Although the Georgia Trustees originally envisioned the new Georgia colony as a second chance for debtors in British jails, the geographic location was also ideal to defend the British colonies from Spain, which occupied Florida to the south. When Oglethorpe left the colonists in Port Royal to scout for the location of the new colony, he selected a spot that was very close to friendly South Carolina and as far as possible from unfriendly Spanish-occupied Florida.
They brought with him beliefs mirroring those of the Enlightenment. They believed that government should protect citizens' natural human rights, and listen to their needs. They also believed that if a government failed to protect its people and their rights, then citizens have the right to abolish that government.
Many of the beliefs about government in the colonies were reflected from Enlightenment leaders, such as John Locke.
They supported isolationism because no one in their right mind wants to go to war. They wanted to stay on their continent and not participate in European controversy. FDR want to get involved because he could help rebuild Europe afterwards and this would enable the US to establish trade deals with Europeans and accumulate a lot of wealth for the country.
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Thoreau was fervently against slavery and actively worked for abolitionism. Where, he participated in the Underground Railroad and in opposition with the popular opinion of the time. Two weeks after the ill-fated raid on Harpers Ferry and in the weeks leading up to Brown's execution, Thoreau regularly delivered a speech to the citizens of Concord, Massachusetts in which he compared the US government to Pontius Pilate.</span>
Lenin<span> was the founder of the Russian Communist Party</span>
