Georgia Studies Milestone Review People

Group of 21 men who established the colony of Georgia. Only one, James Oglethorpe, came to Ga.

Known as the "father of the two ocean navy"; brought shipyards to Savannah and Brunswick

First humans in Georgia; nomadic hunters and gathers who hunted large game. ex wooly mammoth

Colonists who were loyal to Great Britain; also known as Tories.

Mayor of Atlanta who helped bring major league sports teams to Atlanta.

Native American in southern Georgia; removed from the state through a series of treaties.

Former slave, barber, and founder of the Atlanta Mutual Life Insurance Company.

James Oglethorpe brought a group to Georgia to serve as soldiers; founded the town of Darien.

Party made up of rural farmers that supported agricultural and opposed industrialization

Native American culture in Ga; known as farmers, mound builders, trade throughout North America

Three powerful Georgia politicians who promoted the new south movement and white supremacy.

White supremacist organization created to intimidate and prevent blacks from gaining equality

Only United States President from Georgia

Use of non-violence and civil disobedience improved the rights of African Americans in the US.

Promoted economic equality before seeking social and political equality.

Four time Georgia governor that fought against Roosevelt’s New Deal policies and segregationist

Freed slaves and poor whites who worked on plantations in exchange for land, housing, food.

He is one of the youngest and the 1st Jewish Senator from the state of Georgia

He signed the Treaty of Savannah in 1733 with Tomochichi to build the town of Savannah.

Union General; led a military campaign to capture Atlanta; also led the March to the Sea.

Georgia Governor who lowered the voting age, and abolishing the poll tax

Ga colonists who complained about the ban on slavery, rum, and limits on land and voting rights

Nomadic hunters who hunted smaller game; developed atlatl, grooved axes, fish hooks and pottery

Former VP of the United States, Oldest to become President of the U.S.

Former President of Bibb County Board of Education, Current Mayor of Macon

Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton

Creek chief; was murdered by Creek warriors for ceding remaining lands in Georgia.

Chief of the Yamacraw Indians, allowed for the establishment of the colony of Ga in Savannah.

First African-American Georgia legislator during the Reconstruction Period

Protestants from Austria who were invited to settle in Ga; established the town of New Ebenezer

Important civil rights leader who served as U.S.ambassador to the UN and Mayor of Atlanta

Editor for the Atlanta Journal newspaper who promoted the concept of the “New South”

President of the United States; signed the Indian Removal Act; supported westward expansion.

Civil rights organization by college students that urged nonviolent protests to gain integration

1st black senator from Georgia and pastor of MLK Jr.'s church Ebenezar Baptist

Supreme Court ruling declared slaves were not citizens and were considered property.

Had close ties to Georgia & died at his Georgia home, “The Little White House” in Warm Springs

Slave who saved Elijah Clarke's life at the Battle of Kettle Creek, awarded freedom and land

A Louisiana man who challenged segregation laws on railroad cars. Led to legal segregation.

Native American tribe in NW Georgia; were forcefully removed during the Trail of Tears

Former Secretary of the State of Georgia, Current Governor

Segregationist Georgia Governor and U.S. Senator; son of Governor Eugene Talmadge.

Taught Martin Luther King Jr the principles of non-violence and civil disobedience from Gandhi

Political activist, social reformer, first female U.S. senator who supported women’s suffrage

Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter are known as

Convicted of murdering 13 year old Mary Phagan, was kidnapped from prison & lynched in Marietta

A result of Hernando De Soto's expedition through present day southeastern U.S.

Elected president in 1860, issued Emancipation Proclamation; assassinated after the Civil War

Former Senator for the State of California, Current VP of the U.S.

Populist Party politician from Georgia; mostwell-known for his rural free delivery bill

Atlanta’s longest serving mayor who was instrumental in bringing an airport to the city

Abraham Baldwin and William Few were

Creek Indian woman, served as the translator for Oglethorpe and Yamacraw Chief Tomochichi

Inventor of the Cherokee Syllabary written language.

Govenor to hate then hired Blacks desegregated the Georgia Highway Patrol.

First European in Ga; Spanish Conquistador wholed an expedition in search of gold.

Ga woman whose heroic actions in the revolution led to the naming of a Ga county in her honor.

Fought for immediate social and political rights for African-Americans; founder of the NAACP

First African-American mayor of a major southern city(Atlanta); expanded the Atlanta airport.