Question

James Oglethorpe MOST LIKELY came up with idea to move English debtors to his colony in the New World because he A) needed many men to come and work on the land in his new colony. Eliminate B) wanted his new colony to be made entirely of people from England. C) could not find anyone else who was willing to move to the new place. D) did not want them to suffer in the poor conditions of English prisons.

Answer 1

The correct answer should be D. did not want them to suffer in the poor conditions of English prisons

His colony was imagined as a place for debtors where they could be free of their debts and would not go to prison.

Answer 2

Correct answer choice is :

D) Did not want them to suffer in the poor conditions of English prisons.

Explanation:

James Oglethorpe was born in Surrey, the descendant of Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe of Westbrook Place, Godalming, and his lady Eleanor Lady Oglethorpe. He enrolled Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1714, but in the same year left to rejoin the army of Prince Eugene of Savoy. By the order of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough he enhanced aide-de-camp to the ruler, and as the Austro Turkish War of 1716–18 he worked with contrast in the operations against the Turks.