Mississippian Culture
These Mississippian shelters were one-room houses made from interwoven sticks covered with clay or mud.
What is wattle and daub?
The three main motives for European exploration are commonly remembered by these three words starting with 'G'.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
This city served as the first settlement of the colony of Georgia.
What is Savannah?
During this 20-year initial period, land restrictions were strict, and both slavery and rum were illegal.
What is the Trustee Period?
Founder of the Georgia colony and leader of the original Trustees.
Who was James Oglethorpe?
The Mississippian civilization was organized into a hierarchical society centered around this type of leader or governance structure.
What is a chiefdom?
This Spanish explorer traveled through the Southeast and was the first European to explore Georgia, most likely introducing smallpox to Native Americans.
Who was Hernando de Soto?
This official document signed by King George II in 1732 established the colony of Georgia.
What is the Charter of 1732?
This group took control of Georgia after the Trustee period ended in 1752.
Who is the Royal Governor/ King
Leader of the Yamacraw Indians who granted land at Yamacraw Bluff to Oglethorpe.
Who was Tomochichi?
Mounds in Mississippian culture served three main purposes, including religious ceremonies, burial grounds, and this third primary function.
What is serving as platforms for elite/chief residences and public civic buildings?
This was the primary purpose of Spanish missions built along Georgia's barrier islands.
What is converting Native Americans to Catholicism?
The Charter of 1732 outlined these three main reasons for establishing the Georgia colony.
What are Philanthropy, Defense, and Economics
During the Royal Period, colonists gained these new privileges previously banned under the Trustees.
What are owning slaves, buying more land, trading rum, inheriting property, and voting?
She served as the bilingual interpreter between James Oglethorpe and Chief Tomochichi.
Who was Mary Musgrove
High wooden fence walls built around Mississippian villages served this primary defensive function.
What are palisades?
An economic policy where a mother country exports more than it imports to build wealth using colony resources.
What is mercantilism?
When James Oglethorpe sought to establish a colony for the "worthy poor," he was referring to this group in England.
Who are debtors who needed a fresh start?
As wealthy planters imported enslaved labor during the Royal Period, this major change occurred in Georgia's economy.
Answer: What is a massive surge in plantation agriculture and crop production (rice and indigo)?
This group of Scottish colonists helped defend Georgia and won the Battle of Bloody Marsh against the Spanish.
Who were the Highland Scots?
Items made of chert, copper, shell, or feathers were classified under these two categories of Mississippian life
What are defense/tools (chert knives, bow & arrow) and culture/jewelry?
Colonists in early Georgia were required to plant these trees to support silk production for trade with England.
What are mulberry trees?
Which of the following crops would have MOST likely been grown in the colonial period? There are 3 crops
What is Rice, Silk, and Indigo
Place these historical events in chronological order: (1) Charter of 1732, (2) Mississippian Period, (3) Hernando de Soto's exploration, (4) Trustee Period, (5) Royal Period
What is (2) Mississippian Period, (3) Hernando de Soto explores, (1) Charter of 1732 signed, (4) Trustee Period begins, and (5) Royal Period?
Although originally banned by the Charter of 1732, this religious group was allowed entry because they brought a doctor (Dr. Samuel Nunes).
Who were the Malvern Jews?