Geography
These are the 2 hemispheres that GA is located in.
What is Northern and Western?
This was the first group of Native Americans encountered by Europeans in GA.
Who were the Mississippians?
The reasons why Spain came to the new world.
What are Gold, God, and Glory?
This person was a translator for interactions between Oglethorpe and the Native Americans.
Who is Mary Musgrove?
These were the group of colonists that were unhappy with the Trustees of GA.
Who were the Malcontents?
This is the climate of GA.
What is Temperate?
This is one word that sums up how Hernando De Soto was viewed back in Spain.
What is a failure?
This is why France came to the New World.
What is the Fur Trade?
This was the document signed between Tomochichi and James Oglethorpe allowing the colonists to settle the Yamacraw Bluff.
What is the Treaty of Savannah?
What are Wine (grapes), Rice, Indigo, Silk, & Tobacco?
This is the largest region of GA. Includes the Okefenokee Swamp.
What is the Coastal Plains?
What is a conquistador?
This was the reason for the British exploration of the New World.
What are natural resources/raw materials?
This document was signed by King George II and allowed the trustees to establish the colony of GA.
What is the Charter of 1732?
This Royal Governor of GA was NOT popular with the colonists and ends up getting removed from office.
Who is John Reynolds?
This region is known as the TAG region (the region that connects with Tennessee and Alabama).
What is the Appalachian Plateau?
Describe the Spanish explorers impact on the Native Americans in GA.
What is they destroyed their culture and wiped out their population? (Disease, ruthless treatment, & missions).
Spanish Conquistador who has very bad relationship with the Mississippians.
Who is Hernando De Soto?
**Double Jeopardy** For 800 POINTS: This was the ORIGINAL name of the land that was given to Oglethorpe to begin the colony of GA.
What was Yamacraw Bluff?
These were the reason why King George II replaced the The Trustees with Royal Governors.
What are the Trustees enforced strict rules on the colonists that other colonies did not (i.e. no slaves, no rum or hard liquor, land ownership rules, and no Catholics).
This region contains GA's highest peak. (Bonus 100 points if you can tell what the name of this peak is)
What is the Blue Ridge? What is Brasstown Bald?
This was the name of the "fence" used to protect early Native American communities in GA.
What is a palisade?
This term describes the policy of exporting more resources than you import. Mother country uses colonial resources to create finished goods. They then export these goods back to the colonies for purchase.
What is Mercantilism?
These were the 3 reasons that GA was established.
What is Philanthropy (Charity), Defense, and Economics?
This Royal Governor of GA served the LONGEST term of the 3 and was the most popular with GA colonists.
Who is James Wright?