Malcontents were a group of colonists who payed their way to Georgia. Since they could pay for themselves, they got 500 acres of land. 50 acres was given to the people who couldn’t pay there way to the colony. These Malcontents wanted slavery and alcohol ban to be lifted. They kept bothering James Oglethorpe for 10 years straight about lifting the bans of slavery, alcohol and land ownership. When James Oglethorpe finally left the colony, the Trustees handed the colony back to King George 2. When the trustees did this King George the two were very mad because they gave him the colony a year before the charter expired.
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