Building Vocabulary: Colonial Georgia

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Across
  1. 2. Oglethorpe: An ex member of the British parliament that decided that Georgia needed to be a colony in order to protect the English from the Spanish.
  2. 6. Colony: A colony that served as a break between Spanish and English territory.
  3. 7. One who owes money to their country or country’s government
  4. 9. multiple people in one place with different ethnic or religious background
  5. 12. The act of settling on an uncharted area to be connected to a mother country
  6. 13. Musgrove: A mixed Native American-English woman who worked as a translator for Chief Tomochichi and James Edward Oglethorpe.
  7. 14. Colony: A colony which King George signed a document allowing the colonists to govern the government with minimal interference from England and the English government
  8. 17. of 1732: The official document which proclaimed Georgia an official colony of Great Britain
  9. 18. Tomochichi: The chief of the Yamacraw Indians during the time that James Edward Oglethorpe and the Trustees came to Georgia. He played an important role in the creation of Savannah by teaching and treating the English kindly.
  10. 19. Helpfulness to the less fortunate in ways of giving them new opportunities like moving to the colony of Georgia.
  11. 20. The force of labor to produce crops in Georgia of African people.
Down
  1. 1. A group of people dedicated to protecting against an enemy such as Spain.
  2. 3. People dissatisfied with the existing circumstances of government or leadership in colonial Georgia. These things include, slavery, land limitations, and rum.
  3. 4. Austrians from Germany who were seeking freedom from religious prosecution and were vital in farming and silk making in early colonial Georgia.
  4. 5. Scots: Soldiers from Northern Scotland recruited by James Edward Oglethorpe to protect Georgia from the Spanish.
  5. 8. & Services: Items or labor tasks that can be sold or traded for other goods or services
  6. 10. Production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services that allow the area to have enough money to support themselves and their people
  7. 11. Helping other people by giving them new opportunities.
  8. 15. Colony: A colony which King George had complete control over through an appointed leader.
  9. 16. The act of living in an uncharted territory in order to colonize it