Unit 2: Exploration and Georgia Colonization

Who was the first European explorer to enter present day Georgia?

• Ponce de Leon
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Hernando de Soto
• Francisco Pizarro

Disease, from Europe, that killed many Native Americans

• Smallpox
• Chickenpox
• Black Plague
• Flu

Church started by Spain to convert people to Catholicism

• Missions
• Methodist 
• Church of God

Three primary reasons Spain explored the New World

• God
  Gold
  Glory
• Guns
  Game
  Gems
• Hunting
  Gold
  Slaves

Three major European countries competing for the New World

• Spain
  France
  England
• France
  England
  Canada
• Spain 
  Algeria
  Poland
• Sweden
  Switzerland
  Poland

Name of the first settlement (city) in Georgia

• Savannah 
• Atlanta
• Milledgeville
• Brasstown Bald

Signed the Charter of 1732 which created GA

• King George II
• King George V
• James Oglethorpe

“Father of Georgia”; Founder and Head Trustee of Georgia

• James Oglethorpe
• King George III
• King Phillip IV
• Button Gwinnett

Number of Trustees that lead GA during the Trustee Period  

• 21
• 12
• 9
• 6

Served as interpreter for Oglethorpe and Tomochichi

• Mary Musgrove
• King George II
• Mary J. Blige