https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g Claire Annabelle Molly Tala en-us 2023-08-24 15:48:30 UTC 2023-08-28 22:50:22 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f351.png https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2671835643 Georgia is a part of the Southern Colonies.]]> 2023-08-24 16:03:05 UTC https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2671835643 asnyder4_6_7 https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673103102 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.]]> 2023-08-25 15:33:58 UTC https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673103102 msincroft https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673109018 The colony of Georgia's economy was based on cash crops (The first colony to commercially produce cotton)]]> 2023-08-25 15:38:45 UTC https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673109018 tfisher68 https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673111791 Being a part of the Southern colonies, Georgia had a warm climate with long growing seasons, along with good soil and river valleys.]]> 2023-08-25 15:41:10 UTC https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673111791 msincroft https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673112154 The colony of Georgia mainly produced these crops: grapes, indigo, mulberry trees, ]]> 2023-08-25 15:41:33 UTC https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673112154 msincroft https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673114846 There was slavery in the Georgia Colony.]]> 2023-08-25 15:44:10 UTC https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673114846 cdonley2 https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673115136 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.]]> 2023-08-25 15:44:26 UTC https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673115136 msincroft https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673116918 Popular occupations in the colony include, blacksmith, locksmith, and gunsmith.]]> 2023-08-25 15:46:15 UTC https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673116918 tfisher68 https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673117159 The colonists used the fertile soil for planting crops like rice, and cotton.]]> 2023-08-25 15:46:29 UTC https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673117159 cdonley2 https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673120232 Georgia was mostly ruled by the King's Governor or by planters (land owners)]]> 2023-08-25 15:49:23 UTC https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673120232 msincroft https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673121550 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.]]> 2023-08-25 15:50:28 UTC https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673121550 tfisher68 https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673121720 Georgia's climate consists of short, pretty mild winters, and long hot summers.]]> 2023-08-25 15:50:30 UTC https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673121720 asnyder4_6_7 https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673122743 The original reason for the Georgia colony to be founded was to be a refuge for the debtors who crowded the London prison ]]> 2023-08-25 15:51:20 UTC https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673122743 tfisher68 https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673124329 Georgia is located in the Southern colonies under South Carolina.]]> 2023-08-25 15:53:08 UTC https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673124329 cdonley2 https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673136159 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. ]]> 2023-08-25 15:55:07 UTC https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673136159 asnyder4_6_7 https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673136198 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.]]> 2023-08-25 15:55:10 UTC https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673136198 cdonley2 https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673142373 2023-08-25 16:00:24 UTC https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2673142373 tfisher68 https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2675338867 2023-08-28 15:53:02 UTC https://padlet.com/asnyder4_6_7/py844uo09u0vpg6g/wish/2675338867