alleryStart learning →Why did James Oglethorpe and his colleagues establish Georgia?
ATo settle freed debtors and grow indigo for export
BTo settle freed debtors and block the Spaniards
CTo shelter English Catholics from persecution
DTo open a fur trade with the northern Iroquois
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. To settle freed debtors and block the Spaniards
1. The individual colonies reflected the varied reasons for which they were begun.
2. Georgia was established for reasons both benevolent and practical.
3. The plan was to release imprisoned debtors from English jails and send them to America.
4. The colony they founded would also serve as a bulwark against the Spaniards to the south.
5. Sheltering English Catholics was the concern behind Maryland rather than Georgia.
_Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section THE LAND IS SETTLED_
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