The Charter of 1732 granted James Oglethorpe and other settlers to move into and create the colony of Georgia. It was granted by King Henry, and created to give the poor, or in dept, people of England a chance to a new start. However it did have regulations. You could not sell your land, and had to grow mulberry trees (to attract silk worms), you could not drink rum (alcohol), and you could not have landownership. But the regulation that angered the settlers the most, was not being allowed to own slaves. Along with those rules, Catholics and blacks could not go. (they didn't want African Americans to go because they didn't want them to become slaves.)
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