Vocabulary Terms
Money that remains after bills and expenses are paid.
What is "profit"
The first royal governor of Georgia.
Who was John Reynolds?
The two major European nations fighting in North America over a strip of land between the 13 British Colonies and New France.
Who is Great Britain and France?
The local governing board for the parishes.
What is a vestry?
The most commonly grown subsistence crop.
What is corn?
There were eight of these areas in the colony of Georgia; each had its own representatives in the legislature.
What is a "parish"?
Royal governor who was also a scientist but could not take the heat and humidity of Georgia.
Who was Henry Ellis?
The British monarch that ruled England at the end of the French and Indian War.
Who is King George III?
Governor who gave Georgia's colonists their first try at a representative government.
Who is John Reynolds?
Low lying land on Georgia's coast is best for growing this cash crop.
What is rice?
This conflict was fought over 200,000 square miles known as the Ohio River Valley.
What is the French and Indian War?
This governor finally finished the defensive palisade around Savannah.
Who was James Wright?
The native peoples that Georgia feared would ally with the French.
Who are the Choctaw, the Creek, and the Cherokee?
The two "houses" of the bicameral legislature.
What is "Governor's Council" and "Commons House"?
22,000 pounds of this plant extract were shipped to England in 1775; desired for coloring textiles.
What is indigo?
Undesirable colonists who had no education and no land; most worked as laborers on farms.
What is a "cracker"?
The colonists came to hate this governor because he physically punished those who disagreed with his ideas.
Who was John Reynolds?
The Mississippi River and the St. Marys River.
What is the new Georgia boundary after the Treaty of Paris?
The minimum amount of land each member of the bicameral legislature must own to participate.
What is 500 acres?
A direct effect of the development of large farms and plantations; initially was illegal in Georgia.
What is slavery?
The act that closed Boston's ports, forbid town meetings, and required colonists to house British soldiers.
What are the "Intolerable" Acts?
James Wright signed this treaty with the local Native Americans for an additional 3 million acres.
What is the Treaty of Augusta?
The law that required all males, ages 16-60, to enroll in the militia.
(Bonus: +100 points if you can tell me which Hamilton song mentions the French & Indian War)
What is the Militia Act?
(Bonus: What is "History Has It's Eyes on You"?)
Total number of members of Georgia's bicameral legislature.
What is "31"?
The acronym for the goods exported from Georgia.
What is W(ine), R(ice), I(ndigo), S(ilk), T(abacco)?