Georgia presentation

Georgia: The 13th ColonyBy: Jordan Hall and Melissa Gorman

Sunday, February 6, 2011

HistoryFounded: 1732 by James Oglethorpe; a prison reformer

Last colony to be settled

Founded 50 years after the other 12

Oglethorpe traveled to South Carolina on The Ann with 116 men and women


History cont.

Named after England’s King George II

King George II was granted a charter and granted Georgia to James Edward Oglethorpe


Purpose

Georgia was an opportunity for the inmates to begin a new life

Provide a refuge for persecuted protestants

Military presence to provide a barrier between the other colonies and Spanish Florida


War

The first test of the new colony came in 1739 during the War of Jenkins Ear.

Southern Georgia and Florida were battlegrounds over the next four years, most notably the siege of St. Augustine (1740) and the Battle of Bloody Marsh (1742).

When peace finally settled on the colony Oglethorpe was gone, never to return, and William Stevens was president.


War cont.

Georgia bordered Spanish Florida

Spanish and Native Americans began to attack Savannah

Failed to capture St. Augustine, but were successful in beating back a Spanish retaliation


Religion

Georgia had always been a "melting pot," welcoming the persecuted and prosecuted of Europe including large groups of Puritans, Lutherans, and Quakers (Wrightsboro).

The only group not welcome in Georgia were Catholics, which is not surprising considering the religious wars that were fought a century earlier in England.

The diversity of religion brought Georgia an unexpected strength - an willingness to accept others regardless of religion.


Slaves

James Habersham petitioned for slavery to be allowed and the request was granted the following year in 1750

After approval of slaves, slaves constituted half of the 40,000-50,000 population.


Change to GeorgiaThe colonists were not happy with the restrictions placed on the colony.

After 12 years as governor, Oglethorpe returned to England bearing their demands. They wanted to be able to have alcohol and slaves, to participate in their own government, and they demanded land reform. They were successful.

Alcohol was finally allowed into the colony because it was thought that the importation of alcohol would improve trade.

There was strong opposition to slavery, particularly from the religious immigrants, they were in the minority and in 1750 Georgia became a slave colony.

Georgia was not prosperous under the trustee system. In 1749, 16 years into the trustee system, the colony also exported goods for the first time.


Communication

Mail seldom or couldn’t reach inland settlements

Roads were Indian Trails

Settlers saw very little of one another


Agriculture

Major industry:Indigo, Rice, wheat, lumber and sugar


Everyday Life

They settled in what is now Savannah; only town of importance

Farming, plantations, independent farms, trade and skilled labor as well.

No schools

Wooden village

Lack of land ownership


Bibliography

http://www.scarborough.k12.me.us/wis/teachers/dtewhey/webquest/colonial/13_original_colonies.htm

http://ourgeorgiahistory.com/history101/gahistory03.html

http://enter.theparsonage.us/new_page_41.htm

http://www.historywiz.org/georgia.htm

http://www.usahistory.info/southern/Georgia.html

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/13georgia.htm














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