Georgia History Identifications

You should use the following sources in studying Georgia history:

Kenneth Coleman (ed), A History of Georgia 2nd Edition or later.
James C. Cobb, Georgia Odyssey 2nd Edition or later.
The New Georgia Encyclopedia website

Georgia Geography

Fall Line
12 Parishes
Original 8 Counties
161 Counties
16 Constitutional Counties
Peach County
"Bigger and Better Counties" Movement
Milton County
Campbell County
159 Counties
Land Bounties
Georgia Land Lottery
State Capital
Savannah
Louisville
Augusta
Masters Golf Tournament
Milledgeville
Atlanta
Macon
Columbus
Wiregrass
Piedmont
Appalachian Mountains

Colonial Georgia

Hernando de Soto
Lucas Vásquez de Ayllón
Guale
Bloody Marsh
Robert Montgomery
Margravate of Azilia
James Oglethorpe
Tomochichi
Savannah
Sir John Percival
Darien
Scottish Highlanders
Georgia Moravians
Salzburgers
Ebenezer
Georgia Trustees
Silk
Indigo
James Wright
Muskogee Indians
Lachlan McGillivray
Deerskin Trade
Georgia Malcontents

Revolutionary Georgia

Common's House Meeting 1765
Tondee's Tavern Meeting 1774
Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
George Walton
Lachlan McIntosh
Unicameral Legislature
Georgia Revolutionary Council of Safety
Noble W. Jones
Thomas Brown
Battle of Kettle Creek
Elijah Clarke
Battle of Briar Creek
Seige of Savannah

 

Early Republic Georgia

William Few Jr.
Abraham Baldwin
Oconee War
Transoconee Republic
University of Georgia charter
Chisholm v Georgia
Yazoo Land Fraud
Fletcher v Peck
Worcester v Georgia
Gray v Sanders
New Echota
Cohutta
Cherokee Nation
Patriot War
First Seminole War
Negro Fort
William McIntosh
Red Stick Creek Indians
Lower Creek
Second Seminole War
Treaty of Indian Springs
Creek Nation
Treaty of Hopewell
Third Seminole War
Treaty of New Echota

Antebellum Georgia

Chief James Vann
Hightower Trail
Federal Road
Sequoyah
George Tassles
Cherokee Nation v Georgia
Chief Vann
John Ross
Elias Boudinot
Cherokee Phoenix
John Ridge
Major Ridge
Georgia Gold Rush
Dahlonega
Trail of Tears
Winfield Scott
Western & Atlantic Railroad
Georgia Railroad & Banking Company
Central Railway of Georgia
Steamship Savannah 1819
George Troup
Wilson Lumpkin
William H. Crawford
John Forsyth
John M. Berrien
Jesse Mercer
Hope Hull
Augustin S. Clayton
Charles Jones Jenkins
Howell Cobb
Alexander H. Stephens
Robert Toombs
Georgia Platform 1850
Dr. Crawford Long
anesthesia
State Lunatic Asylum
Central State Hospital
Augustus B. Longstreet
Georgia Scenes
Ellen and William Croft

Civil War & Reconstruction Georgia

Joseph Brown
Georgia Secession convention
Georgia Unionists
Battle of Chickamauga
Kennesaw Mountain
Atlanta Campaign
March to the Sea
Fort Pulaski
CSS Jackson
Andrews Raid
"Texas" & "General"
Andersonville Prison Camp
21st U.S. Colored Infantry
44th U.S. Colored Infantry
Food & Thread Riots
Cyrena Stone
Deportation of Roswell Operatives
Special Field Order 15
Third Military District
General John Pope
Reconstruction Constitution
General George Meade
American Missionary Association
Jubilee
John Emory Bryant
Rufus Bulloch
Tunis Campbell
Jefferson Franklin Long
the Union League
Conservative Party
Camilla Massacre
Bourbon Democrats
Independent Democrat
Bourbon Triumvirate
John B. Gordon
Alfred H. Colquitt
Convict Lease System

New South Georgia

Henry Grady
Atlanta Constitution
Textile Industry
New South Crusade
Joel Chandler Harris
Uncle Remus
John S. Pemberton
Coca Cola
Rich's Department Store
1893 Piedmont Exposition
Georgia Farmers' Alliance
Georgia Colored Alliance
Thomas Watson
The Wool-Hat Boys
Georgia Public Service Commission
William Northern
Hoke Smith
Woodrow Wilson
Clarke Howell
Atlanta Race Riot
W.E.B. DuBois
Walter White
Alonzo Herndon
Leo Frank
Mary Phagan
William Joseph Simmons
Stone Mountain 1915
Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918
Boll Weevil

Depression/WW2 Georgia

Thomas Hardwick
Walter F. George
Richard Russell
General Textile Strike of 1934
Flying Squadrons
Textile Workers Union
Fort McPherson
Gene Talmadge
Walter Cocking
Talmadge-Board of Regents Controversy
Ellis Arnall
Ed Rivers
Rural Electrification Administration
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Tennessee Valley Authority
Works Progress Administration
Bell Bomber Plant
Herman Talmadge
Three Governors Controversy
Margaret Mitchell
Gone with the Wind
Robert E. Burns
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
Arthur Raper
Tenants of the Almighty
Erskine Caldwell
Tobacco Road
Techwood Homes
Warm Springs
Little White House

Sun Belt Georgia

Chandler Field
Delta Airlines
Lockheed
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport
Charles Herty
Turpentine
Pulp Paper Industry
Jesse Jewell
Gainesville
Poultry Processing Industry
Samuel Tate
Georgia Marble
Kaolin Mining
Granite Quarry
Tufted Carpet Industry
Dalton
Tufted Bedspreads
Shaw Industries
Callaway Gardens
Cable News Network
Ted Turner
Atlanta Crackers
Atlanta Braves
Atlanta Falcons
Atlanta Fulton County Stadium
Atlanta Hawks

Civil Rights Era Georgia

Sam Hose Lynching 1899
Watkinsville Jail Lynching 1905
W. E. B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Cotton States Exposition
Atlanta Compromise
disenfranchisement
Grand Wizard Samuel Green
Eli Cooper Lynching 1919
Murder of Lemuel Penn
Moore's Ford Lynching 1946
John Wesley Dobbs
Prince Hall Mason Voter Registration Drives
Confederate battle flag
Temple Bombing
“Forward Atlanta”
Koinonia Farm Bombing
Sibley Commission
Desegragation of UGA
Charlayne Hunter
Hamilton Holmes
County Unit System
Marvin Griffin
Ernest Vandiver
Carl Sanders
Lester Maddox
Jimmy Carter
Martin Luther King, Jr.
John Lewis
Julian Bond
Hosea Williams
"Brotherhood March" in Forsyth County
William B. Hartsfield
"City too Busy to Hate"
Ivan Allen, Jr.
Sam Massell
Maynard Jackson
Andrew Young

Recent Georgia

MARTA
Black Majority Cities
Urban Renewal Projects
Tom Murphy
George Busbee
Joe Frank Harris
Buford Highway Immigrant Corridor
Delta Chinese
"Chambodia"
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Rodney King Riot
Zell Miller
Centennial Olympics
Eric Robert Rudolph
Richard Jewell
Hope Scholarships
Roy Barnes
State Flag Controversy
Illegal Aliens
Sonny Purdue
Shirley Franklin
Georgia Drought
Lake Lanier

Georgia Women

Coretta Scott King
Lillian Carter
Roslyn Carter
Rebecca Latimer Felton
Mary Phagan
Juliette Gordon Lowe
Corra Harris
Ellen Axson Wilson
Nancy Hart
Martha Lumpkin
Julia Flisch
Mary Musgrove
Margaret Mitchell
Gone with the Wind
Flannery O’Connor
A Good Man is Hard to Find
Fanny Kemble
Helen Douglas Mankin
Lillian Eugenia Smith
Amanda America Dickson
Carson McCullers
Helen Dortsch Longstreet
Martha McChesney Berry