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