CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -The Georgia Salzburgers, a group of German-speaking Protestant colonists, founded the town of Ebenezer in what is now Effingham County.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Salzburger Emigrants were a group of German-speaking Protestant refugees from the Catholic Archbishopric of Salzburg (now in present-day Austria) that immigrated to the Georgia Colony in 1734 to escape religious persecution.

Detailed explanation-3: -They were Protestants in a Catholic country. The Catholics told them they would have to give up their religion or their land. They gave up their land, and they traveled to the New World to escape religious persecution.

Detailed explanation-4: -The swamps and river deltas of of their new home were infested by mosquitoes which bred malaria and typhoid. By January of 1736, twenty-one more settlers had died and this mortality, known as “seasoning, ” made the struggle to survive and grow more difficult.

Detailed explanation-5: -On which barrier island did the Salzburgers ultimately settle? The Salzburgers made their final settlement on St. Simons Island.