Building Vocabulary: Georgia as a Colony

The branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth.

• Charity

• Mary Musgrove

• Economics

• Charter of 1732

A person who is dissatisfied, rebellious, and likely to complain to make trouble.(The Georgia colonists who were unhappy with the trustee’s)

• Malcontent

• Defense

• Salzburgers

• Colonization

A place, typically uninhabited, where people set up a community

• Settlement

• Royal colony

• Charter colony

• Buffer colony

Including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds.

• Charter colony

• James Oglethorpe

• Buffer colony

• Diverse

A person that owes a sum of money

• Charity

• Debtor

• Philanthropy

• Malcontent

The only trustee who came to Georgia and founded Georgia.

• Chief Tomochichi

• King George

• James Oglethorpe

• Mary Musgrove

The action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.

• Debtor

• Colonization

• Slavery

• Defense

The desire to promote the welfare of others.

• Colony

• Charity

• Slavery

• Philanthropy

Head of the Yamacraw Indians and helped James Oglethorpe.

• Highland Scots

• King George

• Mary Musgrove

• Chief Tomochichi

Resistance against attack; protection.

• James Oglethorpe

• Slavery

• Defense

• Buffer colony