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British colony founded in

received a charter and the
or people who
could not repay their debts. British officials thought that Georgia
would be able to protect the other colonies from their
colony was set up for (9)
enemy, (10)
Settlers built forts and the
town of (11)
as a barrier against expansion.
Georgia was the (7)
America. (S)
.
The colony did not develop as planned. Very few people
who owed debts came. Mostly, it was poor people and
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rules in the colony, especially the limits on
(13)
(14)
(15)
refugees. Most settlers complained about the
and the bans on slave labor and
Georgia was turned back over to
in 1751.

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In the 1730s, England founded the last of its colonies in North America. The project was the brain child of James Oglethorpe, a former army officer

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