Georgia History Exam Study Guide.
Spanish missions - answer() Churches / forts set up by the Spanish on Georgia's
barrier islands to convert Native Americans to Christianity and to protect Spain's land claims in
North America.
Charter of 1732 - answer(1732) The document that formally establishe...
Spanish missions - answer✔✔(1568-1684) Churches / forts set up by the Spanish on Georgia's
barrier islands to convert Native Americans to Christianity and to protect Spain's land claims in
North America.
Charter of 1732 - answer✔✔(1732) The document that formally established the colony of
Georgia; outlines the reasons for Georgia's founding and the regulations set up by the trustees.
Trustee period - answer✔✔(1732-1751)- time period when Georgia was governed by the
trustees. The trustees created many regulations (rules), including a ban on slavery, liquor,
lawyers, and Catholics.
Charity, Defense, Economics - answer✔✔Three reasons for Georgia's founding.
Mercantilism - answer✔✔Economic policy focused on exporting more than importing; colonies
shipping raw materials (exports) to the mother country of England in exchange for finished
goods (imports).
Mulberry Trees - answer✔✔The Georgia colonists were required to set aside a portion of their
land to grow these trees.
Battle of Bloody Marsh - answer✔✔the decisive battle during the War of Jenkins Ear where the
Georgia colonists stopped a Spanish invasion of St. Simmons Island, thus ending the Spanish
threat from Florida.
French and Indian War - answer✔✔(1754-1763)- war between England and France for control
of North America. The English won the war and gained a large area of North America from the
French, but forced the American colonist to pay taxes to pay down the war debt, which became a
cause of the American Revolution.
English - answer✔✔Who won the French and Indian War?
Proclamation of 1763 - answer✔✔Royal proclamation that forbade English colonists from
settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Stamp Act - answer✔✔(1765)- a tax on all legal documents, newspapers, and other paper
products; one of the first direct taxes placed on the colonies by the British Government causing
much protest amongst the colonists.
Intolerable Acts??!? - answer✔✔(1774)- Acts the British Parliament designed to punish the
colonists for the Boston Tea Party; [1] closing Boston Harbor, [2] outlawing patriot groups and
town hall meetings; [3] trials in British courts; [4] Quartering Act (colonists required to house
and feed British soldiers)
Declaration of Independence - answer✔✔(1776)- Three part document that discusses natural
rights, explains the wrongs committed by King George, and offers an official declaration of
independence from England.
Georgia Constitution of 1777 - answer✔✔Georgia's first state constitution; established three
branches of government and basic liberties, though the executive and judicial branch had limited
powers.
Battle of Kettle Creek - answer✔✔(February 14, 1779)-Small Revolutionary War battle in
Georgia where patriot forces, led by Elijah Clarke, defeated 600 loyalist; one of the few patriot
victories in the state. (February 14, 1779)-Small Revolutionary War battle in Georgia where
patriot forces, led by Elijah Clarke, defeated 600 loyalist; one of the few patriot victories in the
state.
Siege of Savannah - answer✔✔(1779)- failed attempt by the French and Americans to recapture
Savannah during Revolutionary War.
Articles of Confederation - answer✔✔(1781)- The first written constitution of the United States
uniting colonies (states) together to fight against the British
Constitutional Convention - answer✔✔Meeting that took place in Philadelphia from May to
September 1787 to revise the Articles of Confederation, but was soon scrapped and a new and
improved constitution was written.
Unicameral Legislature - answer✔✔What type of legislature was set up under the Articles of
Confederation?
Bicameral Legislature - answer✔✔What type of legislature was set up in the Constitution?
Great Compromise - answer✔✔A compromise made between the large and small states during
the Constitutional Convention; allowed for a two house legislature with the number of senators
for each state being equal (2 per state) and the number of members of the House of
Representatives based on the state's population.
Virginia Plan - answer✔✔A plan proposed by delegates during the Constitutional Convention
that favored representation based on a state's population in the U.S. legislative branch. The larger
states liked this idea.
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