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In exchange for 50 acres of land, tools, and a year's worth of food, Georgia settlers in the Trustee Era were required to:

1. defend the colony of Georgia against outside forces
2. send 100% of their profits to the king
3.only trade with Spain and France
own slaves.

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Georgia settlers in the Trustee Era were expected to defend the colony as part of the land agreement. Economic challenges and social experiments under the Trustees led to the system's failure, and Crown control was established in 1752.

Step-by-step explanation:

In exchange for 50 acres of land, tools, and a year's worth of food, Georgia settlers in the Trustee Era were required to defend the colony of Georgia against outside forces, specifically the Spanish and Native American groups.

James Oglethorpe and the Trustees intended for the colonists to act as a militia, supporting the colony's role as a military buffer between the Carolinas and Spanish Florida.

The Trustees also envisioned Georgia as a social experiment for the "deserving poor" and believed that it would quickly become self-sufficient.

However, economic hardships, indentured servitude, and the prohibition of slavery and alcohol under the Trustees led to discontent and ultimately, the collapse of the Trustee system in 1752, when the Crown took over the administration of the colony.

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