Question

By such a Colony, many families, who would otherwise starve, will be provided for, and made masters of house and lands: the people in Great Britain to whom these...families were a burden, will be relieved.

Which statement describes the effect of this quotation by James Oglethorpe?

Answer 1

A large number of debtors decided to settle in Georgia.

Cash-crop agriculture expanded because new colonists needed to make large profits.

Colonists in Georgia relied heavily on slave labor to control large plantations.

Indentured servitude allowed poor Germans the opportunity to move to the Americas.

Answer 2

I'm not 100% on this one; what do you think?

Answer 3

um not sure im really stuck

Answer 4

Which ones do you know it's not?

Answer 5

ok i know we can leave A alone because it talks about Georgia and Georgia is the place he was in charge of

Answer 6

The question talks about Great Britain, not Germany...

Answer 7

Yah, I know. Just helping rule out D ^_^

Answer 8

Indentured servitude was for poor German and English teenagers to get free passage to the US. C. Is a fact but don't think it has to do with this question. It should be D.

Answer 9

um im confused now C:

Answer 10

Me to lol and I don't think it's B because later on the cash-crop system ruined the southern economy :P

Answer 11

I actively admit that I'm only using wikipedia, but it very prominently says the he was trying to get people out of debtor's prison in England, so I was leaning towards A. Yeah, B is definitely not the one.

Answer 12

ya cause of the slavery thing thats why we had the civil war

Answer 13

that was a contributing factor, but that's about 130 years from this question ^^

Answer 14

lol ok lets get back to topic

Answer 15

My vote was A, but if Dragan is actively studying history I would trust them more ^_^

Answer 16

A or D :P is all I got but I would get other peoples opinion tbh :P and I am but this question goes so in depth, like one of those questions you have an answer to after reading a long passage in a college textbook -_- lol

Answer 17

Multiple choice never really humors nuance :P

Answer 18

But yeah, agreed. A few more opinions would probably be helpful ^_^

Answer 19

im leaning more towards A

Answer 20

im i right?

Answer 21

I say A, Drag is 50/50 A and D, you say 70%-80% A - odds are in your favor assuming one of us isn't an outlier ^_^

Answer 22

I have no idea if you're right though. Just sayin'

Answer 23

Mathematics! ^

Answer 24

always! ^_^