USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In the early eighteenth century, Georgia, the last colony to be established, was under the control of a Board of Trustees; the trustees envisioned the colony both as a buffer between Spanish Florida and the Carolinas and a refuge for English debtors.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -In 1736 Oglethorpe established Fort Frederica on St. Simons Island to act as a defense to the south against the Spanish.

Detailed explanation-4: -From an imperial viewpoint, Georgia functioned as buffer zone between British settlements and their imperial rivals; the new colony was to be a garrison province that would defend the British, especially from Spanish Florida.

Detailed explanation-5: -The founder of Georgia, James Oglethorpe, specifically started the colony as a debtor’s refuge in 1732, as an alternative to English debtors’ prison.