CLASS 10
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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England wanted to get rid of debtors permanently.
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The homeless would readily come to the New World.
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Oglethorpe had a friend who died in debtor’s prison.
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The poor were only well-educated people who had fallen on hard times
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Detailed explanation-1: -While serving as an MP, one of Oglethorpe’s friends was sentenced to debtor’s prison. Conditions in the debtor’s prisons were terrible. While in prison his friend got the disease smallpox and died. Oglethorpe felt something needed to be done.
Detailed explanation-2: -Oglethorpe envisioned a colony which would serve as a haven for English subjects who had been imprisoned for debt and “the worthy poor".
Detailed explanation-3: -Oglethorpe and several colleagues from the jails committee, notably John Lord Viscount Percival (later the first earl of Egmont), began exploring the possibility of creating a new colony in America. They believed that if given a chance, England’s “worthy poor” could be transformed into farmers, merchants, and artisans.
Detailed explanation-4: -Oglethorpe imagined the Georgia colony to be an ideal agrarian society; he opposed slavery and allowed people of all religions to settle in Savannah even though the charter stated that Catholics and Jewish people were not allowed.
Detailed explanation-5: -The purpose of Georgia was twofold: To have a state between South Carolina and Spanish Florida that would act as a buffer and to create an opportunity for indebted British citizens to have a fresh start.