James Oglethorpe

Examples of James Oglethorpe in the following topics:

• Slavery in the South

  • James Oglethorpe, a member of Parliament and advocate of social reform, sought to create a colony for England's "worthy poor" to start anew.
  • In Savannah, the Oglethorpe Plan provided for a utopia: “an agrarian model of sustenance while sustaining egalitarian values holding all men as equal.”
  • James Oglethorpe was a British general, Member of Parliament, and philanthropist, as well as the founder of the colony of Georgia.
  • Unlike the southern colonies around him, Oglethorpe originally envisioned Georgia to be a slave-free society.

• Georgia

  • George II, for whom the colony was named, granted the colony's corporate charter to General James Oglethorpe in 1732.
  • In 1733, General James Oglethorpe, who was a British member of Parliament, established the Georgia Colony as a solution for two problems.
  • Oglethorpe imagined a province populated by "sturdy farmers" that could guard the border and because of this, the colony's charter prohibited slavery.
  • Additionally, Oglethorpe decided to establish a colony in the contested border region of Georgia and populate it with debtors who would otherwise have been imprisoned according to standard British practice.
  • In Savannah, the Oglethorpe Plan provided for a utopia: “an agrarian model of sustenance while sustaining egalitarian values holding all men as equal.”

• Troubled Neighbors

  • The charter for Georgia, the last of the thirteen original colonies, was granted to James Oglethorpe and others in 1732 .

• Changes in American Indian Life

• English Colonies

  • James Oglethorpe established the Georgia Colony in 1733 as a common solution to two problems.
  • Oglethorpe decided to establish a colony in the contested border region of Georgia and populate it with debtors who would otherwise have been imprisoned according to standard British practice.

• The Anti-German Crusade

  • Internees were held at two camps splitting the eastern and western United States along the Mississippi River: Fort Oglethorpe in Georgia and Fort Douglas in Utah.
  • Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to transfer the other 750 residents of the village to secure units at Fort McPherson in Georgia and Fort Oglethorpe, separated from the civilian internees there.

• A Diverse Population

  • Georgia was envisioned by its founder, General Oglethorpe, as a colony which would serve as a haven for English subjects who had been imprisoned for debt–essentially a province for the resettlement of "the worthy poor."
  • Oglethorpe banned alcohol, disagreed with slavery, and thought a system of smallholdings more appropriate than the large plantations common in the colonies to the north.

• The Glorious Revolution

  • The Glorious Revolution was the peaceful overthrow and replacement of King James II with William III and Mary II of England.
  • The crisis facing the king came to a head in 1688, with the birth of the King's son, James Francis Edward Stuart, on 10 June.
  • James and his wife fled the nation following a defeat of his forces at the Battle of Reading on 9 December.
  • Portrait of King James II & VII, by Sir Godfrey Kneller,
  • King James was deposed in the Revolution of 1688 by William III.

• The Glorious Revolution in America

  • When Charles II died in 1685, his successor, the Roman Catholic James II, continued the unification process, which culminated in the creation of the Dominion of New England.
  • He and other Massachusetts agents were received by James, who promised in October 1688 to address the colony's concerns.
  • However, James became increasingly unpopular in England.
  • James also attempted to place sympathizers in Parliament who would repeal the Test Act, which required a strict Anglican religious test for many civil offices.
  • With the birth of his son and potential successor James III in June 1688, some Whigs and Tories set aside their political differences and conspired to replace James with his Protestant son-in-law, William of Orange.

• The Conquest of New York

  • The Dutch colony of New Netherland was captured by the British and chartered by the Duke of York, who later became James II of England.
  • New York became a royal province in February of 1685 when its proprietor, the Duke of York, was crowned King James II of England.