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Georgia history
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Royal Period (colony) | Georgia became a Royal Colony when the Trustee Period ended in 1752. |
| Savannah | Savannah, a coastal Georgia city, is separated from South Carolina by the Savannah River. |
| Worthy Poor | The other assumption is, that the so-called worthy poor are people who are incapacitated and incapable of supporting themselves, probably due to sickness, disability, or old age. |
| Trustee | an individual person or member of a board given control or powers of administration of property in trust with a legal obligation to administer it solely for the purposes specified. |
| Trustee Period | Trustee Georgia is the name of the period covering the first twenty years of Georgia history, from 1732–1752, because during that time the English Province of Georgia was governed by a Board of Trustees. |
| Charter of 1732 | Twenty trustees received funding from Parliament and a charter from the King, issued in June 1732. The charter granted the trustees the powers of a corporation |
| Debtor. | a person or institution that owes a sum of money. |
| Rice Rivers | The Rice River is a 57.1-mile-long (91.9 km) tributary of the Mississippi River in northern Minnesota, United States The Rice River takes its name from the abundant wild rice that once fed Native Americans. |
| Philanthropy | the desire to promote the welfare of others, expressed especially by the generous donation of money to good causes. |
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