History of the United States I / Unit 4 USH1 0481 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Georgia's Founding Vision
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The idea
James Oglethorpe, having witnessed the conditions of debtors' prison, petitioned George the Second, who understood the strategic advantage of a buffer between South Carolina and Spanish Florida.
In practice
One hundred thirteen immigrants arriving on the ship Anne in seventeen thirty-three, each male given fifty acres, tools and a year's supplies.
Where people slip
Parliament funded twenty-five hundred settlers, making Georgia the only government-funded colonial project.
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