SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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Georgia
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New Hampshire
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Virginia
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Pennsylvania
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Detailed explanation-1: -Still, the mythology of Georgia’s founding as a debtors’ colony lives on-stubbornly. A more accurate depiction of the colony’s founding is that of a New World opportunity for personal freedom and growth.
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 Southern colonies included Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia. English American Southerners would not enjoy the generally good health of their New England counterparts.
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.