15 Steps of Georgia History

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Step 1: Early Inhabitants of Georgia

Paleo Indians

Archaic Indians

Woodland Indians

Mississippian Indians

Cherokee Indians

Creek Indians

Step 2: Colonization of Georgia

Hernando de Soto

James Oglethorpe*

Tomochichi*

Mary Musgrove*

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Significant People in GA History page.

Step 3: Revolutionary War

Battle of Kettle Creek

Step 4: Georgia in the New U.S.A.

Invention of the Cotton Gin

Invention of the Mechanical Reaper

Hardships after the Revolutionary War

Step 5: Removal of Native Americans from Georgia

Trail of Tears

Step 6: Slavery and before the Civil War

Antebellum Period

Succession from the Union

Step 7: Civil War

Civil War in Georgia

Sherman's March to Sea

Step 8: Reconstruction

Congressional Reconstruction

Step 9: The New South

Bourbon Triumvirate

Freedmen

Step 10: Progressive Era

Coca-cola

Lynching: Ku Klux Klan

Step 11: Fight for Civil Rights

Jim Crow Laws

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Step 12: Great Depression & WWII

Step 13: Civil Rights Movement

NAACP

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Rights Act

Step 14: End of 20th Century

Jimmy Carter

Andrew Young

Protests against Vietnam War

Step 15: The 21st Century

Carter Center

Atlanta: Corporate Headquarters

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