SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
COLONIES OF FRANCE ENGLAND
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Because the proprietors ran out of funds to manage their lands.
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Because the king wanted to exert greater control over the colonies.
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Social tensions made it impossible for proprietors to govern most colonies effectively.
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The economic risk proved to be too much for the proprietors of each colony.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why did many proprietary colonies become royal colonies by the late 17th century? Because the proprietors ran out of funds to manage their lands.
Detailed explanation-2: -Some colonies became royal by the lack of proprietary governments’ ability to provide stability. North and South Carolina, for instance, started out as one colony under eight proprietors.
Detailed explanation-3: -Proprietary colonies were granted by the king to a proprietor or head of a proprietary family, who owned the colony by title and governed it as he saw fit. Royal colonies were controlled by the king through his representative, the royal governor.
Detailed explanation-4: -any of certain colonies, as Maryland and Pennsylvania, that were granted to an individual or group by the British crown and that were granted full rights of self-government.