USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Although most people of the Southern colonies were English, there were small groups of Scots, Scotch-Irish, Germans, and others. The official religion of Virginia and the Carolinas was the Church of England (the Anglican church). Religion, though, never strongly swayed the people in the Southern colonies.

Detailed explanation-2: -The founder of Georgia, James Oglethorpe, specifically started the colony as a debtor’s refuge in 1732, as an alternative to English debtors’ prison.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Colonies | Georgia. The last of the 13 colonies to be founded, Georgia began as a line of fortress towns, creating a buffer between English settlers in the Carolinas and the Spanish in Florida. Created as a land for English debtors to start fresh in the New World, Georgia was a land filled with promise.

Detailed explanation-4: -Georgia’s Founding By this time any ideas of Georgia’s being a haven for debtors in English prisons had long vanished-and not one formerly jailed debtor was among the first colonists selected.