FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT GEORGIA

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FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT GEORGIA

STATEHOOD EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Proprietary colony

Answer:

When a colony is under the control of the trustees

Question 2: Captain George Dunbar

Answer:

recruited Highland Scots to settle in Georgia

Question 3: Settlement

Answer:

a place a group of people may make their temporary or permanent home

Question 4: Czech Republic

Answer:

where the Protestant Moravians were from

Question 5: King George II

Answer:

issued the Charter of 1732 which gave Oglethrope the permission to start the new colony of Georgia is

Question 6: Siege

Answer:

A military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off supplies with the aim of compelling the surrender of those inside

Question 7: Philip II

Answer:

Declared war against the French for settling in Florida

Question 8: Ebenezer

Answer:

The town founded by the Salzburgers

Question 9: Charlesfort

Answer:

established by Jean Ribault, this was a French fort along the southern tip of South Carolina

Question 10: Highland Scots

Answer:

men who were recruited by Oglethorpe to live in the colony of Georgia because of their fighting ability

Question 11: John Reynolds

Answer:

Georgia's first royal governor (1754-1757) was not very successful, people hated his rules and regulations

Question 12: Salzburgers

Answer:

German protestants who came to the Georgia colony and founded the cities of Ebenezer and New Ebenezer

Question 13: Austria

Answer:

where the Salzburgers were from

Question 14: Mary Musgrove

Answer:

(Native American name...Coosaponakessa) child of English sailor and Native American woman credited with smoothing over relations between Native Americans and the early Georgia settlers

Question 15: Henry Ellis

Answer:

Georgia's second royal governor (1757-1760) under which Georgians learned how to govern themselves, and they have been doing so ever since. left because of poor health

Question 16: Moravians

Answer:

a religious group that settled in Georgia that had different views about religion including allowing women to be religious leaders

Question 17: John Martin Bolzius

Answer:

leader of the Salzburgers which was a group that settled in Georgia and was against slavery

Question 18: Christinanity

Answer:

Believing in Jesus Christ

Question 19: Spain

Answer:

European nation that was the first to explore and make a settlement in the new world

Question 20: Lord Halifax

Answer:

As the head of the British Board of Trade, he removed Reynolds (poor job performance) and sent Ellis in his place as royal Governor

Question 21: Guale

Answer:

the first Spanish settlement on the coast of the area now known as Georgia

Question 22: St. Augustine, FL

Answer:

The first settlement in the United States, settled by the Spanish

Question 23: Battle of Bloody Marsh

Answer:

fought on St. Simons Island, Oglethorpe's soldiers defeated Spanish forces in the only Spanish invasion of Georgia during the War of Jenkins' Ear

Question 24: land grants

Answer:

a way of distributing land during the colonial era

Question 25: Trustee

Answer:

a person trusted by the king and was chosen to govern the colony of Georgia

Question 26: Europeans

Answer:

People from countries such as England, Spain, France, Portugal, or Germany

Question 27: Mississippi River

Answer:

River the runs in the Mississippi River Delta that was a resource for Native Americans and Europeans

Question 28: Indentured Servants

Answer:

People who financed their voyage to the new world by agreeing to work for the person who paid their way for a set number of years (~4 to 7)