1. Georgia Studies Vocabulary
Week 22

2. 1) loyalist
a person who remained loyal to the British during the American revolution; Tory.

3. 2) patriot
a person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interests with devotion.

4. 3) Elijah Clark
Led a rebel militia group in defeating more than 800 British troops at the Battle of Kettle Creek (Clark County)

5. 4) Austin Dabney
Revolutionary war hero; wounded in action at Kettle Creek; freeborn mulatto

6. 5) Nancy Hart
Her quick thinking allowed her to shoot at least one Tory and help capture the rest of a group that had killed her neighbor Colonel John Dooley (Hart County and the city of Hartwell)

7. 6) Button Gwinnett
One of the Georgia signers of the Declaration of Independence (Gwinnett County)

8. 7) Lyman Hall
One of the Georgia signers of the Declaration of Independence (Hall County)

9. 8) George Walton
The youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence.(Walton County)

10. 9) Count Casimir Pulaski
A foreign patriot that gave his life in the siege of Savannah (Pulaski County)

11. 10) unicameral
consisting of a single chamber, as a legislative assembly.