The three major groups that affected the Trustee period in Georgia
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Salzburgers
Arrived to Georgia in
__1734________.
They were expelled from
Germany for not being
Catholic.
They were
__Protestants_____ who
wanted religious freedom.
Created the town of
_Ebenezer____, but was too
swampy to survive.
Relocated to the town of
New Ebenezer along
_Savannah_ River and it
became a very religious.
Trustees liked them because
they were __hard___
workers.
They did not like
__alcohol___ or _slavery_
which were rules the
colonists had to live by.
Very successful
__farmers___
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Highland Scots
Came to Georgia in _1736_.
They were from _Scotland_.
Built the town / fort of
__Darien__ south of
Savannah along the Altamaha
River
Reputation of hard working
people who were good
__soldiers__.
Protected the Georgia colony
from Spanish Florida –
helped Oglethorpe push the
__Spanish___ out of
Georgia in the Battle of
Bloody Marsh
Changed from farming
to__cattle__ raising and
harvesting _timber__
Opposed slavery in the
colony
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Malcontents
Complained against the
leadership of Oglethorpe.
Land Problems – poor soil to
grow __mulberry____ trees.
Slavery – Many of the crops
were labor-intensive. They
wanted _slaves_ like S.C.
Rum – _Rum_ was cheap to
buy and could be traded as
well. They wanted to be able
to drink.
By 1740 some of the loudest
malcontents fled to South
Carolina. The discontent did
not go away.