USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A charter is a WRITTEN DOCUMENT GRANTING LAND AND THE AUTHORITY TO SET-UP/ESTABLISH COLONIAL GOVERNMENTS. 8. The Mayflower Compact was the first plan of SELF-GOVERNMENT in the English colonies.

Detailed explanation-2: -A charter is a document that gives colonies the legal rights to exist. Charters can bestow certain rights on a town, city, university, or other institution. Colonial charters were approved when the king gave a grant of exclusive powers for the governance of land to proprietors or a settlement company.

Detailed explanation-3: -charter, a document granting certain specified rights, powers, privileges, or functions from the sovereign power of a state to an individual, corporation, city, or other unit of local organization.

Detailed explanation-4: -James Oglethorpe received a charter from George II for a colony where debtors and poor people could make a fresh start. In Britain, debtors-those who had debts-could be imprisoned if they were unable to pay what they owed.

Detailed explanation-5: -A colony is a group of people who inhabit a foreign territory but maintain ties to their parent country.