UNIT 2 STUDY GUIDE (COLONIAL GEORGIA): Complete this study guide on you own paper. ***Indicates potential discussion questions!!!
1. Know all vocabulary terms in Chapter 8 (Section 2 only) plus Chapters 9 and 10. Just review them, and study the ones you don’t remember.
2. Identify the significance of the explorations of Christopher Columbus, Hernando de Soto, Pedro Menendez, and Ponce de Leon.
3. Name TWO results of Hernando de Soto’s exploration.
4. Explain three reasons Spain (& other countries) wanted colonies (3 G’s)?
5. What were the goals of the Spanish missions? What were the effects/results of the missions?
6. Why was France not successful in colonizing the southeast?
7. ***Explain England’s policy of mercantilism. How was Georgia a part of this policy (what was GA supposed to produce)?
8. Name THREE facts about the relationship between English settlers Native Americans.
9. The Georgia charter: What was it? When did Georgia receive its official charter? What king granted it?
10. Who were the trustees? Who was the resident trustee in Georgia?
11. What was Georgia’s first settlement? In what year was it settled?
12. What were FOUR rules that the trustees placed on the Georgia colonists?
13. What THREE restrictions did the trustees have to follow so they wouldn’t personally benefit from the colony?
14. According to the charter what were the THREE official reasons for the creation of Georgia? Also, what was an unofficial reason that Georgia was created?
15. What did the Spanish in Florida offer escaped slaves if they converted to Catholicism?
16. ***Georgia as a defensive colony:
a. Georgia was a buffer colony against who (name THREE threats to Georgia)?
b. What TWO forts did Oglethorpe build?
c. What was the result of the Battle of the Bloody Marsh?
d. Which religious group was specifically excluded from coming to Georgia? Why?
17. ***People in trustee Georgia:
· Salzburgers: Where were they from? Why did they come to GA? What was their settlement?
· Highland Scots: What was their town in Georgia? Why did Oglethorpe recruit them?
· Malcontents: Name THREE things they were unhappy with under trustee rule.
18. Why did the trustees hand over Georgia to the English government in 1751-1752?
19. Royal rule leadership: Complete the chart on your paper.
How they were chosen / Jobs/Duties/RolesRoyal Governor
Governor’s Council
Commons House of Assembly
20. Royal Governors: Identify and explain the accomplishments of John Reynolds, and James Wright.
21. ***Under royal rule (or after Oglethorpe left) how did the following change?
a. land ownership rules/laws
b. farming economy and slavery
c. Why did social classes develop during the royal rule period?
22. Who fought on each side of the French and Indian War? Who won?
23. What was Georgia’s western boundary when it was created? What was it after the French and Indian War?
24. What was Georgia’s southern boundary when it was created? What was it after the French and Indian War?
25. Describe the headright system.
26. What kind of hardships/difficulties did early Georgia colonists face (name at least 3)?
27. What was an indentured servant? How were they different from slaves?
28. The economy of the southern colonies became based upon agriculture and slave labor. Name FIVE facts about the work of slaves.
29. Define slave codes? Give two examples of slave codes.
30. What were the TWO main cash crops of Georgia?
31. What was the government supported church in the English colonies? Name FOUR other religious groups/denominations that existed in Georgia.
32. Who were the Salzburgers? Where were they from? Why did they come to Georgia?
33. Why was slave labor so important to many people in the southern colonies?
34. What were triangular trade and the Middle Passage?
35. Identify: James Oglethorpe, King George II, Tomochichi, John and Mary Musgrove, William Stephens, Samuel Nunes, George Whitefield, John Martin Bolzius.