
Unit 3 Colonial Georgia
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8th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which person from colonial Georgia is matched CORRECTLY with their description?
Tomochichi — Chief of the Cherokees during the French and Indian War
King George II — Resident Trustee of the Georgia colony
James Oglethorpe — First Royal Governor of Georgia
Mary Musgrove — translator / interpreter between English colonists and Native Americans
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The economic reason for settlement in Georgia involved colonists growing grapes, mulberry trees, and indigo plants in order to produce wine, silk, and blue dye. This economic policy between American colonies and their mother country of Great Britain was known as…
capitalism
communism
mercantilism.
socialism
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Georgia’s Charter of 1732 established guidelines and rules created by James Oglethorpe and the trustees. All the following were rules enforced during the trustee period of Georgia EXCEPT…
Catholics were banned from the colony.
Those who owned land could vote.
Rum was outlawed (not allowed).
Slavery was illegal.
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
James Oglethorpe is BEST described as…
a member of Parliament who wanted to establish a colony for debtors and worthy poor.
a businessman who wanted to establish plantations in Georgia.
a slave-owner who introduced Africans to Georgia.
a royal governor who finally convinced the king to make Georgia a royal colony.
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which statement BEST explains why England established the Georgia colony?
England wanted a port available for ships sailing to China and the East Indies.
England wanted to create a trading partnership with the Native Americans.
England wanted to provide a safe haven for Catholics who were being persecuted.
England wanted a buffer state to prevent Spanish and Native American invasions of South Carolina.
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following was NOT a reason for founding the colony of Georgia?
protect South Carolina from Spanish attack.
expand the slave trade
provide charity for Great Britain’s worthy poor.
support economic policy of mercantilism by exports to England
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following statements would have MOST LIKELY been made by a “Malcontent”?
“Slavery is morally wrong, and we cannot have it in Georgia!
“God bless Oglethorpe and our Trustees!”
“Keep rum illegal in Georgia!”
“It’s my land! I should have a right to sell it or to have slaves work the crops I want to grow!”
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