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2.1- The Thirteen Colonies

Revolutions

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South of the Carolinas

Everyone from the largest plantation owner to the smallest little freeholder, was deeply in debt. Everyone bought on liberally extended credit for england. Thet would always come due with the next tobacco crop. South of virginia were the carolinas, founded in 16 29 and named after our old friend, charles. Georgia was a proprietary colony dreamed up by james oglethorpe and a group of benevolent utopians who saw the colony as a way to rehabilitate and put to good use the desperate poor of england. By now, facing almost certain destruction, many of the poor colonists shipped over, found life in ogletha's utopia dangerously rigid

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