USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -James Oglethorpe was a former British military officer who founded the Georgia colony. He wanted to create a colony where the poor and people who had been in prison for not paying money they owed could come and start a new and better life.

Detailed explanation-2: -James Oglethorpe died on June 30, 1785. He was 88 years old. Although many of his utopian ideals for Georgia did not last (slavery became legal in 1751), he helped a lot of the poor and persecuted of England by providing them land and opportunity in the Americas.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -In 1733 he and 120 settlers sailed for the new colony. They founded the city of Savannah upon their arrival. The colony was named after King George II. In 1736 Oglethorpe and colonists built Fort Frederica to help defend their colony against the Spanish in the area.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.