Human history in Georgia dates back to the _______ era which took place ____ years ago. Paleoindian, 13,000 The _____ Period took place from AD 800-1600. Complex native cultures organized as ____ emerged. Mississippian, chiefdoms With the arrival of European explorers and settlers, ______ cultures began to ______. Mississippian, decline The _____ and _____ Indian tribes played significant roles in the colonial history of Georgia. Creek, cherokee The earliest Europeans in Georgia were the ______. Spanish Established in _____, with settlement in Savannah in _____, Georgia was the ______ of the thirteen colonies to be founded. 1732, 1733, last Georgia was the only colony founded and ruled by a _____ _____ ____ , which was based in London, England, with no _______ within the colony itself for the first two decades of its existence Board of trustees, governor Georgia was the only one of the colonies in which ____ was banned at its beginning, along with _____, _____, and _____. Slavery, rum, lawyers, catholics Slavery was legalized in Georgia in ____. 1751 The colony was governed by ____ _____ instead of the Board of Trustees from ______-______, ending with the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. royal governors, 1752-1776 _______ _____ founded Georgia, and envisioned the colony as a refuge for the _______ who crowded London prisons; however, no such prisoners were among the initial settlers. James Oglethorpe, debtors The British military wanted Georgia to be a buffer zone to protect ____ ___ and its other southern colonies from the _____ in Florida. South Carolina, Spanish The Battle of Bloody Marsh on ____ ____ ____ was a conflict between the British troops (that were commanded and financed by Oglethorpe) and the Spanish, which ended in a _____ victory. St. Simons Island, British During the Revolutionary war Georgia resisted British trade regulation, but they tended to _____ with British interests because royal rule had brought prosperity for many colonists and because they desired the presence of British troops to stem the threat of ______ attacks. sympathize, Indian At the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, three Georgians— _____ ____, _____ _____, and _____ _____ signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton In _____ two Georgians, ____ ____ and ____ ____ ____, signed the new U.S. Constitution at the Constitutional Convention. 1787, Abraham Baldwin, William Few Jr., The Siege of Savannah in ____ was the most serious military confrontation between ___ and ___ troops. 1779, British, American In 1779 the capital of Georgia was moved from ____ to ____. Savannah, Augusta _____ ___ was a female patriot and spy credited with killing several Tory soldiers at her home. Nancy Hart After the Trustees lifted the ban on slavery, Georgians moved quickly to establish a coastal plantation economy based on _____ and ___ ____ _____. Rice, Sea Island Cotton In _____, Eli Whitney invented the ____ ____. 1793, cotton gin The invention of the cotton gin led to the development of the ____ _____ region, a wide geographical strip with a pronounced concentration of _____ and _____ cultivation. Black Belt, slaves, cotton The ___ ___ ___ dominated state politics for much of the 1790's. Yazoo Land Fraud The ____ ___ in the North Georgia Mountains spanned the 1830's. gold rush In 1785, the state chartered the very first university in the nation to be established by a state government- the ____ ____ ______. University of Georgia Wesleyan College was established in _____ as the first degree-granting _____ college in the world. 1836, women's The forced exile of the ____ from Georgia from 1838-1839 was known as the ___ ___ ___. Cherokees, Trail of Tears In 1832, Georgia became the only southern state challenged over Indian sovereignty in a U.S. Supreme Court case, ______ __ _____