USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -colony Add to list Share. A colony is a group of people who settle in a new place but keep ties to their homeland.

Detailed explanation-2: -A colony is a group of people who inhabit a foreign territory but maintain ties to their parent country.

Detailed explanation-3: -A colony is a group of people from one country who build a settlement in another territory, or land. They claim the new land for the original country, and the original country keeps some control over the colony. The settlement itself is also called a colony. The practice of setting up colonies is called colonialism.

Detailed explanation-4: -Therefore, all colonial properties were partitioned by royal charter into one of four types: proprietary, royal, joint stock, or covenant. Under the proprietary system, individuals or companies were granted commercial charters by the monarchs of the Kingdom of England to establish colonies.

Detailed explanation-5: -A colony is a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.