Review for H2 Colonial Georgia Test
1. Why did fighting break out between the English and Spanish in 1670 after the English
founded the South Carolina Colony?
2. How did Mary Musgrove have a positive impact on English and Native American
relations?
3. Why was Tomochichi’s trip to England important?
4. Why did James Oglethorpe want to move English debtors to a colony in the New World?
5. Why did the King of England think that Georgia would be a great military defense?
6. Why did the Highland Scots and Salzburgers fight against the Malcontents?
7. Why was the Battle of Bloody March vital to England and their colonies?
8. Why did Oglethorpe want the Highland Scots to move to GA?
9. Why did the Salzburgers move to the Georgia Colony?
10. The first Royal governor, John Reynolds, was viewed as a poor leader. What made the
colonists view him in this manner?
11. How did the repeal of slavery boost the Georgia Colony economy?
12. Why is Henry Ellis remembered as the second founder of Georgia?
13. Because of his popularity as an effective and admired Royal Governor of the Georgia
Colony, what was James Wright allowed to do?
14. Why were the Highland Scots most valued when they arrived in 1736?
15. What did the colonists believe Georgia’s climate was perfect for?
16. Why was the Port of Savannah seen as controversial in the mid-1700s?
17. Whom did James Oglethorpe did the Georgia Colony from in 1742?
18. Whom did Mary Musgrove serve as a diplomat between?
19. What governing body did the Georgia Charter of 1732 establish?
20. Which business person and diplomat was instrumental to the founding of the City of
Savannah?
21. Who was John Reynolds?
22. What was the most likely reason why slavery was banned while Georgia was a Royal
Colony?
23. What industry dramatically increased as a result of the Georgia Colony lifting the ban on
slavery?
24. Who was the second Royal Governor of Georgia?
25. Who were the Salzburgers?
26. Describe the governing of the Georgia Colony from 1732 to 1752.
27. Who was the leader of the Yamacraw? What did he do for the early Georgia settlers?
28. What did it mean that Georgia was a “buffer colony”?
29. Describe the Trustee Period?
30. What was a major achievement for the trustees during the Trustee Period of Georgia?