Question

By such a Colony, many families, who would otherwise starve, will be provided for, and made masters of house and lands: the people in Great Britain to whom these...Families were a burden, will be relieved.

Answer 1

Answer: Indentured servitude allowed poor Germans the opportunity to move to the Americas.

Explanation:

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By such a Colony, many families, who would otherwise starve, will be provided for, and made masters of house and lands: the people in Great Britain to whom these...families were a burden, will be relieved.

Which statement describes the effect of this quotation by James Oglethorpe?

a. A large number of debtors decided to settle in Georgia.

b. Cash-crop agriculture expanded because new colonists needed to make large profits.

c. Colonists in Georgia relied heavily on slave labor to control large plantations.

d. Indentured servitude allowed poor Germans the opportunity to move to the Americas.

James Oglethorpe was a military leader, social reformer and visionary, who established the colony of Georgia.

The statement that describes the effect of this quotation by James Oglethorpe is that indentured servitude allowed poor Germans the opportunity to move to the Americas.

Indentured servitude is a form of contract between two individuals, whereby an individual works for another individual so as to move to America and not for money. It was like a barter system.