years after the play was performed the colony sent its first small shipment of tobacco to London. By 1620 the production of tobacco grew enormously. The first Africans were brought to Virginia as indentured servants just as the white men were‚ but the land owners in Virginia didn’t want a lot of African servants because they wanted to build a new England in Virginia and planned on staying there with their families and didn’t want a significant amount of blacks in their community. From 1619-1650 only 2
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A number of the colonists who went to Jamestown were sons of landed English gentry. At that particular time‚ England had little to offer later-born sons of nobles‚ who would inherit neither titles nor lands. These gentlemen brought household servants with them as though they were going to be able to re-establish the lifestyles they had in England in the New World. Neither the gentlemen nor their butlers and footmen had any idea how to build houses‚ how to plant and cultivate crops‚ etc. Meanwhile
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Indentured Servants Letter The four letters I have read are different in their own significant way in 1622 Wessell Webling writes about a promise to goods for being an apprentice. The presents are house‚ 50 acres of land for him and his heires‚ and assignes forever. For a three year term the offer wasn’t something to refuse. 1623 a year later Richard Frethorne describes hardships he had endured and how he went through the job description on board the line f hope and how his luck turned around.
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profit. As a result of all the focus being on profit‚ Virginia took a downfall and may have been destroyed without the help of Pocahontas. But‚ as a way of attracting people to the New World‚ Virginia offered men freedom if they would work as indentured servants for seven years‚ after which they would be able to purchase land and start a family. While both colonies established systems of self government‚ these styles of leadership and ruling were quite different. This shows that although the colonists
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America: Land Of Opportunity “We think of America as a land of opportunity”‚ and it was. Back between the 1600’s through 1774 America was a great place to start off fresh and move onto something new and exciting. Many people wanted to relocate to the America’s due to the great rumors‚ which it had lead on. Although there were many opportunities available in America‚ they were limited and were a struggle to succeed in for some. The new settlers of America came from many different backgrounds and
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colonists to arrive from England. Many white indentured servants were also very hopeful to move to aMerica and start their new lives after serving a set amount of time; soon to be released with either money or land to better their new life. However‚ this did not stand for the thousands of African Slaves imported to America who would have to serve all of the white colonists for life. Many times their children‚ grandchildren etc. would also be servants for life. This was no life of freedom of liberty
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APUSH Although New England and the Chesapeake region were both settled largely by people of English origin‚ but by 1700 the region had evolved into two distinct societies. This difference can be found from the very beginning of the colonies. The New England colonies were founded for pure religion; the Chesapeake colonies were originally founded during the great search for gold‚ and later continued as slave-supported plantation colonies. The New Englanders would become successful from their hard
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labor. If the cost of labor decreases‚ profits go up. So anyone that owned any plantation land was looking for the cheapest workers possible. At first‚ indentured servants were effective because they would work for five years free of charge as long as they were promised their freedom at the end of their time(Johnson 27). But eventually‚ indentured servants no longer were the best option and plantation owners looked to slaves. The first appearance of African slaves in America was in 1619 when a Dutch ship
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rich. They produced huge amounts of tobacco‚ and had a lot of indentured servants. The plantation owners had been the only lawmakers and voters in the colony. They passed laws in their own favor‚ but increased taxes for the farmers. They also protected Indian rights to maintain a prosperous fur trade. On the other hand‚ Piedmont farmers had been left with smaller‚ less productive tobacco farms. They had very few indentured servants. They had no power
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United States History DBQ During the 1700s‚ the regions of New England and the Chesapeake experienced dramatic changes and stimulated development due to the increase in immigration from Europe to this new world of the Americas. The immigrants that came to the New England colony differed in terms of reasons for coming and differences in ways of establishing a foundation for the society verses the Chesapeake colony. The differentiating motives‚ interactions between the natives‚ and the formation
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