Chartered Companies like the Massachusetts Bay Company and Hudson's Bay Company were given the right to a total monopoly on trade in a region, and this monopoly was (for economic reasons) often reinforced by military force. Notably, this was not because they supplied monarchs with exotic materials, but principally for Mercantalist purposes (although the former also played a role).
Benjamin Franklin believes that there should be unity
between the states in the US. He believes that if there is unity in the states
as well as to be able to work with Great Britain in defeating the French and
India in war.
