GEORGIA

GEORGIA

• Georgia is in the Piedmont region
• The Georgia Piedmont lies between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Upper Coastal Plain.
• The southern Piedmont extends from Alabama and Georgia northeastward through South Carolina and North Carolina.

JAN 2ND, 1788

• Georgia was founded in 1788 by James Oglethorpe and 21 other people .

Why wAS THE COLONY FOUNDED?

• In 1732, James Oglethorpe was given a charter from King George II to create a new colony which he would name Georgia. This was located between South Carolina and Florida. It had two main purposes: to serve as a place where debtors in prison could go to start anew and it served as a barrier against Spanish expansion from Florida.

WHY DID THEY CHOOSE THAT LOCATION ?

• Oglethorpe and his fellow trustees were granted a royal charter for the Province of Georgia between the Savannah and Altamaha rivers on 9 June 1732.

HOW DID THEY MAKE A LIVING ?

• People in colonial Georgia and the other Southern colonies made a living exporting tobacco, furs, indigo, rice and farm products. Colonial work was generally related to agriculture and farming, with top exports including vegetables, fruit, cotton and livestock

WHAT TYPE OF PEOPLE SETTLED HERE ?

• James Oglethorpe settled Georgia because he wanted a free land where everyone could be accepted. He also wanted Georgia to be an area where debtors, people who owe debts, could come to start fresh.

WHAT TYPE OF GOVERNMENT DO THEY HAVE ?

• Colonial Georgia was originally under a trustee system. The Board of Trustees served in humanitarian roles, and they elected 15 members, called the Common Council, to conduct business for the colony. The colony defaulted to monarch rule in 1755

MAJOR CITYS

• Savannah

SIGNIFICANT LANDFORMS

• Northern Georgia is covered by the southern edges of the Appalachian Mountains. The heavily forested Blue Ridge Mountains, famed for a bluish color when seen from a distance, form the eastern front of the Appalachians, from Georgia to Pennsylvania

WHAT RELIGIOUS BELIEFS DID THEY HAVE ?

• Georgians practice Orthodox Christianty
• According to the legend it was Georgia that the Mother of God had to go with the apostolic sermon spreading the doctrine of Christ in new lands. Therefore, Georgia is considered the country chosen by the Mother of God who is the patroness of the country

WHY WOULD I WANT TO MOVE HERE ?

• Beautiful lakes an nature
• Kindest people
• Great education
• Weather is amazing
• Affordable everything
• Safer than a lot other places
• Festivals all the time