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Royal Colony of Ga
Georgia as a Royal Colony - Ch. 10 - Clairmont Press
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| French and Indian War | French and their Indian allies fought the British for control of the land west of the Appalachian mountains |
| parish | in colonial Georgia, a government and religious district |
| vestry | in colonial Georgia, a local governing board for a parish |
| cede | to surrender, especially land or territory |
| naval stores | turpentine, rosin, tar, and pitch |
| cash crop | a crop grown to be sold for income |
| headright system | a system of distributing land by which each "head" of a household received 100 acres plus 50 additional acres for each memebr of the household |
| tutor | a person who makes money by teaching children for a fee |
| immigrant | one who moves into a country to live |
| cracker | a group of often illiterate and uneducated farmers who moved from Virginia and the Caorlinas to the middle and western parts of the colony of Georgia |
| profit | the amount left after all costs, or expenses, are paid |
| slave code | a series of laws governing what slaves and slave owners could and could not do |
| denomination | an oragnized religious group |
| John Reynolds | first royal governor of Georgia; increased defense and split support in the colony |
| Henry Ellis | the second royal governor of Georgia; divided Georgia into eight parishes, improved defense, economy, and people were happier |
| James Wright | third and final royal governor of Georgia; negotiated the Treaty of Augusta, worked hard to increase population and wealth of Georgia. |
| Puritans | became successful planters and built the town Midway and the port of Sunbury |
| Quakers | founded the town of Wrightsboro; believed in equality of all people and violence against fellow humans was wrong |
| Scots-Irish | Scots who had left Scotland to settle in Ireland; settled in Queensborough along the Ogeechee river. |
| Bartholomew Zouberbuhler | most successful Anglican minister during the Royal Period |
| Midway | successful town settled by the Puritans; halfway between Savannah and Darien |
| Sunbury | successful port created by the Puritans at the mouth of the Ogeechee River |
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