1. Journal Entry # 1 Chapter 2 8/09/10 1. What does the term “physiographic region” mean? 2. Describe three features of the coastal plain. 3. Georgia’s coast is a region that consists of what? 4. Describe how the barrier islands were formed and name three of them.

2. Journal Entry # 2 Chapter 2 8/11/10 1. What type of rock is located in the Piedmont? 2. Name and describe one mountain in the Piedmont region. 3. What are the similarities and differences between the Piedmont region and the Blue Ridge region?

3. 1. Describe three facts about the Blue Ridge. 2. What is Georgia’s highest mountain? 3. Why does rain fall on average around 80 inches a year in the Blue Ridge? 4. Why are the mountains and valleys not suitable for agriculture? Journal Entry #3 Chapter 2 8/12/10

4. Journal Entry # 4 Chapter 2 8/13/10 1. Describe the soil and growing season in the Ridge and Valley 2. What are the similarities and differences between the Ridge and Valley region and the Appalachian Plateau region. 3. What is found in the Appalachian Plateau and no where else in the state? 4. How has Georgia’s climate aided in the population growth of the state?

5. Journal Entry # 5 8/16/10 1. Why did Europeans want to colonize Georgia? (32) 2. How is Georgia’s climate determined? (33) 3. Georgia is located in what hemisphere? (5) 4. What are the differences between primary and secondary sources? Give examples. (41)

6. Journal Entry # 6 9/7/10 1. Describe the motivation for Spain in conquering the Southeast (62). 2. Describe the motivation for colonization for France and who they sent to colonize the New World (65-66). 3. Describe both how the Spanish used missions to colonize the barrier islands and Juanillo’s rebellion (67-68). 4. Describe both the English motivation for colonization and mercantilism (69)?

7. Journal Entry # 7 Chapter 6 9/14/10 1. Describe Oglethorpe’s life prior to the colonization of Georgia. 2. What was the Charter of 1732? 3. Describe the main purposes of the Charter. 4. What is a trustee colony and what could the trustees not have in relation to the colony?

8. Journal Entry # 8 9/15/10 1. What was the official church of England and why did the colony of Georgia exclude Catholicism? 2. How did the trustees select who would go to Georgia? 3. What would the early colonists receive when they reached Georgia? 4. What was Georgia’s early boundary?

9. Journal Entry # 9 Chapter 6, pp. 82 and 84 9/16/10 1.Where did Oglethorpe go first when reaching the New World and why did he go to that place? 2. Who was Tomochichi and what did he do? 3. Explain Tomochichi’s death and burial. 4. What did John and Mary Musgrove do to help the colonists?

10. Journal Entry # 10 9/28/10 1. Where did the name Savannah come from? 2. How was the town of Savannah designed? 3. Describe the hardships endured by the colonists the first year and how they overcame those trials. 4. Describe the positives and the negatives about life in the colony based upon the article in the South Carolina Gazette.

11. Journal Entry # 11 Chapter 6 9/29/10 1. Describe the three complaints that the colonists had against the trustees and give detailed reasons for those complaints. 2. Why and who built the first fort in Georgia during the colonial period? 3. Explain the problem with the Indians in the backcountry of Georgia.

12. Journal Entry # 12 Chapter 6 10/01/10 1. Describe Oglethorpe’s role in the war with Spain. 2. What happened during the battle of bloody marsh? If this battle would have been won by Spain, what would have happened to the Georgia colony? 3. Why did the colony decline?