History of Georgia

1. History of Georgia

2. One Reason Why Georgia was Founded The colony of Georgia was truly the vision of James Edward Oglethorpe. He had planned to use the new colony to help people in debtors prison. However, by the time he received the charter for Georgia (June 9, 1732) Oglethorpe had dropped his plan to use debtors and hand-picked the 116 men and women who would travel to Georgia on The Ann.

3. James Edward Oglethorpe • General James Edward Oglethorpe is considered the founding father of Savannah, Augusta, and Georgia. • He was a British general, Member of Parliament, philanthropist, and founder of the colony of Georgia. • He brought 120 settlers to Georgia. This was the last of the 13 colonies. He also helped plan the city of Savannah.

4. Tomichichi • Tomichichi was the chief of the Yamacraw Indians. • He greeted Oglethorpe when he first landed on Yamacraw Bluff. • They became friends.

5. Georgia • King George II signed the royal charter which established the colony of Georgia in 1732.

6. King George II Georgia colony was named in honor of King George II, the king of England.

7. Ship "Anne" • "Anne" was the name of the ship thatbrought Oglethorpeand the colonists fromEngland on November 17,1732. • They landed on Yamacraw Bluff in Savannah on February 12, 1733.

8. Yamacraw Bluff • Yamacraw Bluffis located in Savannah on the Savannah River. It is where the settlers and Oglethorpe landed in 1733. Yamacraw was the name of a tribe of Indians that lived there. • These monuments mark the spot where Oglethorpe landed with the first Georgia Colonists.

9. Colony of Georgia • A colony is a place that is ruled by another country. • The settlers arrived in Georgia February 12, 1733, to start a new colony called Georgia. This new Colony was the 13th colony in the new world called America.

10. Yamacraw Indians • Yamacraw Indians lived on the land that we now call Savannah. • They are part of the Creek tribe.

11. Savannah • The name Savannahis said to have came either from the Sawana people who lived in that area • Or the name may be from a Shawnee word for the Savannah River.

12. Mary Musgrove • Mary Musgrove(Interpreter)helped Oglethorpe and Tomochichi talk to each other. • She also owned a trading post and became a very wealthy woman. Mary and John Musgrove

13. Mary Musgrove the Interpreter • In 1736, John Wesley wrote, “She understands both languages, being educated amongst the English. She can read and write, and is a well-civilized women. She is likewise to teach us the Indian tongue.” – • Tomochichi’s interpreter was Mary Musgrove.

14. A Colonial Trading Post • A colonial trading post -A trading post was a store where colonist and Native Americans traded with each other. Mary and her husband moved their trading post to Yamacraw Bluff in 1732. The post, known as the Cowpens, became a successful business.

15. Life in the Colony • Life was simple in the new colony. • People made a living in agriculture and raised cattle and horses. • There was lumbering and fur trade.

16. First Native Americans in Georgia: • The first people to live in Georgia were the prehistoric Indians called the Mound Builders. MOUND BUILDERS They built mounds to bury the dead, for temples, and others were built in animal shapes

17. Native Americans in Georgia: • Before the White Settlers Cherokee Indians live in North Georgia. • CreekIndians lived in South Georgia.

18. Sequoyah • A Georgia Indian called Sequoyah was the first to make an Indian alphabet in 1821. These words are written in Sequoyah's alphabet and are spoken in the Cherokee language.

19. The Cherokee Phoenix • The first Indian newspaper was published in Georgia in 1828. • It was called the “Cherokee Phoenix”.

20. Trail Of Tears In 1830 the Congress of the United States passed the "Indian Removal Act." This act forced the Cherokee Indians from their homelands in the east to Indian Territory what is now called Oklahoma in 1838-1839. This is known as the "Trail of Tears" or "The Trail Where They Cried".

21. Trustee’s Garden • The “Trustee’s Garden” was the first agricultural experimental farm and station in American. It was started in 1733 in Savannah. The purpose was to experiment with herbs and plants from all over the world to find out which crops would grow best in Georgia such as peaches, rice, cotton, grapes, flax, hemp, indigo, olives, and the mulberry trees.

22. The First Sunday School • The first protestant Sunday School was started by John Wesley in Savannah in 1736. This was the first “Sunday School” in America. • Christ Church was founded in 1733.

23. Bethesda Orphanage • Bethesda Orphanage is the oldest Orphanage stillin operation in America. • It was opened in 1741 by George Whitefield and James Habersham. • It is located in Savannah.

24. First African Baptist Church • In 1788, two slaves, Andrew Bryan and Abraham Marshall, worked to organize the first black Church in America named the First African Baptist Church.

25. Revolutionary War Washington’s Guns are British cannons given to Savannah by George Washington. • England ruled America. • In 1775 the people in America decided they wanted to rule themselves. • They went to war with Englandand gained their freedom in 1783. • On January 2, 1788, Georgia became the fourth state to join the United States.

26. Cotton Gin – Eli Whitney • Eli Whitneyinvented • the first cotton gin • near Savannah in 1793. The cotton gin helped to make cotton the south’s most important crop.

27. S.S. Savannah – Steamship The S.S. Savannah was the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. It took 29 days for the S.S. Savannah to travel from Savannah to Liverpool, England in 1891.

28. First Gold Rush • The first gold rush in the United States was in Dahlonega, Georgia in 1828. • Georgia gold was used to cover the dome of the Capital Building in Atlanta.

29. Coca – Cola • It is now a famous soft drink sold around the world. • Coca – Cola was first made in a drugstore in Atlanta in 1886.

30. First Girl Scouts Troop • The first Girl Scout Troop was started in Savannah in 1912. Headquarters for the first Girl Scout Troop • It was formed by Juliette Gordon Low.

31. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. • Martin Luther King was the first Georgian to win the Nobel Peace Prize. • He was a blackBaptist minister that was known for his leadership during the black freedom movement in the sixties.

32. Jimmy Carter • Jimmy Carter was the 39th President of the United States from 1977-1981. • He was born on October 1, 1924 in Plains, Georgia. • His name was James Earl Carter, Jr. • Jimmy Carter has been very active in his post-presidential life. He is a champion of human rights and works for several charitable causes such as Habitat for Humanity.

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