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Georgia History: overview - Correct answer ✔Georgia was the last of the thirteen colonies
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to be founded. Its formation came a half century after the twelfth British colony.Georgia
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was the only colony founded and ruled by a Board of Trustees, which was based in London.
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Mississippian Period: overview - Correct answer ✔(A.D. 800-1600), complex native cultures, |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




organized as chiefdoms, emerged and developed lifeways in response to the particular
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features of their physical surroundings. |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




chiefdoms - Correct answer ✔a specific kind of human social organization with social |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




ranking as a fundamental part of their structure. In ranked societies people belonged to one
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of two groupings, elites or commoners.
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elites vs commoners - Correct answer ✔rested more on ideological and religious beliefs
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than on such things as wealth or military
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Purpose of mounds in Mississippian culture - Correct answer ✔capitals of chiefdoms,
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platforms for buildings, as stages for religious and social activities, and as cemeteries.
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Who was Georgia named after? - Correct answer ✔King George II
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Hernando de soto in georgia - Correct answer ✔The first European to explore the interior of
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what is now the state of Georgia
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discovered the true way the Indians lived, but devastated their societies with the plague |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




and small pox |||||| ||||||

,spanish missions - Correct answer ✔Located on Georgia's barrier islands established to
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convert Native Americans to Christianity Located near Native American village centers
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(where the most people were) required Native Americans to provide labor to the Spanish
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James Oglethorpe - Correct answer ✔Founder and governor of the Georgia colony. He ran a
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tightly-disciplined, military-like colony. Slaves, alcohol, and Catholicism were forbidden in |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




his colony. Many colonists felt that Oglethorpe was a dictator, and that (along with the
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colonist's dissatisfaction over not being allowed to own slaves) caused the colony to break
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down and Oglethorpe to lose his position as governor.
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What did oglethrop envision georgia to be - Correct answer ✔a refuge for the debtors who
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crowded london prisons |||||| ||||||




Yamacraw Indians - Correct answer ✔a small band that existed from the late 1720s to the
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mid-1740s in the Savannah area. First led by Tomochichi and then by his nephew and heir
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Toonahowi, they consisted of about 200 people and contained a mix of Lower Creeks and |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Yamasees. worked with oglethorpe |||||| |||||| ||||||




malcontents - Correct answer ✔Among those to voice displeasure with the policies of |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




General James Oglethorpe and the Georgia Trustees during the early years of Georgia's
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settlement
Led by:Patrick Tailfer Thomas Stephens.
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Tomochichi - Correct answer ✔cheif of the yamacraw indians and acted as a mediator |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




between the native people and the new english settlers |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Royal Georgia - Correct answer ✔refers to the period between the termination of Trustee
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governance of Georgia and the colony's declaration of independence at the beginning of the |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




American Revolution (1775-83).
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Battle of Bloody Marsh - Correct answer ✔On July 7, 1742, English and Spanish forces
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skirmished on St. Simons Island in an encounter later known as the Battle of Bloody Marsh. |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||

, This event was the only Spanish attempt to invade Georgia during the War of Jenkins' Ear,
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and it resulted in a significant English victory. General James Oglethorpe redeemed his
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reputation from his defeat at St. Augustine, Florida |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




First three royal governors of georgia - Correct answer ✔John Reynolds, Henry Ellis, James
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Wright


James Wright - Correct answer ✔The third and LAST royal governor of Georgia. Played a key
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role in retarding the flame of revolution in Georgia long after it had flared violently in every
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other colony.
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Salzburgers - Correct answer ✔a group of Protestants from Austria who were invited to |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




settle in Georgia due to religious persecution they were experiencing in Europe; established
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the towns of Ebenezer and New Ebenezer; were some of the most successful colonists.
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a group of German-speaking Protestant colonists, founded the town of Ebenezer in what is
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now Effingham County. |||||| ||||||




rice - Correct answer ✔Georgia's first staple crop, the most important commercial
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agricultural commodity in the Lowcountry from the middle of the eighteenth century until |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




the early twentieth century.
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revolutionary war in georgia - Correct answer ✔The colony had prospered under royal rule, |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




and many Georgians thought that they needed the protection of British troops against a
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possible Indian attack. Georgia did not send representatives to the First Continental
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Congress that met in Philadelphia, |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Button Gwinnett - Correct answer ✔one of three Georgia signers of the Declaration of
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Independence. He served in Georgia's colonial legislature, in the Second Continental |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Congress, and as president of Georgia's Revolutionary Council of Safety. |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||

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