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H2 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Royal period | The royal period in Ga beginning in 1752 after the trustees gave authority of the colony to the king |
| Savannah | The first capital of GA; founded in 1733 by James Oglethorpe |
| Trustee | An individual or organization that holds or manages and invests assets for the benefit of another; a group of 21 men who established the colony of GA |
| Trustee period | The time period from 1732 to 1751 when GA was governed by trustees who created many regulations including a ban on slavery, liquor, lawyers, and Catholics |
| Charter of 1732 | The document that formally established the colony of GA and outlined the reasons for its founding and regulations set up by the trustees |
| Defense | One of the reasons for Georgia's founding |
| Economics | One of the 3 reasons for Georgia's founding; the English hoped that GA would produce wine, rice, silk, and indigo |
| Indigo | A plant used to make a blue dye |
| Philanthropy | One of the 3 reasons for Georgia's founding; the poor and unemployed could go to apply to GA for a new start |
| Royal governor | A governor appointed by the English monarch to run a colony |
| Highland Scots | Known as the best fighters in Europe in the 1700s;served as soldiers for the colony of GA and founded the city of Darien |
| Mary Musgrove | Woman who had a Creek Indian mother and English father; served as the translator for James Oglethorpe and Yamacraw Indian Chief Tomochichi |
| James Oglethorpe | One of the 21 members of the trustees who established GA; only trustee to come to the colony and served as the de facto military and government leader of the colony |
| Tomochichi | Chief of the Yamacraw Indians; helped Oglethorpe to establish the colony of GA |