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Ga - Trustee Period
Georgia in the Trustee Period - Ch. 9 - Clairmont Press
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| proprietor | an owner |
| royal colony | a colony under the control of the king |
| mercantilism | an economic policy in which a country exports more than it imorts; colonies are expected to supply raw materials to the mother country |
| charter | a legal document that grants special rights and sets up the rules under which something operates |
| trustee | a person who holds responsibility and acts on behalf of others |
| militia | a force of citizen soldiers |
| ally | a person, group, or country who joins with one another for a common interest |
| slavery | the practice of owning people as property |
| indentured servant | a person who sold his or her labor for a period of years in return for passage to the New World and support during the period of servitude |
| pacifist | one who believes that any kind of fighting or violence is wrong |
| Malcontent | a complainer; one who was not happy with the Georgia colony rules |
| artisan | a skilled craftsperson |
| James Edward Oglethorpe | The founder of Georgia as a penal colony under three reasons: charitable, military defense, economic reasons. |
| Tomochichi | Chief of the Yamacraw tribe who was leader when Ga. was founded. |
| John and Mary Musgrove | Had Native mothers and British fathers, owned a trading post and became interpreters for Oglethorpe. |
| William Bull | A South Carolina surveyor who laid out the first plans of the city of Savannah with streets and squares. |
| Salzburgers | German-peaking Lutherans who settled in Ebenezer (1734) and New Ebenezer (1736) and farmed and produced silk. |
| John Martin Bolzius | Minister and leader of the Slazburgers in the Georgia colony. |
| Moravians | German-speaking Protestants who were pacifists and settled near Savannah. By 1740 most left Ga for Pennsylvania. |
| Highland Scots | a group of colonists recruited by Oglethorpe to be used as soldiers and protect the southern end of the colony. Most lived in Darien. |
| William Stephens | hired as the secretary of the Georgia colony in 1737, he bacame the President of the Georgia colony in 1743 when Oglethorpe left. |
| Yamacraw Bluff | the name given to the bluff the city/settlement of Savannah was founded on. |
| New Ebenezer | the second settlement of the Lutheran Salzburgers from Germany in the Georgia Colony |
| Darien | The location where most of the Highland Scots settled at the south end of the Georgia Colony |
| Frederica | southern fort and town on St. Simons island |
| Augusta | The northern most fort and town on the Savannah River |
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