Vocabulary Review H1/H2

garden cultivation; important to the Mississippian culture.

main crop grown by the American Indian living in Georgia before European exploration

the last major prehistoric Native American culture in Georgia; known for being large scale framers and mound builders who traded throughout North America.

walls built of a network of interwoven sticks and covered with mud or clay; used by early American Indian cultures and European settlers to build thier homes.

churches set up by the Spanish in hopes of converting Native Americans to Christianity.

Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition through the Southeastern United States; credited as being the first European in Georgia.

the document that formally established the colony of Georgia; outlines the reasons for Georgia’s founding and the regulations set up by the trustees.

someone who owed more money to someone/institution than they had.

one of the reasons for Georgia’s founding, to help protect South Carolina from Spanish Florida

one of the three reasons for Georgia’s founding. The English hoped that Georgia would beable to produce wine, rice, silk, and indigo.

one of the three reasons for Georgia’s founding. James Oglethorpe and the trustees hoped to bring debtors and England’s “worthy poor” to the colony to begin new lives.

as the Chief of the Yamacraw Indians who befriended James Oglethorpe and allowed the English to settle on his land.

one of the 21 members of the trustees who established Georgia; only trustee to come to the colony and served as the de facto military and governmental leader of the colony.

Creek Indian woman who served as the translator for James Oglethorpe and Yamacraw Chief Tomochichi.

- first planned city in the new world, oldest city in Georgia