SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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built large mansions to grow crops
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transported the poor from England to Georgia
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were found to be guilty of stealing from colonial governments
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the king granted permission to own and govern a colony
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Detailed explanation-1: -Under the proprietary system, individuals or companies were granted commercial charters by the monarchs of the Kingdom of England to establish colonies. These proprietors then selected the governors and other officials in the colony.
Detailed explanation-2: -History of the Penn Proprietorship (1681-1776) William Penn, a Quaker, served as governor and proprietor of the colony from 1681 to 1718.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Lords Proprietors were the eight Englishmen to whom King Charles II granted, by the Carolina charters of 1663 and 1665, the joint ownership of a tract of land in the New World called “Carolina.” All of these men either had remained loyal to the Crown or had aided Charles’s restoration to the English throne.
Detailed explanation-4: -By the time of the American Revolution, only Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania remained as proprietary colonies, none of which were hot beds of rebellion.
Detailed explanation-5: -A proprietary charter was granted to an individual as a direct result of their relationship with the king. This would result in the individual, or Lord Proprietor, governing the colony in their own way but still under the flag of the mother country.