>>>A. People whom were poor in England were sent to the Americas to inhabit land and make it prosper.
>>>>>>i. “And that they from and after the Expiration of the said last mentioned Twelve Months, will, during the Two next succeeding Years, abide, settle and inhabit in the said Province of Georgia, and Cultivate the Lands which shall be to them and their Heirs Male severally allotted and given, by all such Ways and Means as according to their several Abilities and Skills they shall be best Able and Capable.”
>>>>>>>>>a. These settlers were expected to make the land that they were given grow for the time that England wanted them to.
>>>B. The settlers were given size amounts of land that they had to prosper.
>>>>>>i. “Those in the Towns will have each of them a Lot Sixty Feet in Front and Ninety Feet in Depth, whereon they are to Build an House, and as much Land in the Country as in the whole will make up Fifty Acres. Those in the Villages will each of them have a Lot of Fifty Acres, which is to lie all together, and they are to Build their Houses upon it.”
>>>>>>>>>a. The settlers had to keep this land well taken care of, it was almost like now days having a home owners association.
>>>>>>ii. “ In their passion for system and regularity, the Trustees had assigned lands without regard to fertility or worth and had thus left many people both with inferior plots and at a serious disadvantage.”
>>>>>>>>>b. Decisions like this made it hard for Georgia in the beginning. “Georgia during its first decade remained a poor, “miserable colony.”
>>>C. The Trustees made rules that no rum or slaves where to be used in the state of Georgia.
>>>>>>i. “Negroes and Rum are Prohibited to be used in the said Colony…”
>>>>>>>>>a. These are the rules fot the Loyalist Trustees in Georgia.
2. The southern colonies, such as Georgia and South Carolina, were mostly populated with loyalist.
>>>A. With large numbers of loyalists it gave British ground to take southern colonies.
>>>>>>i. “Georgia and the Carolinas appeared to hold large numbers of loyalists, providing a base for the British to recapture the southern colonies one by one…”(text book pg. 241)
>>>>>>>>>a. The British were trying to take the colonies so that the patriots couldn’t take it.
>>>B. Georgia was the state that other states looked upon, like a “city upon a hill.”
>>>>>>i. “Georgia was to be not just a model colony but a model society for Britain…” (pg.284 Jackson)
>>>>>>>>>a. Georgia was Britians “example.”
3. In Georgia, following under British Government was the “rule” and if you didn’t you would be punished. (Patriot opinion)
>>>A. Britian gave the settlers their rights but only could the rights be decided for them by the British, which means that they basically had no rights at all.
>>>>>>i. “…when any person insited upon his just rights and privileges…was punished without mercy.” (Jackson pg. 288)
>>>>>>>>ii. “a colony of vassals, whose properties and liberties were, at all times, to have been disposed of at the discretion or option of their superiors.” (Jackson pg. 289)
>>>>>>>>>>iii. ““ …made a colony of British subjects happy if they” were “deprived of the liberities and properties of their birthright.” (Jackson pg. 289)
>>>>>>>>>a. The so called “freedom” that was given by the British to the settlers, was ultimately Britain’s decision, it wasn’t free.
>>>Citations
-The Library of Congress, American Memory. "Establishing the Georgia Colony." Colonial Settlements. July 24 2003. 17 Nov 2008
-The Library of Congress, American Memory. "The Georgia Trustees: Rules for 1735." Colonial Settlements. July 24 2003. 17 Nov 2008
-Jackson, Harvey H. , and Phinizy Spalding. Fory Years of Diversity. University of Georgia Press, 1984.
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