A charter colony is a colony that was started with a charter. A charter is permission from the King or Queen to start a colony.
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Spain did not give Moses Austin permission to start a colony in Texas. It simply gave him 4,428 acres in 1821.
He granted him a charter in 1732
The Massachusetts colony thing
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A document giving permission to start a colony is a charter Sources: I just learned about this in school.
A charter is a document from a monarch that gives permission to the holder to start a colony. Queen Elizabeth granted a charter to Sir Walter Raleigh on March 25, 1584, giving permission to start a colony in Virginia.
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Spain did not give Moses Austin permission to start a colony in Texas. It simply gave him 4,428 acres in 1821.
A charter colony is a colony that was started with a charter. A charter is permission from the King or Queen to start a colony.
To get money from the new colony! :)
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In the first settlements in "The New World" (the Americas), in order to set up a colony, the king or queen of your country had to provide a charter. This is a legal document granting certain rights to a person or company.
John A. Shutter
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Queen Elizabeth the first