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The Commerce Compromise addressed the conflict between Northern businessmen and Southern plantation owners over the issue of tariffs.
The king is the only person who could grant a charter.
In order to make money in pacific territories and nations.
American imperialism
From joint-stock companies. Joint-stock companies were just a bunch of English businessmen joining together to invest in a settlement in the New World. If the colony failed, the men would only lose what they had invested. If it succeeded, the profits would be split up among the men equally.