Royal Colony 1

Which one of these was NOT a power given to the Royal Governor of Georgia?

• the right to call the legislature into session or dismiss it

• the right to enforce the rules set up in the Charter of 1732

• the right to grant land

• the right to commission ships

The twelve-member council officially appointed by the king was called the ____________________.

• Senate

• Parliament

• Governor's Council

• House of Representatives

In the new Royal Colony of Georgia, a free white man with at least five hundred acres of land would be eligible for election to the __________________________.

• Senate

• Governor's Council

• Commons House of Assembly

• House of Representatives

With its upper house and its lower house, Georgia's governing body could be described as a _______________ legislature.

• Uneven

• Bicameral

• Parliamentarian

• constitutional

Appointed by King George II on October 29, 1754, the first Royal Governor of the new Royal Georgia colony was _______________________.

• George Washington

• John Reynolds

• James Oglethorpe

• Henry Ellis