Royal Colony 2a

Arriving at the Georgia colony in 1757, this Royal Governor became popular for dividing the colony into eight parishes, providing charity for the poor, maintaining roads, and overseeing churches. Although he was popular, he found the heat and humidity too difficult, walking around Savannah with an umbrella to block the sun and a thermometer hanging from the handle.

• James Oglethorpe

• John Reynolds

• Henry Ellis

• James Wright

In 1758, Georgia was divided into eight parishes. In this case, a parish is (a) ____________________.

• fruit

• government and religious district

• Catholic church

• around two of something

Although he was born in England, ___________________ had spent most of his adult life in South Carolina, so he was used to the southern climate. He also became the third Royal Governor for the Georgia Colony in 1760.

• James Oglethorpe

• James Wright

• Henry Ellis

• John Reynolds

The Treaty of Augusta was an agreement between the Royal governors of four southern colonies and the Creek and Cherokee Indians. According to the treaty, the Creek and the Cherokee would "cede" to the Georgia colony all the land between the Ogeechee and the Savannah Rivers north to Little River .

The word "cede" means to _________________________.

• plant crops

• interrupt or interject

• surrender or give up something

• that you saw something yesterday or in the past

With the French and Indian War ending in 1763 by the signing of the Treaty of Paris, how were the colonial borders of Georgia changed?

• Georgia's western border now extended all the way to the Pacific Ocean

• Georgia's western border only extended to the Mississippi River

• Georgia's southern border extended to the Gulf of Mexico

• Georgia's borders were unchanged.