The History of Georgia
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The history of Georgia involved a number of different settling groups until the time of the American Revolution, and while Georgia was then a part of the newly-created United States, that would cease for a time with the coming of the Civil War. Georgia from the first involved a clash between different cultures, first between the Native Americans and the Spanish, then between the Spanish and the English, with periods of conflict with the French as well. As Georgia developed as an entity, the people of Georgia kept largely to themselves, having little to do with the beginning of the American Revolution, though they fought in it and suffered for it as much as the other colonies. Conflict between groups continued, however, including conflict between Georgia and the United States itself.Georgia was the last of the thirteen British colonies established along the Atlantic seaboard. The state was founded by James Edward Oglethorpe with 114 original settlers on February 12, 1733, at the present site of the city of Savannah. Oglethorpe and a group of twenty friends had been granted a charter by King George II to establish a colony named after the king, and hence, the region was named Georgia ("History of the Georgia State Capitol"). Georgia had a long history before the coming of Oglethorpe, first with Native American tribes, then with a period in which Spanish missionaries and English traders also inhabited the area. The last pre historic cultural development in North America
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ins, and the Cherokee and Creek lived peacefully as neighbors until the late 1700's, when a great war erupted, culminating in a confrontation ending in the retreat of the Creek Nation to land south of the Chattahoochee River ("Georgia's Pre Revolutionary History").
Around 1670, the Franciscan settlement in Georgia posed a threat to the growing English settlement in South Carolina. English settlers in Charleston considered these missions to be intrusions and petitioned the crown for relief. By 1686, the Spanish had retreated to south of St. Mary's river which forms the eastern border of present day Georgia and Florida, and for the next 35 years, Spain, France, and England all laid claim to Georgia. James Oglethorpe, Sir John Perceval, the Earl of Egmont, and nineteen associates petitioned George II for a royal charter to establish a colony southwest of Carolina on July 30, 1730, with the purpose of establishing a buffer zone between Spanish Florida and South Carolina, as well as to provide economic opportunities for the English poor and to provide a refuge for European Protestants. Oglethorpe then founded Savannah on February 1, 1733 with 116 colonists. Georgia did not prosper under Oglethorpe and the Trustees, however, and t
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page)
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