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Unit 2
• Colonization of Georgia
• 1663 GB claimed Georgia
• 1717 plans to settle GA• Skelmony, Scotland –
Aaron Hill – Amos Kettleby wanted to grow– Coffee, tea, figs,
currants, olives, rice, almonds, silk
• James Edward Oglethorpe
• Born in London 1696• 1722 member of
parliament• Help people in debt• Creates a colony for
“unfortunate but worthy individuals”
• A Dream Becomes a Reality
• 1730 Oglethorpe & 12 men ask to make a colony
• June 7, 1732 King George II grants charter
• Oglethorpe & 21 trustees responsible
• Named Georgia after king
• Trustees are managers
• Georgia’s three purposes
• Extra Purpose (Unofficial)
• Charity – Get rid of poverty and unemployment.
• Economics – Increase Britain's trade and wealth
• Defense – Buffer South Carolina from attack.
• Religion – Home for Protestants being persecuted in England
Charter of 1732Charter of 1732Trustees could not
– own land– Hold political office– Be given money for
work (paid)
• Not allowed in GA– Catholics
– Blacks
– Liquor dealers
– Lawyers
Why they Couldn’t
– Afraid of them being bribed
– Ripping off colony
– English=Protestants Catholics and Protestants don’t get along
– Afraid of Slavery
– Didn’t want Drunks and laziness
– colonist to solve own problems
Charter of 1732
Exit Questions
• 1. What was the 3 official reasons for the colony?
• 2. What is the 1 unofficial reason?• 3. Why weren’t blacks allowed?• 4. How did Georgia get its name?• 5. Why aren’t liquor dealers allowed in
Georgia?• 6. Why were lawyers not allowed in
Georgia?
• What the Colonists Get
• Promised – 50 acres– Tools– Food for a year
• What the Colonists had to do
• pay own way• Defend colony• Can’t sell land or
borrow against it• Land given to male
heir• Cultivate land (farm it)• Grow mulberry trees
for silk • Obey all regulations
• Voyage on the Ship Ann
• Nov 17, 1732• Ship Ann leave
England• 114-125 people on it• 2 die• Dock in Charleston
• Tomochichi
• Georgia Day
• Oglethorpe meets Chief Tomochichi of the Yamacraw
• John & Mary Musgrove are interpreters & traders
• Chief allow them to build on Savannah River
• Feb 12,1733 Day Colonist arrive at Yamacraw Bluff
• 1732 when the colony was named Savannah
Section 4Section 4
• Building a New Home
Savannah
• Oglethorpe leader of colonists
• Build a fort • Create a militia• 40 settlers die from
– Diet– Hard work– Poor sanitation
• Savannah • Colonel William Bull, surveyor Noble Jones
• Planned by Robert Castell
• City built in with 4 squares
• Squares divided into blocks called tythings
• Meeting places at centers
• The Arrival of New Colonists
• Ship of Jewish people come– Dr. Nunez saves colonists
from Malaria
• Salzburgers from Germany arrive– Create town New Ebenezer– Later move to St. Simons Is
• Oglethorpe goes to GB• Returns w 300 colonists• Moravians and Salzburgers
(Germans)
Jewish ContributionJewish Contribution
SalzburgersSalzburgers
Highland ScotsHighland Scots
Exit Questions
• 1. Name one thing the colonists got.
• 2. Name two things the colonists had to do.
• 3. Where did the Salzburgers come from?
• 4. When is Georgia Day?
• 5. What is another name for a block
• Discontent among the settlers (Malcontents)
• Colonist upset about regulations (malcontents)– Land to male heirs– Economic hardship– Could not grow hemp, flax,
indigo and grapes for wine
• SC doing great – no regulations– Wanted Slaves– Highland Scots and
Salzburgers did not want slavery
• The Spanish Invasion • Native Americans, GA and SC vs. Spain in FL
• Attack Spanish Forts & lose
• Join with Scots • attack on FL boarder• Battle of Bloody Marsh• Victor for GA
Battle of Bloody MarshBattle of Bloody Marsh
• The End of the Dream • Oglethorpe called to England
• Marries & settles• Williams Stephens in
charge – Allowed slavery
• A Last Look at the Charter Colony
• No debtors came to GA
• State motto• Non Sibi Sed Allis• Not for ourselves but
others
Exit Ticket
• 1. How many debtors went to Georgia?• 2. Name one thing the malcontents wanted.• 3. What battle was a victory for Oglethorpe
and Georgia?• 4. What colony did the malcontents want to
be like?• 5. What happens to Oglethorpe when he
returns to England?
• Georgia Becomes a Royal Colony
• 1752 GA becomes a royal colony
• 1754 Captain John Reynolds kings representative and CEO of colony
• Georgia Sets Up Self Government
• Upperhouse – advise governor
• Lowerhouse – Common House of Assembly – elect officers
• To vote you had to have:• 1. 50 acres• 2. white male• To serve you had to • 1. white male• 2. 500 acres
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• Governor John Reynolds
Argued with colonists over defense of colony
Stopped meeting with them
Tried to govern by self
Wanted to move the capital of GA
Fired and replaced
• Henry Ellis • Feb 1757• Allowed colonists to
come and bring slaves
• Angered Highland Scots & Salzburgers
• Colony gets rich
• James Wright • 1760• Make bigger farms –
increase slavery• Expand GA west
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