GA Studies Bingo: Prehistory - American Revolution

1. GA Studies Bingo: Prehistory - American Revolution

2. GA’s Early History BINGO 1 6 11 16 21 2 7 12 17 22 3 8 13 18 23 4 9 14 19 24 5 10 15 20

3. This prehistoric period is: 1 • Dates • 10,000-8,000 B.C. • Weapons • “Clovis” points • Stone spear points • Knives and scrapers • Atlatl – used to propel spears long distances • Food • Large game hunted animals • Mammoths, bisons, ground sloths, and mastadons • Wild berries and nuts gathered • Dwellings • Lived in groups of 25-50 • Always on the move for food = no permanent housing • Slept in caves, under cliffs, and dug out “sleeping pits” • Religion • Artifacts to suggest general spirituality – nothing specific Check Your Answer

4. 1 Answer: Paleo Back to the Game Board

5. 2 In the late 1500’s, the Spanish founded several of these along the coast of Georgia. One, in particular, was called “Guale” – it is now referred to St. Catherine’s Island. Their main purpose was to convert natives to the Catholic faith, but they also hoped to make the Indians adopt the Spanish language and culture, trade with them, and have men of a certain age serve as Spanish soldiers. They eventually disappear from the GA coast due to Indian-led revolts, Indians moving back into the interior of GA away from the Spanish, and pirate attacks (from other European countries) along the coast. Check Your Answer

6. 2 Answer: SPANISH MISSIONS Back to the Game Board

7. 3 This Spanish explorer is given credit for being the first European to travel throughout GA. He came in search of gold and riches, and his mission was considered a failure because he was unable to locate these. The expedition resulted in the death of thousands of Native Americans from violence and disease. Check Your Answer

8. 3 Answer: Hernando de soto Back to the Game Board

9. 4 One of these groups remained loyal to Great Britain during the American Revolution and one was ready to cut ties with Great Britain. GA being such a young baby colony had more loyalists than patriots and we were hesitant about breaking off from “Momma England.” Check Your Answer

10. 4 Answer: loyalists and patriots Back to the Game Board

11. 5 This royal decree, created by King George I after the French and Indian War, created a line that forbade colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains. It also moved GA’s southern boundary south to the St. Mary’s River, and Cherokees and Creeks gave up all their lands between the Ogeechee and Savannah Rivers. The new boundaries were important to GA’s growth because a lot of new land was freed up for white settlers to have – although they couldn’t head west past the Appalachian Mtns. Check Your Answer

12. 5 Answer: The Proclamation of 1763 Back to the GameBoard

13. 6 This was state’s first city and capital. Located along the Savannah River near coastal GA. Check Your Answer

14. 6 Answer: Savannah Back to the Game Board

15. 7 This prehistoric period: • Dates • 8,000 – 1,000 B.C. • Weapons • New tools invented to save time and effort • Clovis points become smaller and sharper • Grooved Axe – stone head w/ wood handle. Used primarily to chop wood / remove brush • Food • Hunted smaller game as period progresses • Deer, bear, turkey, rabbit, birds, fish • Fishing and gathering important • Large remains of middens (trash heaps of shells ) found on Stallings Island in GA • Clay pots to store and transport food in created • Dwellings • Small groups gathered to form larger groups of 50-100 • Would move from season to season • Semi-permanent housing w/ wooden poles covered by animal hides, braches, and bark • Religion • Proper burial of the dead seems to be important • Tools, weapons, and ornaments found in tombs Check Your Answer

16. 7 Answer:Archaic Back to the Game Board

17. 8 These items / people were prohibited from the new Georgia colony because it was thought that they would either make the colonists lazy or that they would try to start a revolt against the British colony. Check Your Answer

18. 8 Answer: Slavery, alcohol, Catholics, and blacks Back to the Game Board

19. 9 Most European countries came to the New World for Gold, God, and Glory. Check Your Answer

20. 9 Answer: REASONS for exploration Back to the Game Board

21. 10 This lady was a major figure of the American Revolution. She held several British soldiers up after they broke into her home in Elberton, Georgia, and she went on to serve as a female spy for the US during the American Revolution. Check Your Answer

22. 10 Answer: Nancy hart Back to the Game Board

23. 11 This group of colonists were not happy about the trustees’ rules and regulation in the GA colony. They thought they should be allowed unlimited land and slaves in order to be more prosperous like the South Carolina and Virginia colonies. Check Your Answer

24. 11 Answer: Malcontents Back to the Game Board

25. This prehistoric period is: 12 • Dwellings • More sturdy houses as small groups join together and form tribes • Flat-topped mounds for gathering/ceremonies • Animal effigy mounds – Rock Eagle created in 200 A.D. • Religion • Burial mounds with more elaborate tombs containing jewelry, pottery, figurines, and ceremonial objects • Dates • 1,000 B.C. – 1,000 A.D. • Weapons • Bow and Arrow – better accuracy/saves time • Arrowheads become smaller and sharper • Food • Beginning of Horticulture • Seeds are saved for planting • Nuts, corn, squash, and bottle-gourd • Small game hunted Check Your Answer

26. 12 Answer: Woodland Back to the Game Board

27. 13 This man is given credit for being the founder of the GA colony. He had a desire to create a colony for debtors, since a close friend of his had died in one in England. He and 20 other trustees were also granted this, which gave them permission to settle England’s 13th British colony in America. This document explained what the trustees could and could not do – for ex., the trustees could not pass laws without the kings approval. Check Your Answer

28. 13 Answer: Answer: James Oglethorpe and the charter of 1732 Back to the Game Board

29. 14 I “C.E.D”…the three reasons for the founding of the GA colony are: Check Your Answer

30. 14 Answer: Charity, economics, and defense Back to the Game Board

31. 15 This Creek chief of the Yamacraw Indians gave Oglethorpe and the 1st colonists land at Yamacraw Bluff on which to settle. This lady, half white/half Creek, served as their translator so they could understand one another. Check Your Answer

32. 15 Answer: Chief Tomochichi and mary musgrove Back to the Game Board

33. 16 This battle happened in GA in Oct. 1779 during the American Revolution. This battle occurred after the British had taken over Savannah a year earlier, thus causing French and American forces to lay siege to the city by surrounding it and preventing any supplies from getting to the British. The American/French forces were horribly beaten and the city of Savannah would stay in British hands for the next 3 ½ years of the war. Check Your Answer

34. 16 Answer: Siege of savannah Back to the Game Board

35. 17 This prehistoric period is: • Dwellings • Large-scale communities w/ palisades and moats • Several 1,000 families living together • Wattle and daub houses made of clay and wood • Mound communities like Etowah and Ocmulgee • Religion • Priest-chief presides over religious ceremonies • Religious aspects controlled by govt. • Dates • 1,000 A.D. – 1,600 A.D. • Weapons • All tools and weapons from previous periods – only better-made and more effective • Food • Grew most food • Corn, beans, pumpkin, and squash • Used slash-and-burn technique • Stored food in storehouses for constant supply Check Your Answer

36. 17 Answer: Mississippian Back to the Game Board

37. 18 These two groups of colonists came to GA during the trustee years. One escaped religious persecution in Germany and settled New Ebenezer (in GA) and was prosperous growing rice. The other group was brought over because of their reputation of being good soldiers. They settled Darien, GA. Check Your Answer

38. 18 Answer: salzburgers and highland scots Back to the Game Board

39. 19 This war, also called the Seven Years War, was fought between the French and their many Indian allies and the British and their few Indian allies. Although GA did not participate in this war, it did benefit from it by gaining new land, new water access for shipping, and rich forests. When the British won, they were left with enormous war debts, and they had to tax the American colonists to cover those expenses. Check Your Answer

40. 19 Answer: The french and indian war Back to the Game Board

41. 20 This SUPER IMPORTANT document in US History declared that all men are created equal with a right to life, liberty, and happiness. It said the American colonies were now the United States of America, and the document gave reasons that led them to declare their independence. Check Your Answer

42. 20 Answer: declaration of independence Back to the Game Board

43. 21 These two men fought in the Battle of Kettle Creek (in GA) during the American Revolution, and they were distinguished as heroes. The first was given land in GA after the war, and the other led the American forces to their only win against Great Britain in GA at the Battle of Kettle Creek. Check Your Answer

44. 21 Answer: Austin dabney and elijah clarke Back to the Game Board

45. 22 These three men signed the Declaration of Independence for GA. Check Your Answer

46. 22 Answer: Button Gwinnett, lyman hall, and george walton Back to the Game Board

47. 23 These were two tax acts passed before the American Revolution. The 1st term was the 1st tax act passed in America at this time and GA was the only colony to actually pay it (WE WERE SO LOYAL!), and the other occurred after the Boston Tea Party and led to the closing of the port of Boston and the Quartering Act. Check Your Answer

48. 23 Answer: Stamp Act and intolerable acts Back to the Game Board

49. 24 The GA colony changed from a proprietary (trustee) colony to a royal colony in 1752. During the two years before royal governor John Reynolds was appointed, some of the people who left GA while it was a trustee colony began to return. In 1752, Puritans from SC bought 32,000 acres at Midway, GA and settled there with their slaves and farmed rice and indigo. A port was build nearby at Sunbury so the planters could ship their crops from a closer port than Savannah. Under the GA’s three royal governors, GA prospered. Self-government was allowed and a bi-cameral legislature was created, a court system was set up, more farms (and profitable farms at that) were established, rice and indigo became our top-selling crops, and somewhat undesirable “crackers” settled in the backcountry. Check Your Answer

50. 24 Answer: Impact of the royal governors Royal governors – John “call off the Commons House of Assembly (the legislature)” Reynolds; Henry “Sickly” Ellis; and “Loyal-to-the-end” James Wright. Back to the Game Board