Q 01/05

Which profession was banned from Georgia Colony by the London Trustees who governed it from 1732 to 1752?

A) Physicians

B) Lawyers

C) Bankers

D) Tavern keepers

Answer · why

B) Lawyers

Lawyers were shut out by the Trustees, who ran Georgia from London for two decades without ever placing a governor in the colony itself.

Q 02/05

Georgia's 1732 charter granted a strip of land between two rivers stretching west as far as which body of water?

A) The Gulf of Mexico

B) The Mississippi River

C) The Pacific Ocean

D) The Great Lakes

Answer · why

C) The Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean was the western limit on paper, written in the charter as the south seas. Georgia kept its western claims until 1802, when it ceded ...

Q 03/05

Georgia Colony was named in honor of which British king, who granted its founding charter in 1732?

A) George I

B) James II

C) George III

D) George II

Answer · why

D) George II

George II gave his name to the last of the Thirteen Colonies, the first new one the government had approved in more than five decades.

Q 04/05

James Oglethorpe first pictured Georgia as a fresh start for which group crowding London's prisons in the 1720s?

A) Debtors

B) Smugglers

C) Highwaymen

D) Pickpockets

Answer · why

A) Debtors

Debtors inspired the plan, yet not one formerly jailed debtor was among the first colonists. The Trustees chose carpenters, tailors, bakers and farmer...

Q 05/05

Which drink did Georgia's Trustees outlaw in 1735 at Oglethorpe's urging, only to make it legal again in 1742?

A) Cider

B) Beer

C) Rum

D) Wine

Answer · why

C) Rum

Rum was the target, and the Trustees even tried to stop boats carrying it along the Savannah River, over loud protests from the neighbouring colony.