Exploration and Colonization - Unit Review

Largest swamp in North America; was home to many Native Americans and a location for Spanish missions

• Chert

• Maize

• Okefenoke

• Wattle and Daub

Another term for corn

• Chert

• Elites

• Maize

• Commoners

Sedimentary rock used by the American Indians to make knives

• Merchantilism

• Mission

• Chert

• Rinestone

The last major prehistoric Native American culture in Georgia; known for being large scale framers and mound builders who traded throughout North America.

• Mississippian Indians

• Paleo Indians

• Archaic

  Indians

• Woodland Indians

Several islands off of Georgia's coast; inhabited by Native Americans; the Spanish built several missions on these islands

• Fantasy

  Island

• Cayman

  Islands

• Great Britain

• Barrier Islands

Spanish conquistador who led an expedition through the Southeastern U.S.; credited as being the first European in Georgia

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernando

  DeSoto

• James

  Oglethorpe

• King James II

the royal period in Georgia beginning in 1752 after the trustees gave authority of the colony to the king. The royal period lasted until the Treaty of Paris ended the American Revolution in 1783.

• Royal Inn

• Royal Colony

• Crown

  Royal

• Royal Caribbean

Churches set up by the Spanish in hopes of converting the Native American to Christianity.

• Freedom Fighters

• Mission

• Spanish Settlers

• Revolutionaries

the English economic policy focused on exporting more than importing

• Wattle and Daub

• The New Deal

• Treaty of Paris

• Mercantilism

The first capital of Georgia; founded in 1733 by James Oglethorpe

• Atlanta

• Columbus

• Savannah

• Macon