How did the need for defense motivate the founding of the Georgia Colony?

The British needed to protect the profitable South Carolina Colony from the Spanish in Florida.

The British needed to protect the profitable South Carolina Colony from the French in Louisiana.

Georgia was founded on Cherokee land in order to force the Cherokee to move far away from the other colonies.

Georgia was founded on disputed territory in order to force French trappers to move out of the land Britain claimed.

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Answer:

one of three reasons for Georgia's founding; colony was to serve as a defensive buffer between Spanish Florida and the successful English colony of South Carolina.

Explanation:

James Oglethorpe and the trustees hoped to bring debtors and England's worthy poor to the colony to begin new lives.