Colonial Georgia

SS8H2 People

100

I was a member of the British Parliament, and petitioned the King for permission to establish the Georgia colony.

Who is James Oglethorpe?

200

I issued the Charter of 1732 to establish the Georgia colony.

Who is King George, II?

300

I was the Chief of the Yamacraw Native American tribe when Oglethorpe and the Trustees arrived in Georgia in 1733.

Who is Tomochichi?

400

I was the product of an English parent and a Creek parent, and served as an interpreter for Georgia colonists and Chief Tomochichi.

Who is Mary Musgrove?

500

21 Men who created the charter and developed rules for the colony. 

Who are the Trustees?

SS8H2 Places

100

Located on the coast of Georgia, I am the city where James Oglethorpe and the Trustees first landed.

What is Savannah?

200

We came from to GA to seek religious freedom and produce silk.

Who are the Salzburgers?

300

I am the name of the settlement that James Oglethorpe settled.  it is now known as Savannah.

What is Yamacraw Bluff?

400

I am the two areas that GA was meant to serve between as a buffer colony.

What is the English in SC and the Spanish in FL?

500

I am the first planned city in Ga.

What is Savannah?

SS8H2 Trustee Period

100

This is the period that slavery was banned.

What is the Trustee Period?

200

This group of people that were allowed in the Colony because they had a doctor.

Who are the Jewish people?

300

This group of Protestants were expelled from their native country in the 1730s because they were not Catholics.  They were seeking religious freedom.

Who are the Salzburgers?

400

These are the three primary reasons the colony of GA was settled..

What are philanthropy, economics, and defense (buffer colony)?

500

This is the document that expired causing Ga to become a Royal Colony.

What is the Charter of 1732?

SS8H2 Laws

100

I am the document that gave James Oglethorpe the authority to establish the Georgia colony.

What is the Charter of 1732?

200

The Georgia colonists were prohibited by the Trustees from buying or selling this product.

What is rum?

300

This group of early Georgia colonists got their nickname from the Trustees because they complained about not being allowed to own slaves?

Who are the Malcontents?

400

According to the Charter of 1732, these were the 2 main things the colonists were prohibited from doing.

What are no hard liquor and no slavery allowed ?

500

These two religious groups were not allowed to settle in the new GA colony.

What are the Catholic and Jewish religions?

SS8H2 Economics

100

We are the three primary cash crops during the Royal Colony period.

What is rice, tobacco, and indigo?

200

This is the system of trade by which the British would receive raw materials from the colonists, change them to finished products, and sell them to other countries for a huge profit.

What is mercantilism?

300

This is the type of tree that was planted by the Georgia colonists in order to produce silk.

What are Mulberry trees?

400

This is the place in Great Britain that housed people who could not afford to pay their taxes and debts.

What is debtor's prison?

500

This is the institution that made South Carolina very profitable, but was not allowed in Georgia when it first began.

What is slavery?