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Georgia Studies Vocabulary

Georgia Studies Vocabulary. Week 22. 1) loyalist. a person who remained loyal to the British during the American revolution; Tory. . 2) patriot. a person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interests with devotion. . 3) Elijah Clark.

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Georgia Studies Vocabulary

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  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.

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