SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE 13 COLONIES LIFE IN EARLY AMERICA
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rich farmers who needed more land.
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the Quakers
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poor people who owed money and had no way to pay it.
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in honor of King George.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Georgia was established in part as an experiment, based on ideals lost in the other colonies’ growth, and to provide the mother country with raw goods. The southern location and warm climate of Georgia led many to believe it would be suitable for the cultivation of silk and fruits.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Georgia Colony was rich with natural resources such as fish, timber, and good agricultural land. This is why their main industries were sugar, indigo, and rice. Farming and plantations were important economic success of the colony.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Province of Georgia (also Georgia Colony) was one of the Southern colonies in British America. It was the last of the thirteen original American colonies established by Great Britain in what later became the United States.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the 1730s, England founded the last of its colonies in North America. The project was the brain child of James Oglethorpe, a former army officer.