georgia studies vocabulary

GEORGIA STUDIES VOCABULARY

Week 10

1) BAIL

Security given for temporary release from prison

2) CRIME

An act of breaking the law

3) EVIDENCE

Proof concerning a case presented at a trial

4) AFFIDAVIT

A sworn statement under oath

5) PLEA

The defendant’s response to being accused of a crime

6) APPEAL

A request to review a case in a higher court

7) SUSPECT

A person thought by police to be involved in a crime

8) FINE

A sum of money a defendant is ordered to pay

9) SENTENCE

The punishment for a person found guilty of a crime

10) TESTIMONY

A statement made by a witness under oath

VOCABULARY

Week 11

1) ARCHEOLOGISTS

dig into earth to find artifacts that tell us about early inhabitants

2) ARTIFACTS

Pottery pieces, weapons, tools, jewelry, or other items made by people

3) SHALE

Layered rock that can encase ancient animals or birds

4) ICE AGE

a period of time in which temperatures on earth were very cold, and North America was covered by glaciers.

5) GLACIERS

large, slow moving sheets of ice

6) PALEO

from Greek, “Very Old”

Also called Old Stone Age

10,000-8000 BCE

7) MEGAFAUNA

Large mammals like mammoths and mastodons

8) ARCHAIC

Old

9) MIDDENS

Trash heap

10)ANTHROPOLOGIST

A person who uses artifacts, cave drawings, well-traveled pathways, and oral history to study the cultures of a group

VOCABULARY

Week 12

1) CONQUISTADORS

Spanish soldier – explorers, especially those who conquered the native people of Mexico and Peru

2) COLONY

A new settlement or territory established and governed by a country in another land

3) MISSIONARIES

People who travel to a territory or community in order to make converts to their religion

4) TRAPPERS

Adventurers who capture and kill animals, such as beavers, for their fur

5) COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE

The transfer of people, plants, animals and diseases back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean triggered by the voyages of Christopher Columbus.

6) PRESIDIOS

Spanish walled forts where small bands of soldiers lived in order to protect Spain’s claim to an area.

7) PONCE DE LÉON

Spanish explorer who had sailed with Columbus. Set off to find the fountain of youth. Landed on La Florida in April 1513. Returned 8 years later with 200 men to establish a Spanish colony.

8) JACQUES CARTIER

In 1534, explored the Atlantic coastline of North America. He was looking for a Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean. Claimed what is today Canada for France.

9) CONFEDERACY

A group of people who band together for political or military strength

10) CLAN

A group of people with a common ancestor

VOCABULARY

Week 13

1) MOCAMA CHIEFDOM

Translates to “saltwater people”

Occupied the area south of the Altamaha River and into areas of what is now North Florida

Spoke Timucua

2) GUALE CHIEFDOM

Occupied the coast from the Ogechee river south to St. Simons Island

Spoke the Muskogee language

3) FRIARS

A male member of the Roman Catholic Church who has dedicated his life to the service of the church, lives on donations

4) MASS

In the Roman Catholic Church the celebration of Eucharist

Eucharist is communion

5) FRIARY

A place where a friar or friars live.

6) FRANCISCAN

An order of friars that was founded by St. Francis

7) REPARTIMIENTO

in colonial Spanish America, a system by which the crown allowed certain colonists to recruit Indians for forced labour.

8) YAMASEE INDIANS

The Yamasee were a multiethnic confederation of Native Americans who lived in the coastal region of present-day northern coastal Georgia near the Savannah River and later in northeastern Florida

9) PIRATE

a person who robs or commits illegal violence at sea or on the shores of the sea

10) KINSHIP

the state or fact of being of kin; family relationship

VOCABULARY

Week 14

1) DEBT

Something that is owed

2) DEBTOR

a person who is in debt or under financial obligation to another

3) CHARTER

A legal document that grants special rights and privileges

4) TRUSTEES

People who hold responsibility on behalf of others

5) HUMANITARIAN

having concern for or helping to improve the welfare and happiness of people.

6) INDENTURED SERVANTS

a person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time, usually seven years

7) CULTIVATING

to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops

8) MILITIA

Citizen army

9) TYTHINGS

A block on a square; ten houses

10) WARD

Four blocks

VOCABULARY

Week 15

1) SALZBURGERS

A group of German speaking protestant colonists.

2) MORAVIANS

Protestants who trace their origins to ancient Bohemia

3) PROTESTANTS

Any western Christian who is not a member of the Catholic, Anglican or Eastern Church.

4) HIGHLAND SCOTS

A settler in early Georgia from one of the mountainous regions of Scotland.

5) MALCONTENTS

Not content with currently prevailing conditions or circumstances; dissatisfied with the existing government.

6) NON SIBI SED ALLIS

Latin for “Not for themselves but for others.” The Georgia state motto

7) PROPRIETARY COLONY

One that was governed by a board of trustees

8) ROYAL COLONY

One directly governed by the king

9) PURITANS

A member of a group of Protestants that arose in the 16th century within the Church of England demanding the simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater strictness in religious discipline

10) PARISH

A church and a British government district

VOCABULARYWHOSE WHO

Week 16

1) JAMES OGLETHORPE

Credited with founding Georgia; resident trustee

2) TOMOCHICHI

Yamacraw chief; granted Oglethorpe the land for Savannah

3) MARY MUSGROVE

Served as interpreter for Tomochichi and Oglethorpe

4) JOHN MARTIN BOZIUS

Leader of the Salzburgers

5) WILLIAM STEPHENS

Named president of the Georgia colony after Oglethorpe returned to Great Britain; allowed rum to be sold; legalized slavery; allowed settlers to own more than 500 acres; retired in 1751.

6) HENRY PARKER

Replaced Stephens; died after 1 year

7) PATRICK GRAHAM

President of Georgia from 1752 until 1754

8) JOHN REYNOLDS

First royal governor; introduced the idea of self government

9) HENRY ELLIS

Second royal governor; popular governor under which Georgia grew in population and economically

10) JAMES WRIGHT

Third royal governor; born in Charleston and educated in Great Britain; land ownership increased; rice and indigo became profitable; increase in the “cracker” population