Colonial Georgia Vocabulary Words

Question 1

The event in which Georgia colonists repel Spanish attacks resulted in the Spanish no longer a threat to the GA & SC.

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Battle of Bloody Marsh

Question 2

Reasons for the founding Georgia where the colony provide a buffer zone between the Spanish in Florida and other colony.

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Defense

Question 3

An economic system in which a country attempts to export more than it imports.

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Mercantilism

Question 4

A group of German-speaking Protestants who sought religious refuge in Georgia and established the town of New Ebenezer.

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Salzburgers

Question 5

One of the reasons the settlement of Georgia in the Trustees wanted to help out people less fortunate than themselves.

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Philanthropy

Question 6

The 21 individuals named by King George II in 1732 to govern the new colony of Georgia for no personal gain.

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Board of Trustees

Question 7

A relationship in which people agree to work together for the benefit of all those people involved.

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Alliance

Question 8

A group of people who were recruited to the Georgian colony for their doctors.

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Jews

Question 9

A legal document establishing Georgia as a colony and created the rules in which it was to be governed.

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Charter of 1732

Question 10

The person who is given credit as “founder” and “first governor” of Georgia, though he was one of the 21 Trustees.

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James Oglethorpe

Question 11

Colonists who were unhappy with the rules and regulations that governed the Georgia colony.

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Malcontents

Question 12

A time period in which the Georgia colony was run directly by the British government from 1752-1776.

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Royal Colony Period

Question 13

What was Oglethorpe’s personal interpreter from 1733-1743.

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Mary Musgrove

Question 14

A person who owed more money than what they had, which landed them in prison in 18th century England.

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Debtor

Question 15

A site along the banks of the Savannah River, the first permanent settlement of the Georgia colony was established.

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Yamacraw Bluff

Question 16

Reasons for the founding of the Georgia in which the Trustees encouraged the growth of crops to bring wealth to England

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Economics

Question 17

Yamacraw Indian chief, became friend with Oglethorpe. He granted land to the English to establish the city of Savannah.

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Tomochichi

Question 18

A territory on foreign soil claimed, settled and controlled by another country.

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Colony

Question 19

A time period in which the Georgia colony was run directly by a group of men from 1732-1752.

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Trustee Period

Question 20

The first settlement site in the Georgia colony.

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Savannah

Question 21

A group of warriors recruited to act as protectors and soldiers for the Georgia colony to get land in the Georgia colony

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Highland Scots

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