UGA History Q&A Bundle

Fall Line - the point on a river where there is an abrupt drop in elevation of the land and where numerous waterfalls occur. - it is the ancient coastline of the southern tier of North America when sea-levels wer higher - Navigation up-stream beyond this feature stops - ultimately towns located just...

He was a spanish explorer who marched across Mexico and conquered the Aztecs Hernan Cortes He explored deep in USA, first to discover and cross the Mississippi River and claim it for Spain Hernando de Soto This man was a member of the English Parliament who founded the colony of Georgia. James Edw...

Robert Smalls Enslaved African American who, during and after the American Civil War, became a ship's pilot, sea captain, and politician; freed himself, his crew and their families from slavery on May 13, 1862, by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, the CSS Planter, in Charleston harbor, ...

James Oglethorpe Founding Trustee and Governor of the Georgia colony 1733 Opposed slavery and respected GA Indian customs Mary Musgrove Served as an interpreter between Oglethorpe and Tomochichi (she was part Native American and part British) Tomochichi Chief of the Yamacraw who gave James Ogletho...

James Edward Oglethorpe The leader of English Parliament who founded the Georgia colony, in order to create an effective buffer from the Spanish and Spanish controlled Florida. James Wright Georgia's third, and final, royal governor who fled the colony when the American Revolution began Nancy M...