How did Dutch and English traders fund colonies?A.They got money from the king.B.They made settlers pay to move there.C.They formed joint stock companies.D.They sold land.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

5. What is a joint stock company and how did the British crown use such charters to stimulate settlement?

1. Write the True or False answer. 5 Marks(a) Spain established new colonies in Americas, such as Mexico and Peru.(b) The Netherlands pioneered an advanced trading system for investing inoversea trade.(c) By 1732, Britain’s 15 colonies stretched along the Eastern Coast fromNew Hampshire in the north, to Georgia in the south.(d) Sugar cane thrived in Caribbean weather and was used to create refinedsugar, molasses and rum.(e) Many criminal prisoners sent from Britain as plantation labour died ofdiseases such as yellow fever or plague.Answer(a)________(b)________(c)________(d)_______(e)________

The Jamestown settlers made a profit for their investors by growing...

In establishing the Jamestown settlement, King James I permitted Englanders to become a member of the Virginia Company of London, which allowed settlers to eventually have a portion of their own land in the New World. _____________ were investors who had the money to buy shares in the VCL but did not leave England, while _______________ were required to work for a predetermined number of years in exchange for housing, clothing, and food.AnswersAiGroup of answer choicesAdventurers, PlantersPuritans, PlantersPlanters, AdventurersPuritans, Adventurers

Mercantilism and Joint-Stock Companies"We let it be known that as the prosperity of the United Netherlands is principally a result of our shipping trade and commerce that has undergone praiseworthy increases from time to time and that the Netherlands have been involved therewith since the distant past, not only with neighbouring kingdoms and regions, but also with those located further away than these, in Europe, Asia and Africa.Over the past decade several prominent merchants from the abovementioned countries commenced praiseworthy shipping trade and commerce with the East Indies. These followers of the mercantile trade and commerce in foreign lands have, at great cost, effort and difficulties, founded a company in the City of Amsterdam, a commendable shipping enterprise trading in the East Indies....All of the residents of these United Provinces shall be allowed to participate in this Company and to do so with as little or as great an amount of money as they choose."A Translation Of The Charter Of The Dutch Eastindies Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie Or Voc): Granted By The States General Of The United Netherlands, 20 March 1602. Peter Reynders (translator), Australasian Hydrographic Society (2009), page 1; 11.This passage best illustrates which of the following historical processes?Elimination ToolSelect one answerAThe Protestant Reformation and Catholic counter-reformation.BThe intellectual project known as the Enlightenment.CThe formation of the modern nation-state.DThe transition from feudalism to capitalism.