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WorksheetsHow Georgia became a Colony
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 50mins
Who had the idea to start a debtors colony called Georgia?
Tomochichi
King George
James Oglethorpe
Adam Smith
Why did James Oglethorpe want to form a new colony?
He wanted criminals to be given a second chance
He thought debtors should not be in prison
He wanted to sell debtors as slaves to Spain
His friend died in a debtors prison so he wanted to help others
Wanting to help the poor debtors by giving them a new start is doing something good for someone else without benefitting from it yourself. This is called:
Homeless Care
Royal Duty
Philanthropy
Indentured Slavery
Which 3 were the reasons for the colony of GA?
Defense
Philanthropy
Trading
Economy
Wheat, Rice, Indigo, Silk, and Tabaco were the WRIST products the colonists had to produce.
True
False
Oglethorpe claimed Georgia would be a buffer colony to keep South Carolina safe. What part of the Charter of 1732 ensured that defense would happen?
The colonists would be a human shield in front of the Spanish
The colonists would trade with the Spanish to make friends with them
The colonists would make friends with the Natives to ensure they continued to attack the Spanish
The colonists had to fight in the defense of Georgia and South Carolina in order to live there
Tomochichi was the Chief of the Yamacraw Natives and hated James Oglethorpe
True
False
Which is NOT true about Mary Musgrove?
She was half Native American and half English
She could speak both Muskogee and English which made her a good translator
She was married to James Oglethorpe making a peaceful transition for the colonists
She is the only reason Tomochichi and Oglethorpe could negotiate and thus, Oglethorpe gaining the land for GA
Without Mary Musgrove, Oglethorpe, and Tomochichi, there would have been no colony of Georgia or city of Savannah.
True
False
What was the name of the city of Savannah before Oglethorpe built the city there?
Creek Ridge
Lakota Landing
Yamacraw Bluff
None of these
