Under the trustee regime, which policy did many colonists oppose?

• A. The ban on slavery and rum
• B. Equal land distribution
• C. Mandatory public schools
• D. Religious uniformity

Answer: (A)

Policies during the trustee period aimed to shape Georgia into a disciplined, morally guided colony, including a ban on slavery and on rum. This ban mattered because many colonists depended on enslaved labor to run plantations and on the rum trade to fuel commerce and profits. When these restrictions blocked such economic activities and limited personal economic choices, many settlers viewed them as infringing on their livelihoods and opportunities. The tension between the trustees’ moral reform goals and the colonists’ economic interests is what made that policy particularly unpopular, helping fuel resistance to trustee rule and contributing to the colony’s eventual shift away from that regime.