoms Bereau
Freedmen's Bureau was finished in 1865. By Congress to help former slaves and poor whites in the South. 4 million slaves earned their freedom. -
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W.E.B Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In 1895. He became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Du Bois wrote well and was the best known speaker for African American rights during the first half of the 20th century. He established the National Association for the promotion of Colored People in 1909. Du Bois died in 1963. -
Thirteenth Amendment
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Neither slavery, except for being punished for crime the party will have been don. convicted, will exist within the United States. Or any place subject to their jurisdiction. -
Fourteenth Amendment
No State shall make or enforce any law.Which denies to any person within its jurisdiction. The equal protection of the laws. -
Fiftenth Amendment
The rights of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States.Or by any account of any race, color, or previous conditon of servitude. -
Atlanta Braves
The Atlanta Braves were born on January 20,1871.They were incoperated by Ivers Whitney Adams.They won six of the first eight pennants in history. -
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Joh and Lugenia Hope
Lugenia Burn Hope was born on February 19, 1871.She was the youngest of seven children. Her family moved to Chicago after the death of her father in the 1880s. She died on August 14, 1947. -
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International Cotton Exposition
The International Cotton Exposition was a fair. It was held in Atlanta, GA from October 5, 1881-December 31, 1881. It was located along the western & Atlantic railroad tracks. It was near the day King Plow Arts advanced west mid-town area. -
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International Cotton Exposition
The International Cotton Exposition was a fair held in Atlanta Georgia.It was on the Western and Atlantic Railroad tracks. It was near the day King Plow Arts Center development in the West area. -
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Leo Frank Case
He was born on April 17, 1884. He was a Jewish American factory superintendant. He was convicted of the murder of a 13-year-old employee Mary Phagan. later he died because of Lynching. He died in August 17, 1915. -
Eugene Talmadge
Eugene Talmadge was born on the family farm near Forsyth. On September 23, 1884, to Carrie Roberts and Thomas R. Talmadge. After attending the University of Georgia and briefly teaching Talmadge returned to Athens to earn a law degree.He erned a law degree in 1907. He practiced law a little bit.He married Mattie Thurmond Petersonin 1909. They had three children. Eugene Talmadge died on December 21, 1946. -
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William B. Hartsfield
William B. Hartsfield was a man of his words. He became one of the greatest mayors of Atlanta.He was there for 6 terms. He was the first in history to stay that long.He held office during a aweful period. He was credited with developing Atlanta into the aviation powerhouse that it is today. -
Benjamin Mays
Benjamin Elijah Mays was born on August 1, 1894 or 1895.He was a Important African American minister. Mays was educated in chicago. During his tenure in south state college he met his future wife, Sadie Gray. -
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Plessy V. Ferguson
Plessy V. Ferguson was a landmark US Supreme Court decision holding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public equipment under the beleif of "separate but equal". -
Richard Russell
He was born on November 2, 1897.He was an American politician from Georgia. He shortly served as speaker of the Georgia house. He was Governor of Georgia. He served in the United States Senate for almost 40 years. -
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1906 Atlanta Riot
The Atlanta race riot of 1906 was a mass disturbance in Atlanta, GA. It began in September 22-September 24, 1906. At the time Le Petit Journal and other people characterized it as "racial massacre of negroes". -
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Ivan Allen Jr.
Ivan Allen Jr. served as mayor of Atlanta. He served from1962 to 1970.He is credited with leading the city through an era of significant physical and economic growth.with maintaining calm during the civil rights movement. While other southern cities experienced repeating violence. Atlanta leaders led in part by Mayor Allen. They were able to buy and sell more peaceful trails to integration. -
Herman Talmadge
He was born on August 9, 1913.He got his education from University of Georgia.He served in World war ||. He died on March 21, 2002. -
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World War |
World War | was known as the First World War. Or the Great War. It was a worldwide war it lasted until November 11,1918. More than 70 million military people including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history.It ended on -
Carl Vinson
He was born on November 3, 1914. Carl Vinson was a United States Representative from Georgia. He was the first person to serve for more than 50 years in the United States. He was known as "The Father of the Two-Ocean Navy". He died on January 3, 1965. -
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Lester Maddox
In 1936 he married Virginia Cox, with whom he would remain for sixty-one years, until her death in 1997. He was born on September 30, 1915. By 1933 he had dropped out of high school and was working at Atlantic Steel.Maddox died on June 25, 2003, at the age of eighty-seven. -
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County Unit System
The County Unit System was about voting. Used by the United States of Georgia to determine a victory in statewide primary elections. It was from 1917 until 1962. In the County Unit System the 159 counties were divided into 3 catergories. -
Jimmy Carter in Georgia
Jimmy Carter, the only Georgian elected president of the United States. He was born on October 1, 1924. He agreed to direct the Democratic National Committee's nationwide midterm campaign. The position allowed him to meet state party officials. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a baptist minister.He played a key role in the American Civil Rights Movement. Martin was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He is remembered each year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a U.S. federal holiday since 1986. -
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression was an awful worldwide economic depression. It took place during the 1930s. The timing of the Great Depression differed across the world.However, in most countries it started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s. It was the longest, deepest, depression of the 20th century. In the 21st century, the Great Depression is commonly used as an example of how far the world's economy can decline. -
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Andrew Young
Young was born on March 12, 1932.Young graduated from Howard University in Washington. He left his position as pastor in 1961 to work for the SCLC. -
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Holocaust
The holocaust begun on January 30, 1933.The dictator was Adolf Hitler. He was a cruel person.He only let certain people live like if they if they had blonde hair. The holocaust ended in May 8, 1945. Not a lot of people survived it. -
Civilian Conservation Corps
It started from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed. Originally for young men ages 18–23, it was eventually expanded to young men ages 17–28.It was a major part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's. -
Agriculture Adjustment Act
The Agricultural Adjustment Act also know as the AAA was a United States federal law of the New Deal. which decreased agricultural manufactoring. By paying farmers extra money not to plant on part of their land.Also to kill off necessary livestock. -
Rural Electrification
Rural electrification is to bring electrical power to rural areas. Also to remote areas.Electricity is Not just for lighting and household purposes.Its also for processes of many farming operations. Like milking, and hoisting grain for storage. -
Social Security
The Social Security Act was about President Roosevelt's aim to create social and economic lasting benefits. At first only individuals hired in commercials. In 1935 a variety of legislation has been passed that resulted in the program having a much broader accessibility. In 1939, an alteration was passed that allowed the dependents of recipients to claim benefits. -
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World War II
World War II was the most widespread and deadliest war in history. More than 30 countries were involved.Their were more than 50 million military and civilian deaths. Adolf Hitler had an invasion of Poland in 1939.The war dragged on for 6 years. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Japanese Navy against the United States at Pearl Harbor. It happened in the United States Territory of Hawaii.It was the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
1946 Governer's Race
During Talmadge's death, his supporters proposed a plan that allowed the Georgia legislature to elect a governor in January 1947. General Assembly elected Talmadge's son Herman Talmadge as governor. The newly elected lieutenant governor claimed the office of governor, and the outgoing governor, Ellis Arnall, refused to leave office.After a ittle while, the Georgia Supreme Court settled. -
Brown V. Board of Education
On May 17, 1954 the United States Supreme Court handed down its ruling in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education. The Brown v. Board decision helped break the back of state-sponsored segregation. It provided a spark to the American civil rights movement. -
1956 State Flag
In 1955 the Atlanta attorney and state Democratic Party leader began a campaign to substitute the square Confederate battle flag. Some legislators favored the adoption of a standard state flag as an appropriate way to mark the upcoming Civil War.The entire 1956 legislative session was devoted to Governor. legislation to put the Confederate battle flag on Georgia's state flag sailed through the General Assembly. -
Sibley Commision
In 1960 Governor forced to decide between closing public schools or complying with a federal order to end racial segragation them. the committee was charged with gathering state residents' sentiments regarding and reporting back to the governor. The report issued by the Sibley Commission laid the foundation for the end. -
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Commitee
The SNCC was one of the key Orginizations in the American civil rights movement of the. SNCC members played an Neccesary role in sit-ins. In 1965 King argued that the campaign failed due to the lack of focus on a particular harm. In October 1960 SNCC held its second conference in Atlanta and chose the city as its headquarters. -
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter
On September 2, 1960, Holmes and Hunter filed a civil suit. A trial, Judge issued a ruling stating that Holmes and Hunter would have already been admitted had it not been for their race and color. They registered for classes, over 100 students stood outside the building chanting “2, 4, 6, 8, we don’t want to integrate.” A riot broke out 3 days after in front of Myers, Hunter’s dorm -
The Albany Movement
It was the first mass movement in the modern civil rights era. Martin Luther King Jr. was drawn into the movement in December 1961. In 1961 Albany witnessed the intersection of some of these local efforts with those of three young SNCC workers. -
March on Washington
On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C. It was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face. In Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech a spirited call for racial justice and equaling things out. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement.Congress expanded the act.Also passed additional legislation aimed at bringing equality to African Americans. Such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965. -
Atlanta Falcons
On June 30, 1965, the Atlanta Falcons were born.The name Falcons was suggested by Julia Elliott. He high school teacher from Griffin, Georgia who won a contest in 1965. The falcon is proud and dignified, with great courage and fight. It never drops its prey. It's deadly and has a great sporting tradition. -
Atlanta Hawks
In 1968 new owners and former Georgia governor Carl Sanders moved the Hawks to Atlanta. The team shared Alexander Memorial Hall with the Georgia Tech basketball team. a guard acquired from the Knicks in 1963. was made head coach in 1967. -
1996 Olypic Games
The 1996 Olympics cost nearly $1.7 billion. Eric Rudolph, also later bombed a gay night club in 1997 and an abortion clinic in 1998. He was sentenced to multiple terms of life in prison in 2005.For the first time, all national Olympic committees invited to compete sent athletes. -
Capital moved to Louisville
Geargias third capital from 1796 to 1807. This town grew a large scale immigration to georgia upcountry after the revolution (1775-1783). By the mid 1780's the upcountry outnumbered those in the coastal counties. -
Maynard Jackson Elected Mayor
He ws elected mayor of Atlanta in 1973. Maynard Jackson was the first African American to serve as mayor of a major southern city. Jackson served eight years and then returned for a third term in 1990. Before and during his third term, he worked closely with Young, Atlanta Olympics organizing committee.
