In what way did the Virginia Charter shape the Jamestown colony?
A.
It prescribed the types of provisions that needed to be taken across the ocean, forestalling food shortages for the first few months.
B.
It stifled the colonists' economic independence by forcing them to use a coin minted
in England for their transactions with Indians.
C.
It specified how the Counsel members would provide leadership to the colony under the control of England and the Virginia Company.

D. It established rules about how much gold, silver, and copper the colonists were to supply to the Crown and the Virginia Company.