Chapter 5

Question 0

George Washington

Answer 0

Created fort necessity and delivered messages from British colonies to French colonies

Question 1

Apprentice

Answer 1

Person sent away to learn a particular skill from a master craftsman

Question 2

Henry Ellis

Answer 2

While royal governor, economy flourished, crackers arrived, land grants were offered, and more slaves were used

Question 3

James Wright

Answer 3

More schools established, finished defenses around Savannah, Sunbury official port of entry

Question 4

Noble Wimberly Jones

Answer 4

Tried to end Georgia assembly, outspoken leader of discontented Georgians

Question 5

Lyman Hall

Answer 5

Chosen to go to Philadelphia to sign the Declaration of Independence in the name of Georgia

Question 6

French and Indian war

Answer 6

1754 Result of disputes between France and Britain going on for 65 years (9 year war)

Question 7

Thomas Paine

Answer 7

Wrote pamphlet to urge colonists to go against Great Britain “common sense”

Question 8

Kettle Creek

Answer 8

Eight miles from Washington, Georgia

Question 10

Elijah Clarke

Answer 10

Took Augusta in the name of Great Britain

Question 11

Puritans

Answer 11

Group of Christians who broke away from the Church of England because of religious differences

Question 12

Parish

Answer 12

District where the government is run by the church

Question 13

Independence

Answer 13

Political or economic freedom

Question 14

John Treutlen

Answer 14

Georgia’s first governor

Question 16

Proprietary colony

Answer 16

Colony governed by board of trustees

Question 17

Royal colony

Answer 17

Colony run by monarch of home country

Question 18

George Walton

Answer 18

Signed the Declaration of Independence

Question 18

Button Gwinnett

Answer 18

Signed Declaration of Independence

Question 19

Townshend Act

Answer 19

1767 placed imported tax on tea paper glass and coloring for paints

Question 20

Palisade

Answer 20

Fence made of sharpened stakes

Question 21

Tories

Answer 21

People loyal to the king of England, George III

Question 22

Sugar Act

Answer 22

Placed a tax on sugar and molasses imported from the West Indies

Question 23

Austin Dabney

Answer 23

Mulatto patriot soldier

Question 24

Liberty Boys

Answer 24

Group of Georgians opposed to the stamp Act of 1765

Question 26

Siege

Answer 26

Force capturing a fort or town by surrounding it and preventing supplies from reaching it

Question 27

Boycott

Answer 27

Protest in which people refuse to buy certain items until specific conditions are met

Question 28

Treaty of Paris

Answer 28

Treaty signed in 1783 by Great Britain, France, and the united states that ended the American Revolution

Question 29

John Reynolds

Answer 29

Naval Captian that introduced self government in Georgia when he became Georgia’s first royal governor

Question 29

Patriot

Answer 29

Person who wanted to cut the ties with their colonizing country

Question 31

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 31

Moved Georgia’s southern border to the st. Mary’s River and forbade settling past Appalachian Mountains made by king George III after Treaty of Paris

Question 31

Crackers

Answer 31

Settlers from Virginia and the Carolinas moved to western Georgia colony

Question 33

Quartering Act

Answer 33

Legislation passed by the British Parliament that required the colonists to feed and house British soldiers at their own expense; part of the Intolerable Act

Question 34

Second continental congress

Answer 34

A meeting of the colonists in 1775 to discuss the increasing tensions between the British crown and the colonists; eventually the delegates issued the Declaration of Independence

Question 35

Declaration of Independence

Answer 35

Document issued by the second Continental Congress by which the delegate stated their intention to be free of British rule

Question 36

Stamp Act

Answer 36

1765 placed a tax on newspapers legal documents and licenses

Question 36

Ratify

Answer 36

Approve

Question 36

Articles of Confederation

Answer 36

First constitution of the USA