SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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Calvert Family
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The Lords Proprietors
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James Oglethorpe
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -James Edward Oglethorpe, founder of the colony of Georgia, was born on December 22, 1696, in Yorkshire, England. After graduating from Eton and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Oglethorpe began a military career in 1717, fighting against the Turks under Prince Eugene of Savoy.
Detailed explanation-2: -Oglethorpe argued that the colony would solve two problems. First, it would remove some of the unemployed people from England and give them work in the New World. Second, it would provide a military buffer between Spanish Florida and the productive English colony of South Carolina.
Detailed explanation-3: -The initial impetus behind Georgia’s founding came from James Oglethorpe, who envisioned the new colony as a refuge for the debtors who crowded London prisons; however, no such prisoners were among the initial settlers.
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.