Chapter 4 Vocab: Settlement
Chapter 4: Settlement
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- 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 the south
- trustee
- a person who holds responsibility on behalf of another person
- Tomochichi
- chief of the Yamacraw Indians who made friends with Oglethorpe
- Spanish mission
- a group of people sent from Spain to convert the "natives" to Christianity
- indentured servant
- a person who agrees to work for someone for a set period of time in exchange for passage to the New World
- Hernando DeSoto
- Spanish explorer; the first European to explore Georgia (1540)
- Ann
- the ship that brought the settlers of Georgia from England (should be in italic letters)
- Mary Musgrove
- served as an interpreter between Oglethorpe and Tomochichi (she was part Native American and part British)
- malcontent
- an unhappy person who actively opposes the established government
- James Oglethorpe
- founder of Georgia for 21 years- along with 20 other trustees
- Salzburgers
- a group of colonists from Germany who came for religious freedom
- indigo
- a plant used to make blue dyes
- conquistador
- one who conqures; the Spanish conquerors of the Americas
- cornucopia
- a symbol of abundance, especially food; horn of plenty
- slave
- a person who spends his or her life in forced work for others as their property
- mercantilism
- a trade policy where a country exports more than it imports and colonies supply raw materials to the mother country
- colony
- a territory that is ruled by another country
- John and Charles Wesley
- brothers who started the first Sunday school in America; founders of the Methodist Church
- Fort King George
- England's garrison(military headquarters) at the mouth of the Altamaha River (1721) at Darien; this helped the English protect the colonies from the French and Spanish