Quizlet History Test

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  1. 1759 Govenor Ellis: gets ill
  2. 1760: James Wright becomes GA new governor
  3. bicameral: two chamber legislature set up to represent the eight parishes of the colony
  4. Boston Tea Party: dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Bay
  5. Common House: lower house of legislature
  6. Continental Congress: 1 group wanted to pullaway from Great Britian and seek independenance the 2nd group wanted to make changes but still remain under British rule
  7. crackers: undesirable people
  8. effigy: a likeness
  9. ellis event: he is in the F&I war too
  10. Ellis in 1760: gets reasigned as governor to Nova Scotia
  11. Ellis occupation: naturalist and scientist who lead voyags to different parts of the world
  12. French and Indian War: France and Great Britain
  13. French and Indian War: 9 years... 1754-1763
  14. GA new governor in Feb. 1757: Captin Hennry Ellis
  15. Gov. Reynolds: had a disagrement with the Govenors Coucil so he tried to govern GA by himself
  16. Gov. Reynolds started: on October 1, 1754
  17. Governer's Council: the upper house of legislature
  18. Governor Dinnwiddie: Virginia's Governor
  19. Governor Reynolds: set up a court system
  20. independence: political or economic freedom
  21. intolerable act 1: the British closed the port of Boston until citizens of Massachusetts paid for tea
  22. intolerable act 2: colonists couln't have a town meating without the agreement of their governor
  23. intolerable act 3: court system was changed so any that any british official who committed capital crimes would be tried in Great Britain
  24. intolerable act 4: as final punishment Parlimant passed the Quartering act
  25. Intolerable acts: were to punish the colonists of Massachusetts for the Patriots
  26. Liberty boys: group of georgians that cam together to to oppose the Stamp Act
  27. lieutenant governor: James Wright
  28. men selected for the upper class: where wealthy and influential landowners
  29. Navy Captin, John Reynolds: first royal governor
  30. noble Jones: outspoken leader of the discontent georgians
  31. palisades: fence made of sharpened stakes
  32. parish: both a church and a British government district
  33. Proclamation of 1763: moved the state's southern boundary to the St. Marys River
  34. proprietary colony: colony that was goverened by a board of trustees
  35. Quartering act: the citizens of all the colonies had to house and feed British soldiers at their own expense
  36. Reynolds event: French and Indian War
  37. royal colony: colony directly governed by the king
  38. stamp act: placed a tax on newspaper, documents, and licenses
  39. sugar act: placing tax on sugar molasses imported from west indies
  40. the older georgians called themselves: Liberty Brawlers
  41. Townshend Acts: placed a tax on tea, paper, glass, and coloring paints