European Exploration
This Spanish explorer led the first expedition across Georgia in 1540, searching for gold and leaving a trail of disease.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
This was the primary reason for the establishment of the Georgia colony in its current location between South Carolina and Florida.
What is a buffer colony?
The title frequently given to James Oglethorpe as the primary founder and leader of the Georgia colony.
Who is the Father of Georgia?
This was the first planned city in Georgia, famously designed by Oglethorpe using a repeating grid pattern centered around open public squares.
What is Savannah?
This is a piece of information based on the truth of what actually happened.
What is a fact?
The primary religious institutions established by Spain along Georgia's barrier islands to convert Native Americans and secure Spain's land claims.
What are Spanish missions?
This country's colony in what is now the United States posed a threat to the British colonies to the North.
The specific labor system that Oglethorpe and the Trustees strictly banned in the original charter, deeply upsetting the Malcontents.
What is slavery?
This was Mary Musgrove's critical job that allowed James Oglethorpe and Chief Tomochichi to communicate and negotiate peacefully.
What is a translator?
This word describes when a piece of information is not factually based, but instead includes someone's personal judgment.
What is bias or opinion?
This was the most catastrophic, unintended consequence of early European exploration on the local Mississippian Native American culture.
What is the spread of disease or smallpox?
The dynamic British economic system where the Georgia colony was required to send raw materials back to Great Britain.
The specific type of strong beverage that Oglethorpe banned to ensure colonists remained hardworking and moral.
What is rum or hard liquor?
This specific Native American tribe was led by Tomochichi when the British colonists arrived.
Who are the Yamacraw?
This is what you call something that gives you information on a specific topic.
What is a source?
This rival European country pushed down from the north, threatening Spain's claim and eventually causing Spanish presence in Georgia to decline.
What is England or Great Britain?
This specific group of people—the "worthy poor"—were originally intended to get a fresh start in the colony.
What are debtors?
The British governing group, consisting of Oglethorpe and 20 other men, who ran the colony for its first 20 years without making a profit.
Who are the Georgia Trustees?
This is the geographic high ground overlooking the Savannah River where Tomochichi allowed Oglethorpe to settle.
What is the Yamacraw Bluff?
These are the three parts of a good ELA or Social Studies constructed response.
What are a claim, evidence, and explanation?
This is the classic three-word historical phrase that summarizes the primary motives for Spanish exploration of the New World.
What is gold, glory, and God?
This is a specific, high-demand raw item the King hoped Georgia would produce, prompting the Trustees to mandate the planting of mulberry trees.
What is silk?
This tragic event involving Oglethorpe's close friend, Robert Castell, inspired Oglethorpe to reform prisons and propose the Georgia colony.
What is dying in a debtors' prison?
This is the type of business Musgrove successfully owned and operated, which served as a crucial economic hub for settlers and Native Americans.
What is a trading post?
These are the names of two kinds of sources, of which the first is a source from that specific time period, such as a World War II soldier's journal, and the second is the name for a type of source that is written later on by an expert on that subject, like a World War II history textbook.
What are primary and secondary sources?