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GEORGIA STUDIES VOCABULARY Week 10

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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 Presentation

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GEORGIA STUDIES VOCABULARY

Week 10

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1) BAIL

Security given for temporary release from prison

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2) CRIME

An act of breaking the law

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3) EVIDENCE

Proof concerning a case presented at a trial

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4) AFFIDAVIT

A sworn statement under oath

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5) PLEA

The defendant’s response to being accused of a crime

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6) APPEAL

A request to review a case in a higher court

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7) SUSPECT

A person thought by police to be involved in a crime

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8) FINE

A sum of money a defendant is ordered to pay

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9) SENTENCE

The punishment for a person found guilty of a crime

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10) TESTIMONY

A statement made by a witness under oath

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VOCABULARY

Week 11

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1) ARCHEOLOGISTS

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

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2) ARTIFACTS

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

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3) SHALE

Layered rock that can encase ancient animals or birds

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4) ICE AGE

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

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5) GLACIERS

large, slow moving sheets of ice

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6) PALEO

from Greek, “Very Old”

Also called Old Stone Age

10,000-8000 BCE

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7) MEGAFAUNA

Large mammals like mammoths and mastodons

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8) ARCHAIC

Old

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9) MIDDENS

Trash heap

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10)ANTHROPOLOGIST

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

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VOCABULARY

Week 12

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1) CONQUISTADORS

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

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2) COLONY

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

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3) MISSIONARIES

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

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4) TRAPPERS

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

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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.

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6) PRESIDIOS

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

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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.

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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.

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9) CONFEDERACY

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

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10) CLAN

A group of people with a common ancestor

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VOCABULARY

Week 13

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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

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2) GUALE CHIEFDOM

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

Spoke the Muskogee language

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3) FRIARS

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

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4) MASS

In the Roman Catholic Church the celebration of Eucharist

Eucharist is communion

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5) FRIARY

A place where a friar or friars live.

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6) FRANCISCAN

An order of friars that was founded by St. Francis

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7) REPARTIMIENTO

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

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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

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9) PIRATE

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

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10) KINSHIP

the state or fact of being of kin; family relationship

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VOCABULARY

Week 14

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1) DEBT

Something that is owed

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2) DEBTOR

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

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3) CHARTER

A legal document that grants special rights and privileges

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4) TRUSTEES

People who hold responsibility on behalf of others

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5) HUMANITARIAN

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

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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

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7) CULTIVATING

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

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8) MILITIA

Citizen army

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9) TYTHINGS

A block on a square; ten houses

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10) WARD

Four blocks

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VOCABULARY

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1) SALZBURGERS

A group of German speaking protestant colonists.

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2) MORAVIANS

Protestants who trace their origins to ancient Bohemia

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3) PROTESTANTS

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

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4) HIGHLAND SCOTS

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

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5) MALCONTENTS

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

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6) NON SIBI SED ALLIS

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

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7) PROPRIETARY COLONY

One that was governed by a board of trustees

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8) ROYAL COLONY

One directly governed by the king

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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

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10) PARISH

A church and a British government district

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VOCABULARYWHOSE WHO

Week 16

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1) JAMES OGLETHORPE

Credited with founding Georgia; resident trustee

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2) TOMOCHICHI

Yamacraw chief; granted Oglethorpe the land for Savannah

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3) MARY MUSGROVE

Served as interpreter for Tomochichi and Oglethorpe

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4) JOHN MARTIN BOZIUS

Leader of the Salzburgers

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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.

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6) HENRY PARKER

Replaced Stephens; died after 1 year

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7) PATRICK GRAHAM

President of Georgia from 1752 until 1754

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8) JOHN REYNOLDS

First royal governor; introduced the idea of self government

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9) HENRY ELLIS

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

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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