Vocaubulary Chapter 4th
Terms
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- Mercantilism
- a trade policy where a country exports more that it imports and colonies supply raw materials to the mother country
- Slave
- a person who spends his or her life in forced work for others as their property
- Savannah
- the first city in Georgia where Europeans landed and started a new home
- Highland Scots
- a group of colonists from Scotland who settled in Darien and helped to protect Georgia from the Spanish to to south
- Colony
- a territory that is ruled by another contry
- malcontent
- an unhappy person who actively opposes the established government
- Tomochichi
- chief of the Yamacraw Indians who made friends with Oglethrope
- Salzburgers
- a group of colonistst from Salzburg,Germany who camer for religious freedom
- indigo
- a plant used to make blue dyes
- Fort King George
- England's garrison at the mouth of the Altamaha River(1721) at Darien; this helped the English protect the colonies from the French & Spanish
- Conquistador
- One who conquers: the Spanish conquerors of the Americans
- James Oglethrope
- founder of Georgia for 21 years- along with 20 other trustees
- Ann
- the Ship that brought the settlers to Georgia from England
- Cornucopia
- a symbol of abudance, especially food; horn of plently
- Trustee
- A person who holds responsibility on behalf of another person
- Inderntured servant
- a person who agrees to work for someone for a set period of time in exchange for passage to the New World
- John and Charles Wesley
- brothers who started the 1st Sunday School in American; founders of the Methodist Church
- Spanish Mission
- a group of people send from Spain to conver "natives" to Christianity
- Mary Musgrove
- served as and interpreter between Oglethorpe and Tomochichi(part Native American and British)
- Hernando DeSoto
- Spanish explorer; the first European to explore Georgia (1540)