Georgia

=GEORGIA=



James Oglethorpe founded Georgia in 1735. Georgia was founded for people in england who were in debt and find a home and start over and had to create a buffer for the reast of the colonies and Spain. Life in Georgia you always saw slaves and there was only alot of girl slaves not alot of regaular woman. There was also many comfort things. The jobs in Georgia was mostly farmers who worked hard. In Georgia there was schools but only rich people could get in. To get into school it was $190.00 for a white person, but for a black person it was $132.00. They cared vey very much for education. They traded with Russia for rice, animal skin,and natural resouces. Georgia settlers had no control of their govenment it was ruled by trustees. Its main crops were rice and indigo. In the southern colonies they had religious freedom. The settlers relate because the are debtors.

1. Oglethorpe banned slavery and alcohol. After Oglethorpe left his post 12 years later to return to England, the colonists immediately lifted the ban on alcohol. Three years following, in 1749, Georgia allowed slaves. 2. The colonists hoped to make silk Georgia's chief product, because the colony's plentiful mulberry trees were a food staple of the silkworm. The venture failed, and rice, indigo, lumber and fur became Georgia's primary exports. 3. In 1733, Georgia became the last of the 13 British colonies in North America, established nearly 50 years after New Hampshire. 4. Georgia's charter granted land to the trustees between the Savannah and Altamaha Rivers all the way to the South Sea, or the Gulf of Mexico.media type="custom" key="9414976" align="left"
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