CLASS 10
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Question
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Settlers led by John Martin Bolzius-German Protestants-spoke German-forced to leave Germany by Catholics, founded Ebenezer near Savannah.
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Settlers in Georgia who were unhappy with the rules and regulations of Oglethorpe and the trustees (no rum, no slaves and limits on land ownership).
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A colony governed directly through the king by a governor.
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Given to James Oglethorpe in June of 1732, by King George II of England, granting him land in the New World to settle a colony.
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Detailed explanation-1: -During the 1730s, Scottish settler Patrick Tailfer led a group of colonists, knowns as the Malcontents, in protest of various laws and policies enforced by the Georgia Trustees.
Detailed explanation-2: -Many of the settlers were unhappy with the various laws and restrictions imposed on the colony. Both the prohibition on Rum and the prohibition regarding slave ownership were exceedingly unpopular. The colonists also demanded more political rights. By the time Oglethorpe left there were 1, 000 families in Georgia.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Malcontents were a faction of gentlemen in the Fifth French War of Religion (1574–1576). It opposed the policy of Henry of Valois, duc d’Anjou, who had become king under the name Henry III on 30 May 1574, and allied itself to the Huguenots.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Malcontents’ major complaints were that the Trustees had placed too many limitations on the ownership of land, the right to make and to buy alcohol, and the right to own slaves.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Malcontents’ major complaints were that the Trustees had placed too many limitations on the ownership of land, the right to make and to buy alcohol, and the right to own slaves.