Georgia History Timeline Project

  • Jan 1, 1000

    Woodland

    Woodland
    [https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAYQjB0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nativehistoryassociation.org%2Fwoodland.php&ei=7O_UVPryFoy1ggSarIBQ&bvm=bv.85464276,d.eXY&psig=AFQjCNEROzkVXxiB_SK93SyGQPmNRCCnCA&ust=1423327594710020](woodland information)Woodland InformationThey were actually the first people to use the bow amnd arrow to hunt and kill animals . This time period began in 1000 b.c and ended in 1000 a.d . They lived in places longer and started to form small tribes / villages . They started growing their own food such as sunflowers , squash , gourds , beans maize , they also hunted small game animals .
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Paleo

    Paleo
    [https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAYQjB0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.visualphotos.com%2Fimage%2F1x3745354%2Fpaleo-indian_hunters_early_hunters_from_the&ei=eu_UVKzMBMOuggTVtYSYDQ&bvm=bv.85464276,d.eXY&psig=AFQjCNFcB5QPQH7XKTeR9HARXDjmNCg3Rg&ust=1423327476986599](Paleo information)The Paleo period was 12,000 years ago . They moved from place to place following their food source . They hunted lsrge-game animals such as mammoth , ground sloth , bison , and sabor tooth tigers . They used a large spear head , clovis point for hunting . They had no form of trade or religion . The Bering Strait land bridge was how they arrived .
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Archaic

    Archaic
    [https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAYQjB0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tn4me.org%2Farticle.cfm%2Fa_id%2F287%2Fminor_id%2F87%2Fmajor_id%2F28%2Fera_id%2F1&ei=KfDUVOjnGIqZNpftgOAH&bvm=bv.85464276,d.eXY&psig=AFQjCNGYIZ1d3Xh6e3k_p-Wed563QvTSeA&ust=1423327650049173](archaic information)Archaic InformationThe archaic time was 800-1000 b.c . They moved from place to place but migrated from season to season . Simple forms of pottery and spear heads were thinner and smaller but more pointed . They also used a bow and arrow , but it came very late in the period . They ate nuts and berries , deer , turkey , bear , fish , oysters , and shell fish . Had some form of organized trade but no organized religion .
  • Jan 1, 1000

    mississippian

    mississippian
    [https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAYQjB0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tn4me.org%2Fminor_cat.cfm%2Fminor_id%2F88%2Fmajor_id%2F28%2Fera_id%2F1&ei=u-_UVKYxwcOCBJTvgsAO&bvm=bv.85464276,d.eXY&psig=AFQjCNFt8K9Oakmu1L41w-OOHRMkXo0x-Q&ust=1423327544932157](Mississippian information)They made permanet housing which means they are going to stay in that area for a while . Formed a government named chiefdom . First people to live off agriculture like corn , beans , and squash . They had extensive trade network , shells in the midwest . They built temple mounds , most religious era .
  • Nov 1, 1540

    Hernando De Soto

    Hernando De Soto
    [https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAYQjB0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.georgiaencyclopedia.org%2Farticles%2Fhistory-archaeology%2Fhernando-de-soto-georgia&ei=ke7UVOT_Mse0ggTcyoCABA&bvm=bv.85464276,d.eXY&psig=AFQjCNEsJzIMV5E7ueRXrow-c-QI9NbAQw&ust=1423327243625851](Hernando De Soto Information)De Soto came to georgia in search of gold . During his time in georgia , he fought in battles . Him and his explorers brought dieseases with them , and many native americans died from them and in battles . De Soto had better weapons than the natives , the dieseases killed half of the natives population .
  • Charter of 1732

    Charter of 1732
    [https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAYQjB0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.historywiz.com%2Fgeorgia.htm&ei=E-7UVNH1IsPEggTV84HQDw&bvm=bv.85464276,d.eXY&psig=AFQjCNHzvOvdsV8NDW3iyytoegL340_bPQ&ust=1423327119284326](charter of 1732 information)The Charter of 1732 was signed by king George second . It was a document made to lay out rules and laws of a new colony . It set up georgia as a trustee colony .
  • Georgia Founded

    Georgia Founded
    [https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAYQjB0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFort_King_George&ei=k87UVPKPB4a1ggTAsoS4Dw&bvm=bv.85464276,d.eXY&psig=AFQjCNFaAKps78NXso6UGKlTjku8pbMUzw&ust=1423319056766332](Georgia Founded)The colony of georgia was found in 1733 . James Oglethorpe was the man who found it . He wanted the deptors of Britainhad a place to start their lives over . Oglethorpe had tom get permission from king George the second to start first . Oglethorpe persuaded him by naming the colony after him .
  • Salzburgers Arrive

    Salzburgers Arrive
    [https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAYQjB0&url=http://www.pfaenders.com/html/exulanten_pictures.html&ei=Zs_UVOm2FZPfgwSRi4LADQ&bvm=bv.85464276,d.eXY&psig=AFQjCNEdVJZrBhI5mQJXPInr1EmyT-tTcQ&ust=1423319267740278](Salzburgerz arrive information' ><a href='Salsburgerz arrive)</a>The Salzburgers were exiled from their own countrybecause they were protestants . King George second invited the salzburgers to georgia to escape the catholic church . They formed a city called Ebenezer but left because the location was bad . They formed a New Ebenezer and it was successful . It was the first and oldest building in Georgia .
  • Highland Scots Arrive

    Highland Scots Arrive
    <a href='Highland Scots Arrive' information >http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/colonial-immigration</a>They arrived in georgia January 10 , 1736 from scotland . Oglethorpe recruted them for the prpose of defending the colony . According to Parker the highland scots were not afraid of the Spanish , they stated that they would beat them out of their fort . They settled on the Altamaha river and formed the city of Darien .
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    John Reynolds

    John Reynolds arrived in georgia on October 29, 1754 and left on the 16th of february in 1757. Reynolds started a concept of self-government. There were two houses named Commons House of Assembly and Governor's Council. In order to run for the Commons House, you had to own 500 acres of land, but for the Governor's Council the king had to appoint you.
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    Hnery Ellis

    [https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAYQjB0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.georgiaencyclopedia.org%2Farticles%2Fhistory-archaeology%2Froyal-georgia-1752-1776&ei=Ae_UVJ_BAYjlgwSsm4KYCg&bvm=bv.85464276,d.eXY&psig=AFQjCNEAWT3xQkpJd9hkNFdC1ZmDwOVqbQ&ust=1423327356403186](Henry Ellis)Ellis was the second royal governor of georgia . He arrived in February of 1757 and left in November of 1760 . He was a very popular governor , he brought the people together . The population gros to 10,000 with 3,600 slaves . Great economics growth were more and larger farms and variety of goods .
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    James Wright

    [https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAYQjB0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FJames_Wright_(governor)&ei=2-7UVK_HGoaqgwTYjISYCg&bvm=bv.85464276,d.eXY&psig=AFQjCNF5ga3xeqjZpmTcUl_cd2tgh_t5yw&ust=1423327312267203](James Wright)James Wright was the third and last royal governor of georgia . He expanded Ellis policies with larger farms , expanded trade , and self-government . Even though he was a very popular governor , he made some major mistakes . He tried to move the capitol from Savannah , he also enforced the Stamp Act in georgia which caused conflict . He was the governor
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    American Revolution

    The American Revolution started on April 19 , 1775 and ended on September 3 , 1783 . The conflict arose between the residents of Great Britain's 13 North american colonies an the colonial government.
  • Austin Dabney

    Austin Dabney
    [https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAYQjB0&url=http://www.glogster.com/marie433/austin-dabney/g-6l7l2be4pdq9u82v5lj8ia0&ei=R_PUVJOAJIudNtnpgogN&bvm=bv.85464276,d.eXY&psig=AFQjCNGglFiQHzuhcI9tlEuJlM71-qUKUA&ust=1423328441487744](Austin Dabney information' ><a href='Austin Dabney information)Austin Dabney was in </a>Austin Dabney was in the battle of kettle creek . Him and Elijah Clark both fought in the batlle which took place on February 14 , 1779 .
  • Elijah Clark

    Elijah Clark
    Elijah Clark was born and grew up in South Carolina. Clark was born in the year of 1742. He probably had Scottish-Irish parents. on february 14, 1779, clarke led a charge in the rebel victory at Kettle Creek, Georgia. Clarke died on december 5 ,1779 in Augusta, Georgia.
  • University of georgia founded

    University of georgia founded
    The university of georgia was incorporated January 27,1785. It was the first state that supported university in america. It was established in the city of Athens. New people moved to georgia to attend UGA college , so it was an increase of population and a smarter population.
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    Capital Moved To Louisville

    Louisville became gerogia's capital on January 26, 1786 . The reason for Louisville is because they wanted a centralized location for western expansion . Louisville was named in honor of king Louis xvl of france for help in the revolution . Legislators demanded the capital move to stay centralized based on population .
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    Constitutional Convention

    The constitutional convention started on May 25 and ended September 17 1787 . It took place in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . The reason for this convention was so that they could address the problems in govorning the united states of america . The problems were operating under the articles of confederation following from Great Britain .
  • Georgia Ratifies Constitution

    Georgia Ratifies Constitution
    Georgia elected six delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. Only four went. And only two, Abraham Baldwin and William Few, signed the final document. The convention, chaired by George Washington, had the authority to revise the Articles of Confederation. It went far beyond that. Instead, after four fractious months and grudging compromise, the 55 delegates produced an entirely new system of governing, with three independent branches of government.
  • Eli Whitney &' the cotton gin

    Eli Whitney &' the cotton gin
    Eli Whitney was born in 1765 and died in 1825 . He created the cotton gin in 1794 . It was used for removing seeds from cotton fiber . By the mid-19 century it had increased slavery and was america's leading export .
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    Yazoo Land Fraud

    Land speculators formed companies and started trying to buy some of the land in 1789 but the effort began in 1795 . The georgians were outraged when they found out about the fraud . It finally ended in 1814 when the federal gov't took control of the lands in dispute and paid off all yazoo claims .
  • missouri compromise

    missouri compromise
    This compromise was adopted on March 4 , 1820 . It kept the baklance between the free and slave states between the north and south . The north and south both favored this compromise . It drew a line along Missouri's southern boarder as slavery boundary . Missouri was the slave state and Maine was the free state .
  • worcester vs. georgia

    worcester vs. georgia
    The Worcester vs. Georgia case was held in 1832.The u.s. supreme court held this case and the cause of this case was that the chereokee Indians constituted a nation holding district sovereign powers. Although the decision became the foundation of the principle of tribal sovereignty in the twentieth century, it did not protect the Cherokees from being removed from their ancestral homeland in the Southeast.
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    Hnery McNeal Turner

    Henry was part of the 29 black group of men that were elected to serve in the general assembly . This took place on January 1 , 1868 . All 29 of them were expelled from the general assmebly . Because there was nothing in the constitution about blacks holding political office .
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    Trail of Tears

    The trail of tears was a part of the Andrew Jackson Indian removal policy. It forced the cherokee indians to give up their land east of mississippi river and move to Oklahoma. They faced hunger, diseases, and exhaustion on the forced march. More than 4,000 cherokees died out of 15,000.
  • Dahlonega Gold Rush

    Dahlonega Gold Rush
    Cherekees were kicked out of their homes because gold was found in their territory. The citizens then wanted the land to themselves and wanted the cherokees gone . The government then opened up cherokee land for settlement. The cherokees sued the state of georgia for the law.
  • georgia platform

    georgia platform
    The georgia platform outlined their support for the compromise of 1850 and the concerns of their future. First, That we hold the American Union, secondary in importance only to the rights and principles it was designed to perpetuate. That past associations, present fruition, and future prospects, will bind us to it so long as it continues to be the safeguard of those rights and principles.
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    The compromise of 1850 was passed by the congress . It offered something that would benifit both north and south . The south had a law named as the "Fugitive Slave Act" . This law stated that all runaway slaves must return back to their owners . The territories of New Mexico and Utah could now determine if they wanted to be a slave state or free state .
  • Kansas-Nebaska Act

    Kansas-Nebaska Act
    The Kansas-Nebraska act was bought about in 1854 by Stephan Douglas . It created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and which contained a clause on popular sovereighty . Northerners were angry because this law changed the Missouri Compromise , There was so much violence in Kansa between the proslavery people and the free soilers that the territory was called "Bleeding Kansas" .
  • Dred Scott case

    Dred Scott case
    The Dred Scott case took place on March 6, 1857 . Scott was a slave that was taken by his owner from the slave state of Missouri to the free state of Illinois . When they returned to Missouri , scott filed a lawsuit claiming he was free since he lived in a free state . The supreme court ruled that he could not sue because he was a slave and slaves are not citizens and that he was property and could be taken anywhere . This case further divided the North and South and pushed them closer way .
  • Alonzo Herndon

    Alonzo Herndon
    Born into slavery in Walton County on June 26, 1858, Alonzo Franklin Herndon gre up on a farm in Social Circle, forty miles east of Atlanta.An African American barber and entrepreneur, Alonzo Herndon was founder and president of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, one of the most successful black-owned insurance businesses in the nation. At the time of his death in 1927, he was also Atlanta's wealthiest black citizen, owning more property than any other African American.
  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860
    The Democrats met in Charleston, South Carolina, in April 1860 to select their candidate for President in the upcoming election. It was turmoil. Northern democrats felt that Stephen Douglas had the best chance to defeat the "black republicans." Although an ardent supporter of slavery, southern Democrats considered Douglas a traitor because of his support of popular sovereignty, permitting territories to choose not to have slavery. Southern democrats stormed out without choosing a candidate.
  • union blockade of goergia

    union blockade of goergia
    The battle between ship and shore on the coast of Confederate Georgia was a pivotal part of the Union strategy to subdue the state during the Civil War (1861-1865). U.S. president Abraham Lincoln's call at the start of the war for a naval blockade of the entire Southern coastline took time to materialize, but by early 1862 the Union navy had positioned a serviceable fleet off the coast of the South's most prominent Confederate ports. In Georgia, Union strategy centered on Savannah.
  • Battle of Antietam

    Battle of Antietam
    This battle was fought in Sharpsburg, Maryland. Even though this was a one day battle, it was the bloodiest one day of the whole war. It led both sides (Union and Confederate). Abraham was the president of the Union at this time, and decided to write the Emancipation Proclamation. It basically let the south know tht if they ended the war in 1862, he would let them keep their slaves. If they did not end the war, they couldn't keep their slaves.
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation
    This was an order by Abraham Lincoln on the first of January. The order was to free all slaves in all regions rebelling against the union. The proclamation did noy apply to slaveholding states that were still apart of the union.
  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Battle of Gettysburg
    The Battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863 On July 3, Lee ordered an attack by fewer than 15,000 troops on the enemy’s center at Cemetery Ridge. The assault, known as “Pickett’s Charge,” managed to pierce the Union lines but eventual failed.
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    Andersonville Prison Camp

    Andersonville National Historic Site began as a stockade built about 18 months before the end of the U.S. Civil War to hold Union Army prisoners captured by Confederate soldiers. Located deep behind Confederate lines, the 26.5-acre Camp Sumter was designed for a maximum of 10,000 prisoners. At its most crowded, it held more than 32,000 men, many of them wounded and starving, in horrific conditions with rampant disease, contaminated water, and only minimal shelter from the blazing sun and rain.
  • Sherman's atlanta campaign

    Sherman's atlanta campaign
    In the summer of 1864, during the Civil War. Union General William T. Sherman faced off against Confederate generals Joseph E. Johnston and John B. Hood in a series of battles in northern Georgia. Sherman’s goal was to destroy the Army of the Tennessee, capture Atlanta and cut off vital Confederate supply lines. While Sherman failed to destroy his enemy,he was able to force the surrender of Atlanta in September 1864,boosting Northern morale and greatly improving President Abraham re-election bid
  • international cotton exposition

    international cotton exposition
    The international cotton expo took place in Atlanta , 1865 . Its main purpose was to showcase the industries of the "New South" .
  • Freedman's Bureau

    Freedman's Bureau
    The freedman's Bureau was established on March of 1865 . The purpose of it was to help former slaves and poopr whites coop . Some of the conditions were that the slaves would have to find their family , search for food and shelter , and had few possesions .
  • Thirteenth Amendment

    Thirteenth Amendment
    The thirteenth amendment freed all slaves and it also outlawed slavery . It was passed on december 18 , 1865 . This amendment had to section to it. The first section stated Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. The second section stated Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
  • Ku Klux Klan

    Ku Klux Klan
    The ku klux klan also known as the "KKK" was formed by former confederate soldiers . It began to move into each state slowly . The purpose of the "KKK" was to intimidate blacks to keep them from voting . The ku klux klan supported the democrats , knowing that African Americans would vote rupublican .
  • WEB DeBois

    Scholar and activist 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 extensively and was the best known spokesperson for African-American rights during the first half of the 20th century. He co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909. Du Bois died in Ghana in 1963.
  • fourteenth amendment

    fourteenth amendment
    It made all freed slaves and black citizens.This amendment had five sections,one of those sections state All persons born or naturalized in the United States,and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life,liberty,or property etc. It was signed July 20,1868.
  • fifteenth amendment

    fifteenth amendment
    This was the last amendment to be passed . This amendment was signed and passed February 3,1870 . It gave all freed slaves and blacks the right to vote .This had 2 sections to it which were "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude" and "The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
  • carl vinson

    carl vinson
    Vinson was born in Fulton County, Georgia, attended Georgia Military College, and graduated with a law degree from Mercer University in 1902. He was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1908. After losing a third term following redistricting, he was appointed judge of the Baldwin County court, but following the sudden death of Senator Augustus Bacon
  • Eugene Talmadge

    Eugene Talmadge
    Eugene Talmadge was born on the family farm near Forsyth on September 23, 1884, to Carrie Roberts and Thomas R. Talmadge.A controversial and colorful politician, Eugene Talmadge played a leading role in the state's politics from 1926 to 1946. During his three terms as state commissioner of agriculture and three terms as governor, his personality and actions polarized voters into Talmadge and anti-Talmadge factions in the state's one-party politics of that era.
  • Plessy vs Ferguson

    Plessy vs Ferguson
    On June 7, 1892, 30-year-old Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the "White" car of the East Louisiana Railroad. Plessy could easily pass for white but under Louisiana law, he was considered black despite his light complexion and therefore required to sit in the "Colored" car.When Louisiana passed the Separate Car Act, legally segregating common carriers in 1892, a black civil rights organization decided to challenge the law in the courts. Plessy deliberately sat in the white section.
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    1906 Atlanta Riot

    The Atlanta Riot of 1906 took place in Atlanta . It started becaose of false articles about the black men hitting white women . That got the whites mad and upset , The whites and blacks were fussing and fighting for two days straight . The result were 18 blacks were killed and hundreds were injured .
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    World War 1

    World War I was struck in Sarajevo, Bosnia, where Archduke Franz Ferdinand, nephew of Emperor Franz Josef and heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was shot to death along with his wife by the Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip on June 28, As Russia supported Serbia, Austria-Hungary waited to declare war until its leaders received assurances from German leader Kaiser Wilhelm II that Germany would support their cause in the event of a Russian intervention, which would likely involve Russia 1914.
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    Leo Frank Case

    Leo Frank was jewish . He was blamed for the murder of 13 year old Mary Phagon . He was sentenced to be hung , but the dates kept changing . Then John Slaton changed it to life in prison . A group of white men were mad . Then a lynch mob took leo from the prison and hung him .
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    Lester Maddox

    Maddox was born in Atlanta on September 30, 1915.In 1933, he dropped out of high school and was working at Atlantic steel and the works progress Administration. He married Regina Cox in 1936. They were married for sixty-one years, until she died in 1997. Maddox had cancer and died at the age of 87 on June 25,2003.
  • county unit system

    county unit system
    The county unit system was established in 1917 when the Georgia legislature, overwhelmingly dominated by the Democratic Party, passed the Neill Primary Act. The system was set up to benefit the most populated areas. It really benefited the rural areas. The system was not based on popular vote. The rural, least populated, areas controlled politics,
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    Jimmy Carter

    Jimmy Carter was born in Plains , Georgia on October 1 ,1924 . His father passed away from pancreatic cancer and in the aftermath of his death . Carter then moved back with his mother , so that he could care for her and take over the family affairs .
  • Andrew Young

    Andrew Young
    Andrew Young was born on March 12 in the year of 1932 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He graduated from Howard University in Washington, D.C., in 1951 with a bachelor of science degree in biology. On April 4, 1968 young was with King when he was assassinated.
  • civilian conservation corps

    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.
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    Holocaust

    From 1941 to 1945, Jews were targeted and methodically murdered in a genocide, one of the largest in history, and part of a broader aggregate of acts of oppression and killings of various ethnic and political groups in Europe by the Nazis.
  • Rural electrification

    Rural electrification
    The Rural Electrification Act of 1935 provided federal loans for the installation of electrical distribution systems to serve rural areas of the United States.
  • social security

    On January 17, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a message to Congress asking for "social security" legislation.This was made to benefit the unemployed, dependent and crippled etc.It passed both houses and on august 15 it was signed by president roosevelt.
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    Maynard Jackson elected mayor

    Jackson was born on March 23,1938, in Dallas, Texas. He served eight years as mayor and then returned for a third term in 1990 following the mayorship of Andrew Young in 1992. Jackson underwent heart surgery and announced that he would not seek a fourth term due to health and personal concerns. Jackson passed away on June 23, 2003 of a heart attack. He died just two days before Lester Maddox.
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    World War 2

    World War 2 was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, though related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries.
  • Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter

    Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter
    Holmes and Hunter became the first two African American students admitted to the University, one of many segregated southern institutions.When they initially tried to apply in the Winter Quarter of 1959, they were not accepted because of “limited space.” Holmes attended Morehouse College on a full scholarship, but continued to re-submit applications every quarter in hopes of gaining access to the University's better science facilities.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    Just before 8 a.m. 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, and almost 200 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded.
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    Great Depression

    The great depression was caused by many things. People lended money to people and some of them could not pay it back. The stock market crashed also, alot of people were unemployed and broke. Farmers were in debt, luckily president roosevelt came up with a plan to help end the great depression.
  • Sibley Commission

    Sibley Commission
    In 1960 Governor Ernest Vandiver Jr., forced to decide between closing public schools or complying with a federal order to desegregate them, tapped state representative George Busbee to introduce legislation creating the General Assembly Committee on Schools. Commonly known as the Sibley Commission, the committee was charged with gathering state residents' sentiments regarding desegregation and reporting back to the governor.
  • Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

    Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
    The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in April 1960, by young people who had emerged as leaders of the sit-in protest movement initiated on February 1 of that year by four black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina. Although Martin Luther King, Jr. had hoped that SNCC would serve as the youth wing of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the students remained fiercely independent of King and SCLC, generating their own projects and strategies.
  • The Albany Movement

    The Albany Movement
    Formed on 17 November 1961 by representatives from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Ministerial Alliance, the Federation of Women’s Clubs, and the Negro Voters League, the Albany Movement conducted a broad campaign in Albany.
  • Battle of Chickamunga

    Battle of Chickamunga
    The union and confederate were fighting cause of the railroad center. Confederate defeated the union forces, so the union forces did not get the railroad center. But they came back with more troops, and defeated the confederate.
  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act
    The civil rights act was passed in 1964. The provisions of this civil rights act forbaded discrimination on the bases of sex as well as race in hiring, firing, promoting and sex was added on at the last moment.
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    1996 olympic games

    1996 olympic games took place in Atlanta ,Georgia . They began on July 19 and ended August 4 .
  • Sherman's March to the sea

    Sherman's March to the sea
    From November 15 until December 21, 1864, Union General William T. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of this “March to the Sea” was to frighten Georgia’s civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause. Sherman’s soldiers did not destroy any of the towns in their path, but they stole food and livestock and burned the houses and barns of people who tried to fight back.
  • Booker T. Washington

    Booker T. Washington
    Booker T. Washington was born on April 5, 1856 in Hale's Ford, Virginia. He put himself through school and became a teacher. In 1881, he founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama which grew immensely and focused on training African Americans in agricultural pursuits. A political adviser and writer, Washington clashed with intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois over the best avenues for racial uplift. Washington died on November 14, 1915 in Tuskegee, Alabama.
  • March on Washington

    The first march was proposed in 1941 by A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Blacks had benefited less than other groups from New Deal programs during the Great Depression, and continuing racial discrimination excluded them from defense jobs in the early 1940s. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt showed little inclination to take action on the problem, Randolph called for a March on Washington by fifty thousand people.