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Case Study: The Virginia Company

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The Virginia Company was founded with a purpose to establish a colony for the English in hopes of achieving wealth, discovering a passage for trade, and preventing the spread of Spanish colonies. They also wanted to stop Spanish Catholicism and spread the Christian religion to the natives. The Virginia Company promised the Englishmen land and rights to gain investors, and soon over 1000 investors bought shares in the company. The instructions were a survival guide, telling the colonist how to avoid attacks based off of what happened to the French and Spanish. The instructions gave the colonist a strategy to follow, each having importance. However, if one goal was to obtain mineral wealth, then splitting the men up and having 40 of them

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