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It was called a Land Grant, or Royal Grant.
The Virginia Polytechinc Institute and State University was founded in 1872 as a land grant military institute called the Virginia Argicultural and Mechainical College.
the system was called the headright system.
The headright system
The Virginia Company offered Jamestown a headright, a 50-acre land grant for anyone who could pay his or her way to the colony.
The Land Grant System was based on the federal government setting aside land for states to use for agricultural colleges. The land was set aside to be used for financing the cost for starting the colleges.
The Virginia Company developed the "headright" system to
The king didn’t grant land in Virginia. The London Company sent men to look for gold in 1607.
The French land grant system was called the seigneurial system. Under this system, large parcels of land were granted to seigneurs who would then distribute smaller plots to habitants. Seigneurs collected rents and taxes from habitants in exchange for protection and use of the land.
The Land Grant System was based on the federal government setting aside land for states to use for agricultural colleges. The land was set aside to be used for financing the cost for starting the colleges.
The Dutch land grant system was a government program that gifted land to individual people. These land gifts were usually in return for services to the government. Land grants were also used as incentives for people to develop unused land.