Georgia History

What does Georgia’s 1732 date refer to, compared with Savannah’s 1733 date?

• Capital relocation before a railway opening
• Charter authorization before settlement
• Constitutional ratification before statehood
• Secession before Reconstruction

Which combination best describes the Georgia Trustees’ colonial goals?

• Only parliamentary representation
• Social, economic, and military aims
• Only religious independence from Britain
• Only gold extraction and mining

Why is describing Georgia only as a debtors’ colony incomplete?

• It dates settlement after the Civil War
• It confuses Georgia with a Pacific colony
• It overlooks other purposes and participants
• It places Georgia outside British control

What effect did disfranchisement have on Black Georgians?

• It removed every barrier to education
• It guaranteed equal wages
• It expanded land ownership automatically
• It restricted voting rights

What was Georgia’s relationship to the original thirteen colonies?

• It became a colony after U.S. independence
• It was the only colony on the Pacific
• It was part of Canada throughout colonial rule
• It was one of them

In what year was Georgia’s British colonial charter issued?

• 1788
• 1732
• 1632
• 1868

Who lived in present-day Georgia before British colonization?

• Only railway workers
• Indigenous societies
• Only Civil War soldiers
• Only British settlers

In what year did British colonists settle Savannah?

• 1633
• 1788
• 1733
• 1868