(01.05 mc) how did the virginia company reshape the colony's development? it instituted the headright system, giving 50 acres of
land to each colonist who paid for his own or another's passage. it required all settlers to grow tobacco, a highly profitable crop. it gave control back to the king, who straightened out the colony's problems. it created an executive committee that really ran the colony and a committee of colonists who thought they were running it.
It instituted the headright system, giving 50 acres of land to each colonist who paid for his own or another's passage.
Explanation:
The headright system was a system that was created in 1618 in Jamestown, Virginia. Under this system, new settlers that arrived to Virginia by paying their own way were given 50 acres of land. This was an incentive designed to attract new settlers to the region due to the labor shortage that the colony faced. This system was eventually expanded, and could be found in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Maryland.
The British had passed the the Intolerable/Coercive acts, which called for higher taxes on the colonies, troops were to be allowed access housing in colonists houses, etc.
