Geography of Georgia
Georgia Before European Exploration
Europe Explores North America
The Trustee Period
The Royal Colony
100
This is the smallest of Georgia's five geographic regions, located in the northwestern corner and known for Lookout Mountain.
What is the Appalachian Plateau?
100
This Native American culture was living in Georgia when European explorers first arrived and was known for building large earthen mounds for political and religious centers.
Who are the Mississippians?
100
This Spanish explorer led an expedition through Georgia in 1540, searching for gold and leaving disease and devastation in his path.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
100
He is considered the founder of Georgia and served as the lead Trustee who helped settle the colony in 1733.
Who is James Oglethorpe?
100
When the Trustee Period ended in 1752, control of Georgia returned to this British leader, making it a official Royal Colony.
Who is the King (King George II)?
200
This natural boundary and geographic feature separates the Piedmont and Coastal Plain regions, causing rivers to create waterfalls and rapids.
What is the Fall Line?
200
Mississippian culture relied heavily on agriculture, cultivating staple crops known as the "Three Sisters," which included corn, squash, and this food item.
What are beans?
200
The main goal of Spanish exploration in North America is often summarized by these three "G" words.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
200
Georgia was established for three main reasons outlined in the Charter of 1732: Defense, Economics, and this charitable purpose.
What is Philanthropy (or Charity)?
200
Unlike during the Trustee period, the Royal Colony permitted this practice, leading to a massive increase in plantation agriculture.
What is Slavery?
300
Spanning over 400,000 acres in southeastern Georgia, this is the largest freshwater swamp in North America.
What is the Okefenokee Swamp?
300
Mississippians constructed their shelters using this building technique, which involved weaving sticks together and covering them with a clay mixture.
What is wattle and daub?
300
Spain established these religious outposts along Georgia's Barrier Islands to convert Native Americans to Catholicism.
What are Spanish Missions?
300
his Yamacraw chief befriended James Oglethorpe and allowed the British settlers to build Savannah on Yamacraw Bluff.
Who is Tomochichi?
300
The King appointed this type of official to govern Georgia directly, with John Reynolds being the first to hold the office.
What is a Royal Governor?
400
The image represents this Georgia physical feature.
What are the Barrier Islands?
400
Mississippian society was organized into this hierarchy, led by a single powerful leader who lived on top of the community's ceremonial mound.
What is a Chiefdom?
400
While Spain explored to find gold and convert natives, Great Britain's economic goal in exploring the region was based on this trade system of gathering raw materials to export back to the mother country.
What is Mercantilism?
400
This group of German Protestants settled the town of Ebenezer and were highly valued in the colony for their work ethic and opposition to slavery.
Who are the Salzburgers?
400
During the Royal Period, Georgia established its first self-governing legislature, which was known as this assembly.
What is the Commons House of Assembly?
500
These four major river systems—the Chattahoochee, Savannah, Flint, and Ocmulgee—provide water, power, and transportation across the state, but this one forms most of Georgia's border with Alabama.
What is the Chattahoochee River?
500
This is the population group that is included in the blue section.
What are the "Commoners"? Farmers, defense, hunters, etc.
500
These were primary motives for England settling the Colony of Georgia.
What is Philanthropy, Economics, and Defense
500
Discontented colonists who complained about the strict Trustee rules against land ownership, rum, and slavery were known by this collective name.
Who are the Malcontents?
500
He was Georgia's third and final Royal Governor, who was very popular because he expanded land ownership, boosted the economy, and kept the colony prosperous until the American Revolution.
Who is James Wright?