Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Elizabethan Society and Exploration.
A business entity where different stocks can be bought and owned by multiple shareholders, which helped spread the financial risk of colonisation.
Joint-Stock Company appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Early Elizabethan England, especially Elizabethan Society and Exploration and Colonisation of Virginia.
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