alleryStart learning →What did the London Company instruct its Virginia governor to do in 1618?
ASend all colony revenue back to London
BLet free inhabitants elect representatives
CAppoint a council drawn from the gentry
DBar the colonists from owning any land
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Let free inhabitants elect representatives
1. Under the company charters, full governmental authority had rested with the companies in England.
2. The first break in that rule came from the London Company itself.
3. In 1618 it instructed its appointed governor that free inhabitants should elect representatives.
4. Those representatives joined the governor and an appointive council in passing ordinances.
5. From then on it was generally accepted that colonists had a right to share in their own government.
_Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section FOREIGN RULE BREAKS DOWN_
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