History of Georgia

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History of Georgia
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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.
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James Edward Oglethorpe

• General James Edward Oglethorpe is considered the
  founding father of Savannah, Augusta, and
  Georgia.
• He brought 120 settlers to Georgia. This was
  the last of the 13 colonies. He also helped
  plan the city of Savannah.

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Tomichichi

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

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Georgia

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

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King George II

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

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Ship "Anne"

• "Anne" was the name of the ship that brought
  Oglethorpe and the colonists from England on
  November 17, 1732.
• They landed on Yamacraw Bluff in Savannah on
  February 12, 1733.

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Yamacraw Bluff

• Yamacraw Bluff is 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.

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Colony of Georgia

• A colony is a place that is ruled by another
  country. James Oglethorpe brought 120 settlers to
  the Colony of Georgia.

• 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.

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Yamacraw Indians

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

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Savannah

• The name Savannah is 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.

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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
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Mary Musgrove the Interpreter

• Tomochichis interpreter was Mary Musgrove.

• 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.

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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.
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Life in the Colony

• Life was simple in the new colony.
• People farmed and raised cattle and
• horses.
• There was lumbering and fur trade.

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First Native Americans in Georgia
MOUND BUILDERS

• The first people to live in Georgia were the
  prehistoric Indians
• called the Mound Builders.

They built mounds to bury the dead, for temples,
and others were built in animal shapes
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Native Americans in Georgia

• Before the White Settlers
• Cherokee Indians
• live in North Georgia.
• Creek Indians
• lived in South
• Georgia.

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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.
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The Cherokee Phoenix

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

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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".

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Trustees Garden

• The Trustees 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.

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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.

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Bethesda Orphanage

• Bethesda Orphanage is the oldest Orphanage still
  in operation in America.

• It was opened in 1741 by George Whitefield and
  James Habersham.
• It is located in Savannah.

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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.

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Revolutionary War

• England ruled America.
• In 1775 the people in America decided they wanted
  to rule themselves.

Washingtons Guns are British cannons given to
Savannah by George Washington.

• They went to war with England and gained their
  freedom in 1783.
• On January 2, 1788, Georgia became the fourth
  state to join the United States.

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Cotton Gin Eli Whitney

• Eli Whitney invented
• the first cotton gin
• near Savannah in 1793.

The cotton gin helped to make cotton the
souths most important crop.
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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.
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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.

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Coca Cola

• Coca Cola was first made in a drugstore in
• Atlanta in 1886.

• It is now a famous
• soft drink sold
• around the world.

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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.

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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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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