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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. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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