By such a colony, many families, who would otherwise starve, will be provided for, and made masters of house and lands: the people in great britain to whom were a burden, will be relieved. which statement describes the effect of this quotation by james oglethorpe? (4 points) a large number of debtors decided to settle in georgia. cash-crop agriculture expanded because new colonists needed to make large profits. colonists in georgia relied heavily on slave labor to control large plantations. indentured servitude allowed poor germans the opportunity to move to the americas.