New Zealand Company

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/new-zealand-company

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. When was New Zealand Company built?1837 (as the New Zealand Association, later New Zealand Company)
2. What is the royal charter granted?1840
3. What is the peak operational efficiency?Circa 1841
4. What was the New Zealand Company and why did it want to build a new town?The New Zealand Company was a group that planned to create new towns in New Zealand using a system called systematic colonization. They wanted to bring people from Britain and set up a society similar to England.
5. How did the New Zealand Company plan to get people to move to New Zealand?They sold land at a price high enough to keep workers from buying it but low enough for people to save and buy. The money from land sales was used to pay for people to travel to New Zealand.

Systematic Colonisation: A theoretical model for establishing colonies, emphasizing planned land sales and financed emigration to create a structured society.
Sufficient Price: Wakefield's concept of land pricing in colonies, intended to fund immigration while preventing premature land speculation by labourers.
Royal Charter: An official decree from the sovereign granting specific rights, privileges, or powers to an organization or individual.
Colonial Enterprise: Business ventures undertaken with the aim of establishing control over and exploiting resources in a foreign territory.