SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE MIDDLE COLONIES NEW YORK DELAWARE NEW JERSEY PENNSYLVANIA
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They needed more money from the colonists
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They need more people to move to New Jersey
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They had to focus their time and energy on trade and the concepts of a flouring market economy
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King Charles II owed William Penn’s father a favor
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Detailed explanation-1: -The goal of the document was to entice more settlers to farm in New Jersey, so that the two proprietors could earn more profit by collecting quit-rents, annual fees paid on granted lands. To encourage such settlement, they allowed religious freedom, which was not available underneath the English government.
Detailed explanation-2: -A concession agreement is a contract that gives a company the right to operate a specific business within a government’s jurisdiction or on another firm’s property, subject to particular terms.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Concessions and Agreements of 1677, signed by William Penn and 150 others, mostly Quakers, established West Jersey organization and civil liberties. In that sense the document is a combination of Constitution and Bill of Rights similar to that of the U.S. but it also deals with some day-to-day detailed regulations.
Detailed explanation-4: -3 March 1677 – West Jersey’s Concessions and Agreements, drafted in 1676 by Edward Byllynge and signed by the proprietors and inhabitants, sets forth a framework of government and fundamental laws of the colony.
Detailed explanation-5: -On September 30, 2009, New Jersey became an Agreement State and assumed responsibility for Part 40 licenses within its borders, and also has jurisdiction over x-ray equipment, naturally occurring radioactive materials, and certain radioactive materials that are not produced in a reactor.