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In the 1730s, England founded the last of its colonies in North America. The project was the brain child of James Oglethorpe, a former army officer. After Oglethorpe left the army, he devoted himself to helping the poor and debt-ridden people of London, whom he suggested settling in America.
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The first people arrived in Georgia at least 13,000 years ago, forming various tribes across the state. After the Spanish brought diseases, such as smallpox, that decimated much of the Indigenous population in the 1600s, Georgia's Indigenous people reorganized into the Muskogee and the Cherokee. The Muskogee people were an alliance of several tribe...
In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act. The U.S. government took Native American lands in Georgia and several other eastern states, and Indigenous people were forced to move west of the Mississippi into “Indian Territory” (modern-day Oklahoma). Some Creeks and Muskogee moved voluntarily, while others refused to leave. In 18...
Spanish conquistadors were the first Europeans to arrive in modern-day Georgia, most famously Hernando de Soto, in 1540. In the 1600s, the Spanish sent missionaries to Georgia to establish trading and settlements, and they compelled Indigenous people to adopt Christianity and Spanish culture. After the Spanish and British, settlers arrived in Georg...
At the start of the American Revolutionin 1775, the American colonists established a Provincial Congress in Georgia to counter the British Royal government. A Council of Safety managed the military and directed the colony’s entry into war in 1776, with important battles occurring in Savannah and Augusta. Many colonists in Georgia, however, were rec...
Georgia was the only colony to prohibit slavery from its inception—along with lawyers, rum and Roman Catholics. Slavery was initially seen as a threat to the military security of Georgia, as nearby Spain offered freedom to slaves who joined its army. The ban was lifted in 1751, and the colonists quickly established a plantation economy dependent on...
On January 18, 1861, fearing abolitionists would liberate their slaves and newly-elected President Abraham Lincolnwould abolish slavery, Georgia voted to succeed from the Union. Over the course of the Civil War, Georgia provided 120,000 soldiers to the Confederacy, while 3,500 Black Georgians and several hundred white citizens fought for the Union....
After the end of the Civil War, more than 460,000 enslaved people were freed in Georgia and aided by the Freedmen’s Bureau. The state was readmitted to the Union in 1868 upon ratifying the 14th Amendmentbut ousted within months after Georgia’s General Assembly expelled 28 Black Republican legislators, and more than a dozen people protesting the dec...
In the second half of the 20th century, Georgia became the center of the economic resurgence of southeastern U.S. states known as the Sunbelt. Major international corporations established their headquarters in Atlanta, including Delta airlines and United Parcel Service (UPS). Numerous prominent companies were founded in the city, including Coca Col...
In September of 1906, a massacre broke out in Atlanta after newspaper reports of Black men allegedly assaulting white women. Although the attacks were never confirmed, thousands of angry white men...Georgia was the first of 10 states to vote against ratification of the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote. Even after it became federal law on August 26, 1920, Georgia women were preven...Georgia is the country’s number-one producer of peanuts and pecans, and Vidalia onions, known as the sweetest onions in the world, can only be grown in the fields around Vidalia and Glennville.Georgia, kids.nationalgeographic.com The history of early Georgia is largely the history of the Creek Indians, georgiaencyclopedia.org Cherokee Indians, georgiaencyclopedia.org The Muscogee Creek - 1600 - 1840, nps.org Indian Removal Act: Primary Documents in American History, loc.gov Muscogee (Creek) Removal, nps.gov A Brief History of the Georgia...
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On January 2, 1755, Georgia officially ceased to be a proprietary colony and became a royal colony. From 1732 until 1758, the minor civil divisions were districts and towns. In 1758, without Indian permission, the Province of Georgia was divided into eight parishes by the Act of the Assembly of Georgia on March 15.
After years of planning and two months crossing the Atlantic, James Oglethorpe and 114 colonists climbed 40 feet up the bluff from the Savannah River on this day in 1733 and founded the colony of Georgia. George II granted the Georgia trustees a charter for the colony a year earlier.
Nov 28, 2020 · The colony of Georgia was the last of the formally founded colonies in what would become the United States, in 1732 by Englishman James Oglethorpe. But for nearly 200 years before that, Georgia was a disputed region, with Spain, France, and England jockeying for the control of land owned by several powerful Indigenous groups, including the ...
Feb 18, 2020 · Before the charter was up, the colonists had written to King George asking for their own governing system, and by 1755, they became a crown colony like the other colonies instead of a trustee colony. The Georgia Colony was the last of the 13 colonies to be established.
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James Oglethorpe founded the colony of Georgia in 1733 and built Fort Frederica, which became the center of colonial frontier defense, on St. Simons Island in 1736. Oglethorpe also recruited men from along the colonial milita to form the Rangers, a full-time military force.
