Economic Activity

Major Economic Activity in Colonial Georgia

Since 1773, the colonization of Georgia, Savannah has been the center of commerce for Georgia. During Savannah’s first decade, a friendly system of trading thrived between British settlers and the Yamacraw Indians. Trade commodity also existed between Georgia and Spain. After the cotton gin was invented in 1794, cotton and corn became trading commodities for Georgia. Spanish traders would sell rum to the colony in accommodation for cotton and corn, as well as typical Southern crops such as rice and indigo (dye). Slavery was also the favorable position of economics and commerce and was very popular among the rest of plantations in the Southern colonies. Georgia was competing with other Southern colonies for trade and commerce, and therefore General James Oglethorpe had to allow slavery in 1751 in order for Georgia to gain worth economically. Exports then sky-rocketed, some included alcohol, tobacco, cotton, grain, fruit and livestock. Georgia’s whole economy was based off of agriculture, commodity, and slave trade, and also had one of the largest plantation of the Southern colonies.

Original American Indians in the colony

The first American Indians in the colony of Georgia were the Yamacraw Indians. The Yamacraw Indians existed in the mid-1720’s to the mid-1740’s in the Savannah area. The leader of the Yamacraw Indians was Tomochichi. The Yamacraw Indians were economically influenced by British traders. The more the Yamacraw Indians went into debt into the British traders, the more the British traders wanted deer skin or Indian slaves. The Yamacraw Indians did what they had to do to survive.

Important Person in the colony: JAMES OGLETHORPE

James Oglethorpe was a visionary social reformer, and military leader. James Oglethorpe had a plan to discover the colony of Georgia. It was because of his hard work in England in 1732 that the British government authorized the establishment of it’s first new colony in North...