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Georgia: A History of Change and Progress

Chapter Index 

Chapter 1: Georgia's Land and Original Peoples of Georgia

• Naturalist William Bartram, pg. 8

Chapter 2: The First People of Georgia

• Excavation of the Etowah mounds in North Georgia, pg. 33

Chapter 3: European Explorations

• Spanish Exploration in Georgia, pg. 50

Chapter 4: The English Colonies

• Georgia's Colonial Settler, pg. 81

Chapter 5: Trustee Georgia

• The Salzburgers and their Settlement at Ebenezer, pg. 104

Chapter 6: Discontent in the Colonies

• Georgia's Royal Governor, pg. 121

Chapter 7: The American Revolution  

• The Council of Safety, pg. 145

Chapter 8: Building a New Nation and State

• Abraham Baldwin's Copy of the Constitution, pg. 170  
• Georgians in the War of 1812, pg. 207

Chapter 9: The Cherokee Nation and Removal     

• Cherokee Removal Letters, pg. 226

Chapter 10: The South Before the Civil War

• Georgia Plantation Life, pg. 245

Chapter 11: The Road to Disunion   

• One Georgians Decision to join the Confederate Army, pg. 274

Chapter 12: The Civil War 

• The Home Front in Georgia during the Civil War, pg. 296

Chapter 13: Reconstruction 

• President Johnson's Pardon of Confederate Soldier, pg. 13

Chapter 15: Georgia at the Turn of the Century

• Juliette Gordon Low and the Girl Scouts of the US, pg. 384

Chapter 16: World War I and the 1920s

• One Georgian's Contribution to World War I, pg. 396

Chapter 17: The Great Depression and the New Deal 

• Works Project Administration District 8 Scrapbook, pg. 428

Chapter 18: America and Georgia in World War II

• African - American Soldiers in Georiga during WWII, pg. 462
  

Chapter 19: Changes in Georgia and America

• The Korean War and Georgia, pg. 481

Chapter 20: The Civil Right's Era

• Desegregating Savannah's Businessess, pg. 513

Chapter 21: Georgia Today and Tomorrow 

• 1996 Olympic Games Events Outside Atlanta, pg. 571