USA HISTORY

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. After Oglethorpe left the army, he devoted himself to helping the poor and debt-ridden people of London, whom he suggested settling in America.

Detailed explanation-2: -He was a social reformer in England founding Georgia, after a grant from King George II, to resettle Britain’s poor, especially those in debtors’ prison. He established a small group on the Savanna River hoping to create a debtors colony that was free of vice.

Detailed explanation-3: -James Edward Oglethorpe, (born December 22, 1696, London, England-died June 30/July 1, 1785, Cranham Hall, Essex, England), English army officer, philanthropist, and founder of the British colony of Georgia in America.

Detailed explanation-4: -Oglethorpe imagined the Georgia colony to be an ideal agrarian society; he opposed slavery and allowed people of all religions to settle in Savannah even though the charter stated that Catholics and Jewish people were not allowed.

Detailed explanation-5: -Oglethorpe wanted it to be different from the rest of the English colonies in America. He didn’t want the colony to be dominated by large wealthy plantation owners who owned hundreds of slaves. He envisioned a colony that would be settled by debtors and the unemployed. They would own and work small farms.