SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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Farms stayed small with only family to help run them.
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Farms hired indentured servants in order to grow their business.
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Farms used more machinery since they did not have extra labor.
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Farms lost money so farmers were forced to do other jobs.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What effect did Oglethorpe’s rule against slavery have on the farming industry in Georgia? Farms stayed small with only family to help run them. Farms hired indentured servants in order to grow their business. Farms used more machinery since they did not have extra labor.
Detailed explanation-2: -Oglethorpe himself led the first group of 114 colonists on the frigate Anne, landing at the site of today’s Savannah on February 1, 1733. The original charter banned slavery and granted religious freedom, leading to the foundation of a Jewish community in Savannah.
Detailed explanation-3: -Slavery Permitted The planters and the people they enslaved flooded into Georgia and soon dominated the colony’s government. In 1755 they replaced the slave code agreed to by the Trustees with one that was virtually identical to South Carolina’s. This code was amended in 1765 and again in 1770.
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.