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Georgia. Who Am I ?. I explored the east and west coast of Florida and was given credit for discovering the Gulf Stream . Juan Ponce de Leon. Who Am I ???. I was a Spanish conquistador and the first to explore the southeast region of the United States.
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Who Am I ? • I explored the east and west coast of Florida and was given credit for discovering the Gulf Stream.
Who Am I ??? • I was a Spanish conquistador and the first to explore the southeast region of the United States. • I brought diseases to the Native Americans. • I also used the Native Americans as slaves and took some back to Spain.
Who Am I ??? • I am credited with being the oldest Spanish settlement in the United States. This settlement is located in Florida and is called St. Augustine.
Who Am I ??? • I was sent by the King of France to find a suitable place to establish a French colony. • I am famous for establishing a settlement for French Huguenots in the New World.
Who Am I ??? • I am responsible for creating a colony for debtors. • I established the colony of Georgia as a buffer state between the Carolinas and Spanish Florida.
Who Am I ??? • I became the first royal governor of Georgia from 1754-1757. • I established a governor, a council, and a legislature (that consisted of the Upper House of Assembly and the Commons House of Assembly. • I was not a popular governor. • I was removed and sent back to England. • Lieutenant Henry Ellis replaced me as governor.
Who Am I ??? • I was the royal governor in 1771 and tried to stop attempts to weaken ties with Great Britain. • I believed that English laws should be obeyed.
Who Am I ??? • We were the three delegates from Georgia that signed the Declaration of Independence.
I was the Commander of the Continental Army. • I knew the Hudson River was the “Key to the Continent” • I knew Great Britain wanted control of the Hudson. If Britain controlled the Hudson they would cut off our supplies. • I ordered a “Great Chain” to stretch across the river from West Point to Constitution Island.
Who Am I ??? • I am famous for writing the Declaration of Independence. • In 1803 as president of the United States I purchased the Louisiana Territory for $15,000,000.
Who Am I ??? • I saw that the “Whiteman” had advantages by using their “talking leaves”. • I developed the Cherokee alphabet that used 86 symbols to represent our Cherokee syllables.
Who AM I • I was a slave who served under Elijah Clarke during the Battle of Kettle Creek. • I was the only African American soldier to fight in the battle. • After the American Revolution, in recognition of my bravery, the state of Georgia gave me my freedom and awarded me 500 acres of land in 1786.
Who Am I ??? • During the 1880’s, we rose to the top of the Cherokee Nation. • One of us was a successful planter and businessman. • The other became chief of the Cherokee from 1827-1866
Who Am I ??? • Although I aided the whites in the War of 1812, I am infamous for selling the Creek land to the whites for $400,000. • As a result, the Creeks set fire to my plantation and murdered me.
Who Am I ??? • I did not agree with the Treaty of Augusta (it gave away 1,000,000 acres of Creek land to the whites). • I led the Upper Creeks in a war against the settlers in the backcountry (Augusta). • I was not at war with “ the whole American States, only the Georgians that had taken our hunting grounds”.
Who Am I ??? • I was chief of the Yamacraws (part of Creek Confederation) when the first settlers arrived at Yamacraw Bluff. • I aided the Whiteman called Oglethorpe in the Treaty of Savannah.
Who Am I ??? • I ran a trading post near Yamacraw Bluff. • My wife was the daughter of a white South Carolina trader and a Creek chief. • Both my wife and I aided Oglethorpe as translators at the Treaty of Savannah.
Who Are We ??? • We were the delegates from Georgia that ratified the Constitution.
Who Am I ??? • For a while I lived in Minnesota as a free citizen. • Later I was forced to return to Missouri where they did not recognize my free status. • I sued the state of Missouri and lost. • I appealed to the Supreme court. They ruled that since slaves were not considered citizens I could not sue in United Stated courts.
Who Am I ??? • I was a general for the north during the Civil War. • I was responsible for the taking of Atlanta. • Following the Battle of Atlanta I led the “March to Sea” where my army took Savannah and then turned northward to take south Carolina and on to North Carolina.
Who Am I ??? • I was a top student at West Point. • I really did not want to fight the Union. However, my loyalty belonged to Virginia. • I was put in command of the Confederate army by President Davis during the Civil War.
Who Am I ??? • I was a general for the Union army during the Civil War. • I won the first major victories of the war. • Later I was elected president of the United States.
Who Am I ??? • I was a general for the Confederate army during the Civil War. • My men referred to me as a stonewall. • I was fatally wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
Who Am I ??? • I was a spokesperson for the south. • Although I wasn’t the first choice, I became president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Who Am I ??? • I was president of the United States during the Civil War. • I am remembered for the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address. • I was assassinated at Ford's Theatre.
