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What did the Virginia Company hope to accomplish by sending ships to America?

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They hoped to establish a colony in order to make a profit.

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They hoped to make profits by finding gold and other natural resources or by finding the trade route to Asia. They also hoped to discover the fate of he lost colony.
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