Name: ______Cloze Reading/NOTESCh. 4 Section 4 pgs. 120-129; SS8H2-b & c
Building a New Home:
Colonists lived in ______as they prepared the land for planting and the timber to build permanent homes. Most settlers lived in the city and were ______(craftsmen). They weren’t used to doing hard labor. Even though Oglethorpe had limited power, he was accepted as the group’s ______. He made treaties with the Native Americans for land and created a ______(citizen army) to protect the colony. He worked with others to plan the city of ______. It was to have four squares, which were divided into blocks. Today Savannah has ______people living there, and 21 of the original 24 squares remain. Each settler was expected to care for his ______in Savannah, he 5-acre ______, and his ______acres of farm land in the country around Savannah. They planted ______trees to feed silkworms and many other buildings for daily use. The settlers were working even though there were many medical problems. Oglethorpe thought ______was making people sick, but more likely it was ______, dysentery, and ______caused by not having fresh ______, changes in the ______, poor ______, and hard physical ______. Forty settlers ______the first year.
The Arrival of New Colonists
In July of 1733, a ship brought 42 ______to Savannah’s harbor. Because ______were the only religion not allowed Oglethorpe let them stay. A new ______had arrived named Samuel Nunis. He helped Georgia make it through its first ______crisis. The next group to arrive in March of 1734 were the ______from Germany. They were kicked out of Germany because they were ______religion. Their leader was ______and they were asked to 25 miles away in a placed they called ______, which means “The Rock of ______.” They stayed to themselves because they ______. Because their land was marshy and had poor soil, the ______asked to move in 1736. They moved to Red Bluff. The called their new place ______. When the Salzburgers were settled, Oglethorpe went to Great Britain and took ______, his wife, his grandnephew, and five other members of the ______with him. The King and the Archbishop liked them and relationships were strengthened. Oglethorpe went back to Georgia with the full ______of the trustees. He carried ______new colonists with him in 1736. Included were more Salzburgers, a group named the ______(who were Protestants from Saxony, Germany) and two religious leaders named ______and ______Wesley. On his return, Oglethorpe set up three new regulations. Buying ______was to be against the law and ______could not be used in trading with the Native Americans. ______was not allowed because it would cause landowners to be idle (lazy) and want more land. ______with the Native Americans was to be watched very carefully.
Discontent among the Settlers
Oglethorpe’s new regulations were not ______. The rules began to ______the colonists. The mulberry trees were the ______kind for producing large amounts of silk. The were not able to grow ______, ______, or ______(a plant for blue dyes) or ______to make wine. The matter became worse because their neighbors ______who had slaves, rum, and land were doing well. The Georgians were jealous. In South Carolina, they were growing ______, rice, and cotton using slave labor. Both the Salzburgers and the ______were against slavery, but more and more people wanted ______. The trustees were becoming more and more disliked. Many Georgia settlers moved to places were they could live like they wanted. However, the problems were put aside because ______broke out between ______and Spain.
The Spanish Invasion
The war was called ______. Years earlier Spanish sailors had cut off the ______of a British sailor named ______to warn other British to stay away from Florida’s coast. Oglethorpe welcomed the war. It gave him good reason to invade ______. About 2,000 men organized and tried to take the major Spanish ______, particularly St. Augustine. However the ______militia met Oglethorpe with a ______attack on June 15, 1740. The ______won and the British had to retreat. During the next______years, there were attacks and ______between the Spanish and British______with neither gaining much. In 1742, Oglethorpe and the ______waited in the woods on St.SimonsIsland and the Spanish were caught by surprise and forced back over the border. The action was known as ______it was not very bloody or big. It did however mark the beginning of a safe border for the British. After a trick of Oglethorpe’s, the Spanish left the area for good.
The End of the Dream
In 1743, Oglethorpe was called to ______to answer to charges that he had not acted correctly. He was ______of the charges, but never returned to Georgia. ______the trustee’s secretary was named ______of the colony full of unhappy people. They had given up on no selling rum, but the people still wanted more ______and ______. By 1750 they allowed it. In 1752, one year before the charter was ending, all the ______returned home and gave Georgia to the authority of ______. A new time was beginning.
A Last Look at the Charter Colony
Few ______ever reached Georgia’s shores, and the colony was an ______failure. Rum was freely ______and slavery was introduced. By the end of the charter nearly ______of the population of 3, 000 were slaves. A large number of settlers were European ______who came to Georgia for religious freedom. A man named ______created the first orphanage in ______. The home was a place for children without parents to live. John and Charles Wesley created the first ______in American and went on to found the ______Church. By 1750, when colonists gained outright ownership of land even ______could inherit land. The survival stage set Georgia up to be a ______and ______Royal Colony.