Reasons for GA Colony

What Englishman is considered the founder of the GA Colony?

• James Oglethorpe
• Hernando De Soto
• Hernan Cortez
• Christopher Columbus

As a member of Parliament, Oglethorpe was active in bringing about reforms in Britain’s

• voting & elections system
• educational system
• prison system
• health care system

James Oglethorpe’s philanthropic (humanitarian) inspiration for founding the Georgia colony was to

• help debtors & the working poor get a new start

• provide religious freedom for Catholics

• save the whales

• mine gold & other precious stones

Select three (3) reason for the English establishment of Georgia?

• An act of charity: giving opportunities to the worthy poor & unemployed

• Economic: helping England balance its trading policy and becoming self-sufficient

• Defensive: providing a buffer zone between South Carolina and the Spanish in Florida

• providing a base for Spain to begin settling the coast of North America

Why was South Carolina so pleased to have Georgia become Great Britain’s thirteenth colony?

• Georgia provided a buffer between South Carolina and the Spanish 
• Georgia offered two more ports from which to export goods to Great Britain.
• Georgia attracted the Indians who were  attacking South Carolina.
• Georgia would serve as South Carolina's colony.

Georgia became the 13th English colony?

• true
• false

What word is the best synonym for PHILANTHROPY?

• military

• mercantilism

• debtor

• charity

Georgia would become the thirteenth colony of which European mother country?

• England
• France
• Spain
• Portugal

From what enemy was the Georgia colony to protect the South Carolina colony?

• England

• Spain

• Great Britain

• North Carolina

In whose honor was the Georgia colony named?

• James Oglethorpe

• Hernando De Soto

• Christopher Columbus

• King George II of England