SS8H3 Vocabulary

The first convention of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies that gathered to discuss the colonists’ reaction to the Intolerable Acts.

• First Continental Congress
• French and Indian War
• Proclamation of 1763
• Georgia Constitution of 1777
• Pluto

A war between England, France, and their Native American allies for control of North America. The English won the war and gained large area of North American from the French. The war did not affect Georgia directly but the Georgia colony gained land after the conclusion of the conflict.

• French and Indian War
• Seven Years War
• Battle of Kettle Creek
• Revolutionary War

Royal proclamation that forbade English colonists from settling newly acquired land west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• Proclamation of 1763
• Declaration of Independence
• Georgia Constitution of 1777
• Broadside

Global conflict between the European great powers; the French and Indian War was part of this larger conflict.

• Seven Years War
• French and Indian War
• Battle of Kettle Creek
• Revolutionary War

Three-part document that discusses natural rights, explains the wrongs committed by King George, and offers an official declaration of independence from England.

• Declaration of Independence
• Georgia Constitution of 1777
• Broadside
• Proclamation of 1763

Georgia's first constitution after becoming independent from England.

• Georgia Constitution of 1777
• Declaration of Independence
• Broadside
• Proclamation of 1763

An official statement of a complaint over something believed to be wrong or unfair.

• Grievances
• Proclamation of 1763
• Declaration of Independence
• Georgia Constitution of 1777

Georgia signer of the Declaration of Independence; killed in a duel with Lachlan McIntosh.

• Button Gwinnett
• Lyman Hall
• George Walton
• James Oglethorpe

Georgia signer of the Declaration of Independence; governor of Georgia.

• Lyman Hall
• Button Gwinnett
• George Walton
• James Oglethorpe

The opening statements of the Georgia and the U.S. Constitutions; states the fundamental purposes of the documents

• Preamble
• Declaration of Independence
• Broadside
• Proclamation of 1763