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