The Founding of Colonial Georgia
This is one of the reasons that Georgia was established, and it was to make Britain money.
What is economics? (mercantilism)
This is the only one of the 21 Trustees who came to Georgia.
Who is James Oglethorpe?
This group came from Germany, was comprised of Protestant Christians, and was trying to escape religious persecution.
Who are the Salzburgers?
This is the acronym for the 5 crops grown in Colonial Georgia.
What are the W.R.I.S.T. crops?
What is defense?
This is the person who gave the land that the city of Savannah would be built upon.
Who is Tomochichi?
This group came from Portugal, was originally banned from the Georgia colony, and was trying to escape religious persecution.
Who are the Jews?
This is the year British control of the colony of Georgia ended.
What is 1776?
This is what the first three letters of the acronym stand for.
What is Wine, Rice, and Indigo?
This is one of the reasons Georgia was established, and it was to give the deserving poor another chance at a new life.
What is philanthropy?
This is the person who translated for two important people in Colonial Georgia.
Who is Mary Musgrove?
This group came from Scotland, wanted to own land in the new colony, and was comprised of great soldiers.
Who are the Highland Scots?
This was the first government in Colonial Georgia.
What is the Trustee Period?
This is what the last two letters of the acronym stand for.
What is Silk and Tobacco?
This document provided the legal basis for the establishment of the colony of Georgia.
What is the Charter of 1732?
This is the tribe that used to live where Savannah would be built.
What is the Yamacraw Tribe?
This group was unhappy with the laws of the colony and complained, through written pamphlets, about the bans on rum and slavery.
Who are the Malcontents?
This was the second government in Colonial Georgia and began in 1751/1752.
What is the Royal Period?
This crop was the most profitable in Colonial Georgia.
What is Rice?
This royal person is the one who signed off on the establishment of the colony of Georgia.
Who is King George II?
This is the country that established the colony of Savannah.
What is Britain, England, Great Britain, or the British Empire?
What is religious persecution?
Name two major changes between the two governments of Colonial Georgia.
What is the end of the bans on rum or slavery, the change from Trustee control to Royal Governor control, and the allowing of both men and women to buy and own land?
This is the industry all of these products were a part of.
What is the Agriculture Industry?