Examples of charter in the following topics:
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- Britain's 13 North American colonies reflected different structures of government: provincial, proprietary, and charter.
- By 1776, Britain had evolved three different forms of government for its North American colonies: provincial, proprietary, and charter.
- Massachusetts began as a charter colony in 1684 but became a provincial colony in 1691.
- In a charter colony, Britain granted a charter to the colonial government establishing the rules under which the colony was to be governed.
- The charters of Rhode Island and Connecticut granted the colonists significantly more political liberty than other colonies.
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- The Province of Georgia was chartered as a proprietary colony in 1733 and was the last of the 13 original British colonies.
- George II, for whom the colony was named, granted the colony's corporate charter to General James Oglethorpe in 1732.
- The original charter specified the colony as the area between the Savannah and Altamaha rivers, up to their headwaters on the Ocmulgee River, and then extending westward "sea to sea."
- The area within the charter had previously been part of the original grant of the Province of Carolina, which was closely linked to Georgia.
- Oglethorpe imagined a province populated by "sturdy farmers" that could guard the border and because of this, the colony's charter prohibited slavery.
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- 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.
- Most of the colonies were slow to make profits, however, and the English investors often turned over their colonial charters to the settlers.
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- Prior to 1776 there were three forms of colonial government: provincial, proprietary, and charter.
- The charter colonies included Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
- The Massachusetts charter was revoked in 1684 and replaced by a provincial charter in 1691.
- Charter governments were political corporations created by letters patent which gave the grantees control of the land and the powers of legislative government.
- The essential difference between the charter colonies and the proprietory and provincal colonies was that property-owning men in the charter colonies could elect their own governors.
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- The Second Bank of the United States was chartered in 1816, five years after the First Bank of the United States lost its own charter.
- During this time, Maryland adopted a policy to restrict banks by placing a tax on any bank that was not chartered by the state legislature.
- The Whigs and anti-Jackson National Republicans hoped they would gain enough seats in Congress during the election of 1836 to override a second Jackson veto, thereby extending the Bank's charter.
- However, their strategy was not successful, and their coalition still lacked the necessary majority in Congress following the election to extend the Bank's charter.
- In 1836, the Bank's charter was allowed to expire.
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- The colonies were originally chartered to compete in the race for colonies in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries.
- George Calvert received a charter from King Charles I to found the colony of Maryland in 1634.
- The next major development in the history of the Southern Colonies was the Province of Carolina, originally chartered in 1629.
- Charles I eventually granted proprietary charters to the Plymouth Company and the London Company.
- The 1732 charter created Georgia as a buffer state to protect the prosperous South Carolina from Spanish Florida, and required that debtors be shipped to free space in English jails.
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- He had revoked the Massachusetts Bay Colony charter in 1684 after its Puritan rulers refused to act on his demands to streamline the administration of the small colonies and bring them more closely under the crown's control.
- He disregarded local representation, denied the validity of existing land titles in Massachusetts (which had been dependent on the old charter), restricted town meetings, and actively promoted the Church of England in largely Puritan regions.
- The Massachusetts agents then petitioned the new monarchs and the Lords of Trade (who oversaw colonial affairs) for restoration of the Massachusetts charter.
- Plymouth had never had a royal charter, and Massachusetts' had been legally vacated.
- Agents for both colonies worked in England to rectify the charter issues.
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- The Dutch colony of New Netherland was captured by the British and chartered by the Duke of York, who later became James II of England.
- The New Netherland claim included western parts of present-day Massachusetts, putting the new province in conflict with the Massachusetts charter.
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- The Second Bank of the United States, chartered in 1816, played a major role in the controversies of this period.
- Its role as the sole depository of the federal government's revenues also made it a political target of banks chartered by the individual states.
- President Andrew Jackson strongly opposed the renewal of the Second Bank's charter, which was scheduled for 1836, and built a successful platform for the election of 1832 around this issue.
- The bank shouldered the majority of the blame for this crisis and subsequently lost its charter in 1836.
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- The Quaker colony of Pennsylvania emphasized freedom of religion through its Charter of Privileges.
- The Charter of Privileges extended religious freedom to all monotheists, and government was initially open to all Christians.
- The Charter of Privileges also mandated fair dealings with Native Americans.