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Georgia. Who Am I ?. I explored the east and west coast of Florida and was given credit for discovering the Gulf Stream . Juan Ponce de Leon. Who Am I ???. I was a Spanish conquistador and the first to explore the southeast region of the United States. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Who Am I ?
I explored the east and west coast of Florida and was given credit for discovering the Gulf Stream.
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Juan Ponce de Leon
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Who Am I ??? I was a Spanish
conquistador and the first to explore the southeast region of the United States.
I brought diseases to the Native Americans.
I also used the Native Americans as slaves and took some back to Spain.
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Hernando de Soto
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Who Am I ???
I am credited with being the oldest Spanish settlement in the United States. This settlement is located in Florida and is called St. Augustine.
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Pedro Menendez de Aviles
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Who Am I ??? I was sent by the
King of France to find a suitable place to establish a French colony.
I am famous for establishing a settlement for French Huguenots in the New World.
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Jean Ribault
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Who Am I ???
I am responsible for creating a colony for debtors.
I established the colony of Georgia as a buffer state between the Carolinas and Spanish Florida.
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James Oglethorpe
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Who Am I ??? I became the first royal
governor of Georgia from 1754-1757.
I established a governor, a council, and a legislature (that consisted of the Upper House of Assembly and the Commons House of Assembly.
I was not a popular governor. I was removed and sent back
to England. Lieutenant Henry Ellis
replaced me as governor.
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John Reynolds
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Who Am I ???
I was the royal governor in 1771 and tried to stop attempts to weaken ties with Great Britain.
I believed that English laws should be obeyed.
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Who Am I ???
We were the three delegates from Georgia that signed the Declaration of Independence.
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Button Gwinnett, George Walton and Lyman Hall
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I was the Commander of the Continental Army.
I knew the Hudson River was the “Key to the Continent”
I knew Great Britain wanted control of the Hudson.
If Britain controlled the Hudson they would cut off our supplies.
I ordered a “Great Chain” to stretch across the river from West Point to Constitution Island.
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George Washington
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Who Am I ??? I am famous for
writing the Declaration of Independence.
In 1803 as president of the United States I purchased the Louisiana Territory for $15,000,000.
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Thomas Jefferson
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Who Am I ???
I saw that the “Whiteman” had advantages by using their “talking leaves”.
I developed the Cherokee alphabet that used 86 symbols to represent our Cherokee syllables.
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Austin Dabney
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Who AM I
I was a slave who served under Elijah Clarke during the Battle of Kettle Creek.
I was the only African American soldier to fight in the battle.
After the American Revolution, in recognition of my bravery, the state of Georgia gave me my freedom and awarded me 500 acres of land in 1786.
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Sequoyah
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Who Am I ??? During the 1880’s,
we rose to the top of the Cherokee Nation.
One of us was a successful planter and businessman.
The other became chief of the Cherokee from 1827-1866
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John Ross and Major John Ridge
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Who Am I ??? Although I aided
the whites in the War of 1812, I am infamous for selling the Creek land to the whites for $400,000.
As a result, the Creeks set fire to my plantation and murdered me.
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William McIntosh
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Who Am I ??? I did not agree with the
Treaty of Augusta (it gave away 1,000,000 acres of Creek land to the whites).
I led the Upper Creeks in a war against the settlers in the backcountry (Augusta).
I was not at war with “ the whole American States, only the Georgians that had taken our hunting grounds”.
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Alexander McGillivray
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Who Am I ??? I was chief of the
Yamacraws (part of Creek Confederation) when the first settlers arrived at Yamacraw Bluff.
I aided the Whiteman called Oglethorpe in the Treaty of Savannah.
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Tomochichi
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Who Am I ??? I ran a trading post
near Yamacraw Bluff. My wife was the
daughter of a white South Carolina trader and a Creek chief.
Both my wife and I aided Oglethorpe as translators at the Treaty of Savannah.
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John and Mary Musgrove
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Who Are We ???
We were the delegates from Georgia that ratified the Constitution.
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Abraham Baldwin and William Few
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Who Am I ??? For a while I lived in
Minnesota as a free citizen.
Later I was forced to return to Missouri where they did not recognize my free status.
I sued the state of Missouri and lost.
I appealed to the Supreme court. They ruled that since slaves were not considered citizens I could not sue in United Stated courts.
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Dred Scott
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Who Am I ??? I was a general for the
north during the Civil War.
I was responsible for the taking of Atlanta.
Following the Battle of Atlanta I led the “March to Sea” where my army took Savannah and then turned northward to take south Carolina and on to North Carolina.
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Sherman
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Who Am I ??? I was a top student
at West Point. I really did not want
to fight the Union. However, my loyalty belonged to Virginia.
I was put in command of the Confederate army by President Davis during the Civil War.
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General Lee
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Who Am I ???
I was a general for the Union army during the Civil War.
I won the first major victories of the war.
Later I was elected president of the United States.
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Ulysses Grant
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Who Am I ???
I was a general for the Confederate army during the Civil War.
My men referred to me as a stonewall.
I was fatally wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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Stonewall Jackson
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Who Am I ???
I was a spokesperson for the south.
Although I wasn’t the first choice, I became president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
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Jefferson Davis
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Who Am I ???
I was president of the United States during the Civil War.
I am remembered for the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address.
I was assassinated at Ford's Theatre.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Who Am I ??? I owned a restaurant
in Atlanta called the Pickrick Cafeteria.
When desegregation came to Georgia I still refused to allow blacks in my restaurant.
I was elected governor of Georgia 1967-1971. I became Lieutenant Governor of Georgia in 1971-1975.
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Lester Maddox
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Who Am I ??? I was elected
governor of Georgia on 1941.
I opposed the New Deal
I was responsible for the Board of Regents controversy and the Southern Manifest.
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Eugene Talmadge
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Who Am I ???
I was appointed Attorney General.
In 1942, I was elected governor of Georgia.
I established the Department of Corrections.
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Ellis Arnall
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Who Am I ???
I was elected mayor of Atlanta from 1937-1966.
I helped to integrate public schools in Georgia.
I established the Atlanta Airport
I established Atlanta Zoo.
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William Hartsfield
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Who Am I ??? In 1962, I was elected
Senator of Georgia. In 1970, I was elected
governor of Georgia. In 1976, I was elected
president of the United States.
I was responsible for The Camp David Accords peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.
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Jimmy Carter
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Who Am I ???
I was president of Morehouse College in Atlanta.
I was a professor and mentor to Martin Luther King
I was a leader in the NAACP
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Benjamin Mays
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Who Am I ??? I worked closely with
Martin Luther King Jr. In 1972, I became the
first African American Congressman.
In 1977, President Carter appointed me ambassador to the United Nations.
I was appointed major of Atlanta from 1981-1989
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Andrew Young
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Who Am I ???
I became the first African mayor of Atlanta in 1973.
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Maynard Jackson
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Who Am I ??? I served in the House
of Representatives for 50years.
I supported the expansions of the military.
I supported the creation of a two ocean navy during Roosevelt’s Lend-Lease.
I helped to expand the ship building industries of Savannah and Brunswick.
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Carl Vinson
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Who Am I ??? In 1920, at the age of
23, I was elected State Representative.
I served in the United States Senate from 1933-1971 .
In 1930 I was elected governor of the state of Georgia. I served one term as governor.
I opposed involvement in the Vietnam War.
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Richard Russell Jr.
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Who Am I ??? I was a lawyer. I served in both the
House of Representatives and the Senate.
I supported secession.
I helped to write the Confederate constitution.
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Robert Toombs
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Who Am I ??? I argued with
Benjamin Hill and Herschel Johnson for Georgia to compromise with the north and not secede.
However, I also understood Georgia’s right to secede.
I became known as a “cooperationist”.
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Alexander Stephens
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Who Am I ??? I was an African
American barber and entrepreneur (business man)
I founded and became president of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company.
I became one of the richest men in Atlanta.
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Alonzo Herndon
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Who Am I ??? I am 1/8th African –
American and 7/8th White.
In 1892 I sued the state of Louisiana because I was forced to leave the white section of a railroad car. I lost the case
Later I appealed to the Supreme Court. I lost again. The Supreme Court ruled that law separating the two races was merely a matter of policy.
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Plessy
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Who Am I ??? I was born in Albany,
Georgia. Hollywood just
recently made a movie about my life.
One of my most famous songs “Georgia on My Mind” was made the state song of Georgia on March 7, 1979
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Ray Charles
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Who Am I ??? I was a teacher. In 1895, I made a
speech in which I said that I thought African Americans should focus on learning.
I believed that African Americans needed to earn respect and demand equality.
This speech later became known as the “Atlanta Compromise”.
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Booker T. Washington
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Who Am I ???
I was born in Harlem, Georgia.
I became part of a famous comedy team during the 1920’s, 1930’s and the 1940’s.
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Oliver Hardy of Laurel and Hardy
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Who Am I ???
I was editor of the Atlanta Constitution in 1880.
I supported the New South movement along with John Gordon, Joseph Brown and Alfred Colquitt.
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Henry Grady
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Who Am I ???
I was murdered at the age of 13.
My body was found in the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta.
The factory’s manager was arrested and found guilty of my murder.
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Mary Phagan
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Who Am I ??? I am Jewish. In 1913 I was the manager of
the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta.
I was accused of the murder of Mary Phagan.
Before my sentence could be carried out I was hung by a lunch mob.
In 1982 Alonzo Mann came forward to say that he had seen Jim Conley with Mary Phagan’s body.
In 1986 the Georgia Board of Pardon’s pardons me posthumously for the murder.
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Leo Frank
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Who Am I
In 1895, I was a sociology professor.
I disagreed with Booker Washington’s views.
I believed that believed that African Americans deserved equal respect politically, socially, and economically.
I believe that African Americans should receive the same information as the whites.
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W.E.B. Dubois