Name: __________________________
Date: __________ Period: __________
Unit 2: Exploration and Georgia Colonization
I. Exploration of the New World
1. ____________________ Spanish explorer; in 1540, first person to explore Georgia
2. ____________________ Disease, from Europe, that killed many Native Americans
3. ____________________ Church started by Spain to convert people to Catholicism and
bring the Native Americans into the Spanish colonial system
4. ____________________ Three primary reasons Spain explored the New World
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5. ____________________ Three major European countries competing for the New World
____________________ and reasons for exploration
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II. Georgia as a Trustee Colony
6. ____________________ Name of the first settlement (city) in Georgia
7. ____________________ Issued the Charter of 1732 which created GA
8. ____________________ Type of colony that is run by a board of Trustees
9. ____________________ “Father of Georgia”; Founder and Head Trustee of Georgia, led
the initiative to start the new colony.
10. ____________________ Group that Oglethorpe brought to help defend Georgia
11. ____________________ List 3 things that were promised to the settlers who could not
____________________ pay their own way to North America.
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12. ____________________ reason given for Georgia to serve as a buffer colony
13. ____________________ This conflict was MOST important because it was the
beginning of a safe southern frontier for the British.
14. ____________________ Served as interpreter for Oglethorpe and Tomochichi
15. ____________________ land where the first colonist arrived in Georgia
16. ____________________ Yamacraw Chief that gave permission for Oglethorpe to land
at Yamacraw Bluff
17. ____________________ Where did the Highland Scots settle?
18. ____________________ Where did the Salzburgers first settle?
19. ____________________ Reason the Salzburgers come to Georgia
20. ____________________ Where were the Salburgers from?
21. ____________________ Dissatisfied Georgia colonists who complained about the
Trustees policies
22. ____________________ People unable to pay their bills; imprisoned in Great Britain
23. ____________________ Name three (3) groups that were not allowed to settle in
____________________ Georgia
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III. Georgia as a Royal Colony
24. ____________________ Type of colony GA became after the Charter of 1732 expired;
ruled by a king
25. ____________________ Title of the person who controlled (governed) Royal Colonies
26. ____________________ Year that Georgia became a Royal Colony
27. ____________________ Name the three (3) Royal Governors of Georgia
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28. ____________________ Georgia’s longest serving Royal Governor
29. ____________________This Royal Governor was popular and Georgia grew
economically, but left because he was sick.
30. ___________________ Royal Governor that was disliked for disbanding the colonies
legislature, first Royal Governor
31. ___________________ List the changes in government to the colony when it became a
___________________ Royal Colony
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32. ____________________ Country that controlled the Florida Territory
33. ____________________ Economic system where you export more than you import
34. ____________________ Three rules/laws the Trustees enforced for Georgia; changed
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during Georgia’s time as a Royal Colony
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35. ____________________ Person, considered property, forced to work for their owner
36. ____________________ Religion that was not allowed to settle (live in) Georgia
37. ____________________ War that ended the Royal Period of Georgia’s history
Vocabulary: Proprietary Colony, Royal Colony, Militia, Indigo, Charter