Why was the colony of Georgia esablished?

Answer 1

During the time when a vote to secede was taken, a majority of 1,000 Georgians wanted to join the Union and not allow secession. Many believed slavery was not an issue they thought should cause the state to leave the union. The slave owners, however, managed to call a secession convention in which 87 percent of the delegates were slave owners.

Answer 2

I assume you mean the state of Georgia and not the country. Georgia wasn't founded per se, in the sense that the colonies of Massachusetts and Virginia, for example, were specifically and intentionally authorized by the King as English settlements. English expansion and the formation of discrete colonial boundaries occurred over time as the settlers proved they could succeed and support themselves. Interest grew within British society and more people came and settled in the New World. Eventually, at the same time people started moved into what is now Georgia, British officials in various towns and cities in England began looking to reduce the populations of their jails, and the un-incarcerated riff-raff it seemed only natural to have them shipped, usually as indentured servants, to the New World, thus providing the struggling colonies with needed manpower, while at the same time eliminating a financial drain on the home country's social services and local police resources. Some of these British 'undesirables' wound up in Virginia and the Carolinas, but most colonists and colonial officials didnt want shiploads of the riff-raff suddenly in their midst, and as Georgia was less established and less populated, many of these convicts wound up there and thus what is now the State of Georgia started life as a de facto penal colony. Australia shares a similar history of its beginnings.

Answer 3

The prisons in the upper colonies were getting too full, so they started a new colony to send everyone from the prisons to start a new life and to pay back what was needed.

For example, most debtors went to Georgia to start there new life and to start paying back what they owed to people.

Answer 4

The colony of Georgia was originally organized as a penal colony. General James Oglethorpe was the leader of the expedition that established the colony in the mid 1600s.

Answer 5

Georgia was originally envisioned as a safe haven for debtors. Its settlement, however, was largely based on a need to defend the other colonies from the Spanish, who occupied Florida.

Answer 6

Georgia was founded as a haven for debtors

Answer 7

because of king george the 2nd

Answer 8

What were the TWO main reasons for founding the colony of Georgia? Georgia was founded because colonists wanted to have a "buffer zone" and to serve as a haven for cruelly-treated English prisoners.