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Romesburg GA Charter
georgia's Charter activty
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what year did Tomochichi die? | 1739 |
| what year did the trustees of Georgia vote to allow slavery? | 1755 |
| How many settlers went to georgia to make a colony | 114 |
| How many families went to settle in Georgia | 35 |
| How many years would the trustees be responseible for Georgia? | 21 |
| Who was the head of the Charity of Trustees? | James Oglethorpe |
| what was the area where Oglethorpe wanted to settle called? | Yamacraw Bluff |
| what was one thing not stated in the Charter? | Religion |
| What was 3 purposes of Georgia's Charter? | Charity, Economics,and Defense |
| what did the England see Georgia as? | A home for Protestants being persecuted in Europe |
| what did John Musgrove and his wife Mary operate? | A Trading Post |
| What Ethinicy was Mary Musgrove mother and father? | Mother-Creek Indian Father-White |
| what strict rules would be the key to making Georgia a model society? | strict rules on land and work and carefully selected colonists |
| What was the offical church for France and Spain? | Roman Catholic |
| What would the people coming to Georgia be free to do | free to worship as they please |
| what is Georgia's border to the south | The Altamaha River |
| What is Georgia's Northern border | The Savannah River |
| When did the trustees give up the Charter and make Georgia a royal colony? | 1752 |
| Where would the line be drawn for the west border | due west to the Pacific Ocean |
| What was the second thing that happend in 1739? | Britain declares war on Spain |
| What is Yamacraw a branch of? | Creek |
| What was the name ship the settlers came to Georgia on? | Anne |
| What did the trustees want to avoid? | poverty |
| What did the Carolinians promise to do? | Support Georgia in any way possible |
| What year did Georgia become a royal colony | 1752 |
| When did the first colonists come to the Yamacraw Bluff? | 1733 |
| Why weren't Catholics allowed in Georgia? | The spainish were in Flordia. They were catholics. |
| Who was the cheif of the Yamacraw Tribe? | Tomochichi |
| How did the trustees raise money? | Sermons, Phamphlets, Speeches, and Newspapers |
| Georgia was to be a great what expirment | Social |
| The number of days the voyage took from London to the New World | 88 days |
| Who did the Trustees answer to? | King George the 2nd |
| What did the king want Georgia to become to protect the Carolinas? | Buffer |
| What are peruke makers, apothecaries, millers, and surveyors called? | Artisans |
| What is a citizen army called? | Milita |
| Buy more than you sell | Mercantlism |
| Rules or laws assigned to the colonists by Oglethorpe were called? | regulations |
| What group of people did Oglethorpe want to help with the new colony? | the |
| What was the first city in the Georgia colony? | Savannah |
| What was the first fort built in Georgia around 1721? | Fort King George |