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After years of planning and two months crossing the Atlantic, James Oglethorpe and 114 colonists climbed 40 feet up the bluff from the Savannah River on this day in 1733 and founded the colony of Georgia. George II granted the Georgia trustees a charter for the colony a year earlier.

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Slaves were a big part of Georgia's social structure. There were about 18,000 enslaved people in Georgia in 1732 when the colony was founded.

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Georgia is located in the Southern colonies under South Carolina.

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The original reason for the Georgia colony to be founded was to be a refuge for the debtors who crowded the London prison

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Georgia's climate consists of short, pretty mild winters, and long hot summers.

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Most people in the Georgia Colony were fairly wealthy. From the great soil for growing crops and the control of labor from the slaves and indentured servants, the people in the South made good money. The people who were the most wealthy in Georgia were the white masters of plantations.

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Georgia was mostly ruled by the King's Governor or by planters (land owners)

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The colonists used the fertile soil for planting crops like rice, and cotton.

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Popular occupations in the colony include, blacksmith, locksmith, and gunsmith.

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Social classes in Georgia were very strict and women had less rights than men. Georgia was very similar to England, they had English churches and schooling was done mostly by tutors at home.

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There was slavery in the Georgia Colony.

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The colony of Georgia mainly produced these crops: grapes, indigo, mulberry trees,

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Being a part of the Southern colonies, Georgia had a warm climate with long growing seasons, along with good soil and river valleys.

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The colony of Georgia's economy was based on cash crops (The first colony to commercially produce cotton)

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James Edward Oglethorpe founded The Georgia colony
Brief Biography
James Edward Oglethorpe, founder of the colony of Georgia, was born on December 22, 1696, in Yorkshire, England. After graduating from Eton and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Oglethorpe began a military career in 1717, fighting against the Turks under Prince Eugene of Savoy.

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Georgia is a part of the Southern Colonies.