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A joint-stock company was:_____.

A) A charter
B) A document of laws
C) A group that financed expeditions for colonists
D) A colony in Virginia
E) A means of trade
(Colonial times)

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The answer is C) A group that financed expeditions for colonists. Granted a charter by King James I in 1606, the Virginia Company was a joint-stock company created to establish settlements in the New World.
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