It will be highly conducive [beneficial] . . . that a regular colony of the said poor people be settled and established in the southern territories of Carolina.

–Charter of Georgia, 1732

According to the charter, the Georgia colony was founded

to provide a place for poor British citizens to live.
to raise funds to help impoverished people living in Britain.
to begin a system of mercantilism among Britain’s colonies.
to become one of the richest British colonies in North America.