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Why did the English monarch want to establish the colony of Georgia?

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I believe georgia was a place to put all the criminals to work. like a prison, but eventually they could earn freedom.
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So that the English Monarch would be able to collect and ship the valuable resources that the New World had plentiful amounts of, like timber, multiple crops, and the taxing of the towns that were there.
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