How Georgia became a Colony

Who had the idea to start a debtors colony called Georgia?

• Tomochichi

• King George

• James Oglethorpe

• Adam Smith

Why did James Oglethorpe want to form a new colony?

• He wanted criminals to be given a second chance

• He thought debtors should not be in prison

• He wanted to sell debtors as slaves to Spain

• His friend died in a debtors prison so he wanted to help others

Wanting to help the poor debtors by giving them a new start is doing something good for someone else without benefitting from it yourself. This is called:

• Homeless Care

• Royal Duty

• Philanthropy

• Indentured Slavery

Which 3 were the reasons for the colony of GA?

• Defense

• Philanthropy

• Trading

• Economy

Wheat, Rice, Indigo, Silk, and Tabaco were the WRIST products the colonists had to produce.

• True

• False

Oglethorpe claimed Georgia would be a buffer colony to keep South Carolina safe. What part of the Charter of 1732 ensured that defense would happen?

• The colonists would be a human shield in front of the Spanish

• The colonists would trade with the Spanish to make friends with them

• The colonists would make friends with the Natives to ensure they continued to attack the Spanish

• The colonists had to fight in the defense of Georgia and South Carolina in order to live there

Tomochichi was the Chief of the Yamacraw Natives and hated James Oglethorpe

• True

• False

Which is NOT true about Mary Musgrove?

• She was half Native American and half English

• She could speak both Muskogee and English which made her a good translator

• She was married to James Oglethorpe making a peaceful transition for the colonists

• She is the only reason Tomochichi and Oglethorpe could negotiate and thus, Oglethorpe gaining the land for GA

Without Mary Musgrove, Oglethorpe, and Tomochichi, there would have been no colony of Georgia or city of Savannah.

• True

• False

What was the name of the city of Savannah before Oglethorpe built the city there?

• Creek Ridge

• Lakota Landing

• Yamacraw Bluff

• None of these