CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Oglethorpe, in defiance of his fellow trustees, went further by allowing the Jewish immigrants to own land in the new colony. They founded the Temple Mickve Israel, the third-oldest Jewish congregation in America and the oldest in the South.

Detailed explanation-2: -Oglethorpe, however, had a solution. He suggested to the king that a new colony be established between South Carolina and Spanish Florida. The settlers would be made up of debtors and the unemployed.

Detailed explanation-3: -Georgians were again given the opportunity to participate in governing after Georgia became a royal colony. Through the Commons House of Assembly, white males owning at least 500 acres of land could be elected and pass laws for the colony.

Detailed explanation-4: -Catholics, Quakers and other non-Puritans were banned from the colony.

Detailed explanation-5: -“James Oglethorpe wanted to protect the Georgia colony from possible attacks from Spanish Florida. The men of Scotland had the reputation of being good soldiers, and so Oglethorpe recruited a group of about 175 Highland Scots to settle in the area south of Savannah.