SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE MIDDLE COLONIES NEW YORK DELAWARE NEW JERSEY PENNSYLVANIA
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Elected by property holding males. But governors were appointed by the king.
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The proprietor was the effective ruler, although one ultimately responsible to the King.
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A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
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The king had direct control over the colony.
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Detailed explanation-1: -noun American History. 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.
Detailed explanation-2: -proprietary colony, in British American colonial history, a type of settlement dominating the period 1660–90, in which favourites of the British crown were awarded huge tracts of land in the New World to supervise and develop.
Detailed explanation-3: -Proprietary colonies in America were governed by a lord proprietor, who, holding authority by virtue of a royal charter, usually exercised that authority almost as an independent sovereign.
Detailed explanation-4: -PROPRIETARY COLONIES were grants of land in the form of a charter, or a license to rule, for individuals or groups. They were used to settle areas rapidly with British subjects at the proprietors’ expense during the costly settlement years.