33b -evaluate the Trustee Period of Georgia’s colonial
history emphasizing the role of Salzburgers, Highland Scots, malcontents, and Spanish threat from Florida
history emphasizing the role of Salzburgers, Highland Scots, malcontents, and Spanish threat from Florida
trustee period
the salzburgers
The Georgia Salzburgers, a group of German-speaking Protestant colonists, founded the town of Ebenezer. Arriving in 1734, the group received land from King George II of England and the Georgia Trustees after being expelled from its home in the Catholic principality of Salzburger. The Salzburgers survived extreme hardships in both Europe and Georgia to establish a community. In early 1736 Oglethorpe gave the Salzburgers a new site on the high bluffs above the Savannah River. The settlers referred to the new settlement as New Ebenezer.
highland scouts
James Oglethorpe soon realized the need for military outposts to the south to protect the main settlement at Savannah. The purpose of the Georgia colony was largely military at first.The men were trained Highland warriors, among the world's finest fighting soldiers and specially selected by Oglethorpe for the purpose he had in mind.
malcontents
were people that disagreed with the policies of General James Oglethorpe and the Georgia Trustees during the early years of Georgia's settlement, the Malcontents issued the complainants about the colony. The leaders of the group, composed primarily of Scottish settlers near Savannah. The Malcontents first made their objections heard in 1735 shortly after their arrival in the new colony. Most of the Malcontents arrived without assistance and did not have the same loyalty to the colony's founders. In particular, the Malcontents objected to the Trustees' limits on landownership and prohibitions on slavery and rum.
SPANISH treat from flordia
On July 7, 1742, English and Spanish forces on St. Simons Island in an encounter later later known as the battle of bloody marsh. This event was the only Spanish attempt to invade Georgia during the War of Jenkins' Ear, and it resulted in a significant English victory. the Spanish organized an invasion of Georgia in mid-June 1742 with approximately 4,500 to 5,000 soldiers.