SS8H2abc Georgia's Foundations

Each of these people or terms played a role in the settling of the colony of Georgia in the early 1730s. See if you can match each term to the correct definition or description.

• Charter of 1732

• This document was issued by King George II of England, creating the colony of Georgia.

• James Oglethorpe

• This city located in Georgia was the first colonial and state capital of Georgia. It has a large historic district.

• Tomochichi

• The daughter of a Creek Indian woman and an English trader, she became a cultural mediator between Native American and European settlers in the Georgia colonies.

• Savannah

• He was an English general and founder of the colony of Georgia.

• Mary Musgrove

• He was chief of the Yamacraw Indians in the early-1700s and served as the important mediator between the English settlers of Georgia and the Native American population there.

Georgia’s Charter of 1732 outlined the reasons for the colony’s founding, namely philanthropy, economics, and defense. Classify each of the following statements as describing either philanthropy, economics, or defense in early colonial Georgia.

Groups:

(a) Philanthropy

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(b) Economics

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(c) Defense

• Trustees wanted Georgia to produce rice, indigo, and silk.

• Oglethorpe wanted Georgia to be a colony for the “worthy poor.”

• Trustees wanted to protect South Carolina from possible Spanish attack.

James Oglethorpe's hiring of Mary Musgrove had a positive impact on English and American Indian relations because

• she assembled a group of Creek Indians who defended her.

• the American Indians did not communicate with any other Europeans.

• she helped to make fair trades and negotiations between the groups.

• the American Indians saw her hiring as a sign of Oglethorpe's good will.

As a result of James Oglethorpe's determination to affect social change,

• the colony of Georgia was founded as an alternative to prison for those in debt.

• the colony of the Carolina's was established as a proprietary colony.

• thousands of Catholics were allowed to settle in the colony of Maryland.

• it was determined that the fertile Virginia soil would be most suitable for growing tobacco.

This is a picture of the Georgia Colony. A man named James Oglethorpe was in charge of building this colony. Oglethorpe was a settler from ​ (a)   .

• Britain
• Spain
• France
• Portugal

One of the reasons given for the colonization of Georgia was to serve as a "buffer" colony. This meant that Georgia was

Responses

• an outpost from which English pirates could attack Spanish galleons.

• founded to export raw materials to England and serve as a market for English imports.

• a colony built to give England's debtors a new start and a chance to escape English prisons.

• a military protective zone between the English colonies and the Spanish settlement in Florida.

Which of the following maps correctly indicates James Oglethorpe’s original settlement in colonial Georgia? 

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Which of the following provides the BEST explanation for James Oglethorpe's successful negotiations with Native Americans during the early stages of the British settlement of Georgia?

• He used force and violence to make the local tribes submit

• He hired Mary Musgrove to act as an interpreter and mediator with local tribes

• There were no Native Americans living in Georgia at the time of Oglethorpe's arrival

• He was able to convince him that he was a God

Which of the following were reasons that George II issued the Charter of 1732? (Choose 3)

• To provide a haven for American Indians that were displaced from other British colonies

• To provide a defensive buffer between the Carolinas and Spanish Florida

• To assist in converting Native Americans to the Church of England

• To formally make Georgia a British colony governed by a board of trustees

• To provide land and opportunity to indebted and poor British subjects

Read the information in the box.  It contains a list of five of the men who were appointed to govern Georgia according to its original 1732 charter.

The men in the box above are referred to as ​ (a)   .

• trustees
• governors
• administrators
• burgesses