<P> At first, South Carolina was politically divided . Its ethnic makeup included the original settlers (a group of rich, slave - owning English settlers from the island of Barbados) and Huguenots, a French - speaking community of Protestants . Nearly continuous frontier warfare during the era of King William's War and Queen Anne's War drove economic and political wedges between merchants and planters . The disaster of the 1715 Yamasee War threatened the colony's viability and set off a decade of political turmoil . By 1729, the proprietary government had collapsed, and the Proprietors sold both colonies back to the British crown . </P> <P> North Carolina had the smallest upper - class . The richest 10 percent owned about 40 percent of all land, compared to 50 to 60 percent in neighboring Virginia and South Carolina . There were no cities of any size and very few towns, so there was scarcely an urban middle class at all . Heavily rural North Carolina was dominated by subsistence farmers with small operations . In addition, one fourth of the whites had no land at all . </P> <P> British Member of Parliament James Oglethorpe established the Georgia Colony in 1733 as a solution to two problems . At that time, tension was high between Spain and Great Britain, and the British feared that Spanish Florida was threatening the British Carolinas . Oglethorpe decided to establish a colony in the contested border region of Georgia and to populate it with debtors who would otherwise have been imprisoned according to standard British practice . This plan would both rid Great Britain of its undesirable elements and provide her with a base from which to attack Florida . The first colonists arrived in 1733 . </P> <P> Georgia was established on strict moralistic principles . Slavery was officially forbidden, as were alcohol and other forms of immorality . However, the reality of the colony was far different . The colonists rejected a moralistic lifestyle and complained that their colony could not compete economically with the Carolina rice plantations . Georgia initially failed to prosper, but eventually the restrictions were lifted, slavery was allowed, and it became as prosperous as the Carolinas . The colony of Georgia never had an established religion; it consisted of people of various faiths . </P>

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