Social Activists: The Georgia Colony

The Georgia Colony In 1932, James Oglethorpe led a group of trustees that chartered to Georgia and made a colony to perform a social experiment on man’s capacity to improve. Not long after the colony began, the colonists began to complain and disapprove of the government they were under. The trustees set strict rules and did not give the settlers the same benefits that other colonies got. By the 1950’s, all of the trustees gave up on their experiment and Georgia became a royal colony. The trustees had failed and the colonists in the colony got their way. Was it the kinds of settlers in the colonists, the form of government, or both that ultimately led to the demise of the social experiment? Many different races and origins made