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  2. History of Georgia (U.S. state) - Wikipedia

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    1905 map showing colonial Georgia 1732–63 and surrounding area. In 1752, Georgia became a royal colony. Planters from South Carolina, wealthier than the original settlers of Georgia, migrated south and soon dominated the colony. They replicated the customs and institutions of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Planters had higher rates of ...

  3. Province of Georgia - Wikipedia

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    The Province of Georgia [1] (also Georgia Colony) was one of the Southern Colonies in colonial-era British America. In 1775 it was the last of the Thirteen Colonies to support the American Revolution .

  4. Timeline of Colonial America - Wikipedia

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    The Province of Georgia is founded. 1735 – The Province of Georgia bans slavery. 1739 – Outbreak of the War of Jenkins' Ear. The Stono Rebellion in the Province of South Carolina is crushed. 1740 – The Plantation Act is passed to encourage immigration to the colonies and regularize colonial naturalization procedures.

  5. History of slavery in Georgia - Wikipedia

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    Slavery in Georgia is known to have been practiced by European colonists. During the colonial era, the practice of slavery in Georgia soon became surpassed by industrial-scale plantation slavery. The colony of the Province of Georgia under James Oglethorpe banned slavery in 1735, the only one of the thirteen colonies to have done so.

  6. Timeline of Savannah, Georgia - Wikipedia

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    Colonial Park Cemetery established. Christ Church built. [2] Savannah Female Asylum founded. [2] 1754 Savannah becomes capital of British Province of Georgia. [4] Pirates' House Inn in business. 1755 January 1: Georgia legislature convenes. [2] Independent Presbyterian Church founded. 1762 – Bonaventure Plantation established.

  7. Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in ...

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    The Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America, or simply the Georgia Trustees, was a body organized by James Edward Oglethorpe and associates following parliamentary investigations into prison conditions in Britain. After being granted a royal charter in 1732, Oglethorpe led the first group of colonists to the new ...

  8. Georgia in the American Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Georgia subsequently took part to the Second Continental Congress with the other colonies. In 1776 and 1778, Georgia served as the staging ground for several important raids into British-controlled Florida. The British army captured Savannah in 1778, and the American and French forces failed to recapture the city during the Siege of Savannah in ...

  9. Trustee Georgia - Wikipedia

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    Trustee Georgia is the name of the period covering the first twenty years of Georgia history, from 1732–1752, because during that time the English Province of Georgia was governed by a board of trustees.