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====Georgia====

====Georgia====

[[Image:SavannahColony.JPG|thumb|250px|Savannah, Georgia Colony, Early 1700's]]

[[Image:SavannahColony.JPG|thumb|250px|Savannah, Georgia Colony, Early 1700's]]

[[James Oglethorpe]], an 18th century British [[Member of Parliament]], established [[Georgia Colony]] as a common solution to two problems.  At that time, tension between Spain and Great Britain was high, and the British feared that Spanish Florida was threatening the British Carolinas.  Oglethorpe decided to establish a colony in the contested border region of Georgia and populate it with debtors who would otherwise have been imprisoned according to standard British practice.  This plan would both rid Great Britain of its undesirable elements and provide her with a base from which to attack Florida.  The first colonists arrived in 1733.

[[James Oglethorpe]], an 18th century British [[Member of Parliament]], established [[Georgia]] as a common solution to two problems.  British feared that Spanish Florida was threatening the British Carolinas.  Oglethorpe established his colony in the contested border region of Georgia and populated it with the poor and debtors who would otherwise have been imprisoned.  This plan would both rid Britain of its undesirable elements and provide her with a base from which to attack Florida.  The first colonists arrived in 1733.

 

Oglethorpe established his colony on strict moralistic principles.  Slavery was forbidden, as was alcohol.  The colonists rejected any puritanical lifestyle and complained that their colony could not compete economically with the Carolina rice plantations. Georgia initially failed to prosper, but in 1752 the trustees turned over control of the colony to the royal government and the restrictions were lifted, slavery was allowed, and it became moderately prosperous.

===Plantations===

===Plantations===

Beginning in the 1720s, after many years being poorly educated, hunting deer on foot, getting drunk, and gambling, the next generation of planters began to construct large Georgian-style mansions, wear bright red attire, and hunt deer from horseback. Wealthy women in the Southern colonies shared in the British culture. They read British magazines, wore fashionable clothing of British design, and served an elaborate afternoon tea.  

Beginning in the 1720s, after many years being poorly educated, hunting deer on foot, getting drunk, and gambling, the next generation of planters began to construct large Georgian-style mansions, wear bright red attire, and hunt deer from horseback. Wealthy women in the Southern colonies shared in the British culture. They read British magazines, wore fashionable clothing of British design, and served an elaborate afternoon tea.