Examples of Virginia Company in the following topics:
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- Jamestown was a settlement in the Colony of Virginia established by the Virginia Company of London in 1607.
- Simultaneously, however, Virginia was declared a "crown colony", meaning that charter was transferred from the Virginia Company to the Crown of England, making Jamestown a colony now run by the English monarchy.
- In 1624, King James revoked the Virginia Company's charter, and Virginia became a royal colony.
- With English demand for tobacco rising, Virginia had now found a way to support itself economically.
- Smith's map of Virginia from The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, 1624
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- James granted a proprietary charter to two competing branches of the Virginia Company: the Plymouth Company and the London Company.
- In 1606, each company organized expeditions to establish settlements within the area of their rights.
- Simultaneously, however, Virginia was declared a "crown colony," meaning the charter was transferred from the Virginia Company to the Crown of England, making Jamestown a colony now run by the English monarchy.
- In 1624, King James revoked the Virginia Company's charter, and Virginia became a royal colony.
- Virginia became the largest, most populous, and most important colony.
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- Financed by the Muscovy Company, Martin Frobisher set sail in 1576, seeking the Northwest Passage.
- Proprietors were appointed to found and govern settlements under mercantile charters granted to joint stock companies.
- The Plymouth Company was given the northern portions, and the London Company was given the southern portions.
- However, the London Virginia Company created the first successful English overseas settlements at Jamestown in 1607.
- This map illustrates the 1606 grants by James I to the London and Plymouth companies.
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- The Southern Colonies, including Maryland, the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia were established during the 16th and 17th centuries.
- At the time, they consisted of South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, and Georgia; their historical names were the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, the Province of Carolina, and the Province of Georgia.
- The Colony of Virginia existed briefly during the 16th century and then continuously from 1607 until the American Revolution.
- The name "Virginia" was first applied by Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth I in 1584, when Raleigh established a colony on the island of Roanoke off the coast of Virginia.
- Charles I eventually granted proprietary charters to the Plymouth Company and the London Company.
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- Other colonies, such as Virginia, were primarily founded as business ventures.
- Charter companies played an important role in England's success at colonizing what would become the United States.
- Charter companies were made up of groups of stockholders, usually merchants and wealthy landowners, who sought personal economic gain and, in some cases, wanted to advance England's national goals.
- While the private sector financed the companies, the King provided each project with a charter or grant conferring economic rights and political and judicial authority.
- Some necessities and virtually all luxuries were imported to the few small cities and the larger plantations of South Carolina and Virginia; in return, raw materials such as for tobacco, rice, and indigo were exported.
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- The Chesapeake Bay area included Maryland, first settled in 1634, and Virginia, with Jamestown established in 1607.
- The first democratically elected government was the Virginia House of Burgesses, which was first convened in 1619.
- By 1750 the population of Virginia had skyrocketed to 450,000 and was almost evenly divided between African and European peoples.
- Homann drew this map in response to Virginia Lieutenant-Governor Alexander Spotswood's plan to settled the little known interior of Virginia with German immigrants.
- Christanna also acted as the headquarters of the Virginia Indian Company, a stock venture founded in 1714 with the intention of trading with indigenous groups in the interior.
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- On March 25–28, 1785, delegates from Virginia and Maryland met at George Washington's estate in Mount Vernon, Virginia.
- Thomas Jenifer, and Thomas Stone of Maryland; and Alexander Henderson and George Mason of Virginia.
- James Madison and Edmund Randolph were also appointed as Virginia delegates but Virginia Governor Patrick Henry failed to inform them in time, so they were unable to attend.
- These issues were not addressed directly by the Articles of Confederation, which regulated the 13 largely independent states at the time, nor by the authorization of the Potomac Company a year earlier, which was to regulate the Potomac above the Great Falls.
- Ratified by both Maryland and Virginia, it declared the Potomac, which was under Maryland's sole jurisdiction, to be a common waterway for use by Virginia as well.
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- Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising in Virginia in 1676 against the colonial Governor's friendly policies toward Native Americans.
- Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony in North America, led by a 29-year-old planter, Nathaniel Bacon .
- About a thousand Virginians rose (including former indentured servants, poor whites, and poor blacks) because they resented Virginia Governor William Berkeley's friendly policies towards the Native Americans.
- In 1674 a group of yeomen farmers on the Virginia frontier demanded that Native Americans living on treaty-protected lands be driven out or killed.
- Nathaniel Bacon led an uprising against Virginia Governor William Berkeley in 1676.
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- Prior to the Annapolis Convention and the 1787 Philadelphia convention that saw the drafting of the United States Constitution, delegates from Virginia and Maryland met at George Washington's home at Mount Vernon, Virginia in March 1785.
- These issues were not addressed directly by the Articles of Confederation, which regulated the thirteen largely independent American states at the time, nor by the authorization of the Potomac Company a year earlier which was to regulate the Potomac above the Great Falls.
- The report contained thirteen proposals known as the Mount Vernon Compact, ratified by both Maryland and Virginia.
- It declared the Potomac, which was under Maryland's sole jurisdiction, to be a common waterway for use by Virginia as well.
- He had little to show for efforts to get Virginia's delegates in the Continental Congress to seek expanded powers to deal with trade issues.
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- The Comstock Lode was the first major U.S. discovery of silver ore, located in what is now Virginia City, Nevada in 1857.
- The Comstock Lode was the first major U.S. discovery of silver ore, located in what is now Virginia City, Nevada, on the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, a peak in the Virginia Range.
- Gold was discovered in this region—the Gold Canyon—in the spring of 1850 by a company of Mormon emigrants who were part of the Mormon Battalion.