colonial vocab
Across
- 2. the spot where General James Edward Oglethorpe landed to settle the colony of Georgia.
- 4. granted the trustees the powers of a corporation; they could elect their own governing body, make land grants, and enact their own laws and taxes.
- 7. an assembly of the representatives of a political nation or people, often the supreme legislative authority
- 10. 1732–1752
- 11. a colony ruled or administered by officials appointed by and responsible to the reigning sovereign of the parent state.
- 13. the branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth
- 15. founder of georgia
- 16. Georgia's second royal governor
- 17. a group of settlers came to help defend Georgia from Spanish invaders and to make a new home for themselves
- 19. welfare of others
- 22. The man appointed by the King of England to govern a colony.
Down
- 1. Founded in 1733 by General James Edward Oglethorpe
- 3. a colony that serves as the 'cushion' or direct receiver of the actions of any violence or even prevent others from intrusion or attacking other colonies.
- 5. on St. Simons Island, General Oglethorpe's soldiers defeated Spanish forces
- 6. dutifully enforced the 1765 Stamp Act
- 8. leader of the Yamacraw Indians
- 9. a group of German-speaking Protestant refugees from the Catholic Archbishopric of Salzburg
- 12. a written grant by a country's legislative or sovereign power, by which a body such as a company, college, or city is founded and its rights and privileges defined.
- 14. interpretererpeter for james oglethorp
- 18. country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
- 20. created a bicameral (two houses) legislature and the creation of a court system.
- 21. objected to the Trustees' limits on landownership and prohibitions on slavery and rum.