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Answer very briefly the following questions according to Gallay's book. Answer briefly in sentences of your own words as much as possible.

SOME Answers do not need to be in complete sentences. Please type your brief answers using bold text.

According to Alan Gallay,in The Formation of a Planter Elite: Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier (1989)

SECTION ONE

1. What is the main argument, the thesis, of the book?

2. Section TWO 1 "The Southern Frontier"

1. Gallay describes the Southeast as a region of "great fluidity." (6) What did this mean and how did it affect human culture in the region?

2. How did Joseph Bryan make his living?

3. How did Jonathan Bryan adapt to the frontier conditions of South Carolina to make his living?

3. SECTION THREE "Impassioned Disciples"

1. How did Jonathan Bryan attempt to change slaveholding when he became an Evangelical Christian?

2. What was George Whitefield's relationship to Jonathan Bryan and the legalization of slavery in Georgia?

3. What does Gallay mean by "paternalism" and how did Jonathan Bryan embody it?

4. SECTION FOUR "From One Frontier to Another"

1. When did Bryan decide to move to Georgia? Why did he go?

2. How did stronger colonial governments benefit slaveholders?

5. SECTION FIVE "Land and Politics"

1. In what ways did Bryan obtain his land?

2.Why does Bryan ultimately turn against the British monarchy?

6. SECTION SIX "Politics, 1761-1773"

1. Why does Bryan join the protest movement against Parliament?

2. How did Bryan reach out to men who were of a different economic class?

7. SECTIONSEVEN"Dreams of Empire"

1.Why do the Creeks give Bryan land?

8. SECTION EIGHT "The War and After, 1776-1788"

1) What positions did Bryan hold in the revolutionary government of Georgia?

2. Why was Jonathan Bryan successful?

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