USA HISTORY

SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732

THE 13 COLONIES LIFE IN EARLY AMERICA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
When did the English establish their last colony?
A
1607
B
1620
C
1733
D
1776
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -Georgia’s colonial experience was very different from that of the other British colonies in North America. Established in 1732, with settlement in Savannah in 1733, Georgia was the last of the thirteen colonies to be founded.

Detailed explanation-3: -American colonies, also called thirteen colonies or colonial America, the 13 British colonies that were established during the 17th and early 18th centuries in what is now a part of the eastern United States.

Detailed explanation-4: -Another reason for the founding of the colony was as a buffer state and a “garrison province” which would defend the southern British colonies from Spanish Florida. Oglethorpe imagined a province populated by “sturdy farmers” who could guard the border; because of this, the colony’s charter prohibited slavery.

Detailed explanation-5: -Georgia. England’s King George II granted a charter establishing the colony of Georgia in 1732, making it the last of the original 13 states to be established.

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