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crown colony a British colony whose administration and legislature is controlled by the Crown How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| By 1624, fed up with mismanagement and infighting that produced bankruptcy for the Virginia Company rather than a profitable economic enterprise, King James I revoked the charter he had granted the company and declared Virginia a crown colony answerable to him. The former British Crown Colony is still an economic hub and a free-trade zone, several years after reverting to Chinese rule in 1997. Differentiation between natives and others happened largely for practical reasons: as in 1898-99, when it was decided that the New Territory, being so different in all respects, could not be administered in the same way as the Crown Colony proper. |
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