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Philanthropic
Military
Economic - ✔✔Three reasons for the establishment of Georgia
Restrictions on land ownership
Prohibition of hard liquor
Prohibition of slavery - ✔✔Strict rules established my the Trustees for the colony
James Oglethorpe - ✔✔defacto leader and one of the Trustees of the first settlers in
Georgia. helped establish Savannah, Augusta, and Fort Frederica
James Wright - ✔✔longest serving, most influential governor of the Royal Colony.
Expanded and opened Georgia's frontier to farmers by obtaining peaceful land cessions
from the Native Americans
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, Tomochichi - ✔✔Allowed Oglethorpe to settle on Yamacraw Bluff; advised Oglethorpe
on Indian affairs, chief of the Yamacraw
The Rules and Regulations - ✔✔first governing document of independent Georgia put
into place by Provincial Congress (Whigs)
John Treutlen - ✔✔first governor of GA
Yazoo Land Fraud - ✔✔in 1795, Georgia legislators sold over 40 acres of land to 4 land
companies for 1.5 cents per acre; they were voted out of office and deal nullified by
James Jackson
Fletcher v. Peck (1810) - ✔✔Supreme Court rule stating the state couldn't nullify the
Yazoo Land deal
George Walton
Lyman Hall
Button Gwinnett - ✔✔Georgians who signed the Declaration of Independence
Savannah - Augusta - Louisville - Milledgeville - Atlanta - ✔✔Capitals of Georgia
Worcester v. Georgia - ✔✔Supreme Court decision that ruled that Georgia had no right
to interfere with the Cherokees controlled land
Trail of Tears - ✔✔the trek of Native Americans, particularly the Cherokee, to Indian
Territory
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