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    interaction with Native Americans there. Why did the Native Americans of New Mexico revolt against the Spanish settlers? SECTION 3 Assessment (page 32) 1. For each term or name‚ write a sentence explaining its significance. -John Smith -Indentured servant -King Philip’s War -mercantilism -Jamestown -Puritan -William Penn -Navigation Acts -Joint-stock companies -John Winthrop -Quaker 2. Identify the

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    with the purchase of slaves. Finally‚ the religious boom of the Great Awakening and how it transformed many people social and physical environment. The criminals‚ rogues‚ and vagabonds that were all shipped across the Atlantic as indentured servants came to escape England. In England they were viewed down upon so coming to the New World was a great choice and as they

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    Matthew Ward‚ in his article “An Army of Servants: The Pennsylvania Regiment during the Seven Years’ War‚” discusses the provincial soldiers in Pennsylvania. His research brought him to the conclusion that a majority of the ranks of provincial soldiers in Pennsylvania were made up of indentured servants. Combining facts such as age‚ occupation‚ and birthplace‚ Ward paints a picture of the men who signed on as provincial

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    1607 by the Virginia London Company‚ their main crop like most of the other colonies where tobacco and indigo. Their most famous “government” was the House of Burgesses. And the colonists were composed of Planter’s‚ Slaves‚ Aristocrats‚ indentures servants‚ and a lot of slaves. North Carolina was another colony that was very similar to Virginia. It was founded by dissenters from Virginia and squatters in the year of 1653. Just like Virginia‚ the cash crop was tobacco and indigo‚ the exception being

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    and the developing of a sense of community among these people. The author mentions that in 1680 slavery was not very common in English colonies‚ later around 1700 this would change. One of the possible causes of it was the decrease of indentured servants in the colonies of Chesapeake and the Carolinas‚ in which the labor force was in high demand at that time. Captive Africans became easy to obtain due to the slave trading by merchants and ship owners in European countries. Europeans could purchase

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    farm‚ is presented with what he refers to as a great crisis. The details of this crisis are revealed as Peter becomes deeply involved in a manhunt for two escaped bondsmen‚ better known as indentured servants. Although only 12 years old‚ Peter volunteers to participate in the search for the escaped servants and finds himself facing physical perils as he and Mr. Shinn become separated during the search. Peter inadvertently finds one of the escapees‚ who just happens to be an 11 year old girl.

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    empires. Like every economic activity‚ it has changed over time. Earlier forms of plantation agriculture were associated with large disparities of wealth and income‚ foreign ownership and political influence‚ and exploitative social systems such as indentured labor and slavery. The history of the environmental‚ social and economic issues relating to plantation agriculture is covered in

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    very profound differences. The Chesapeake colony and the New England colony both migrated from England due to oppression. The Chesapeake colony consisted of second sons who could not inherit family heir-looms or money; it also consisted of indentured servants who did not have the proper skills to sustain a job in England. The New England colony consisted of Puritans who left England after Charles I took the throne and ordered England a strictly Anglican society. Although they were oppressed and both

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    in the early 1690 ’s. However‚ slaves were not first to work on the rice plantations; white indentured servants were. The servants did not last long because of the malaria carrying mosquitoes that infested the swamps‚ and African Americans were soon enlisted as slaves to work the plantation . The plantation owners saw two advantages to having African American slaves as opposed to the white servants. Some African Americans came to the colonies already in possession of the skills needed to cultivate

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    large family units‚ about 8-20 in each family. They had a long life span‚ the women aged up to 68 years and the men 70 years. They were helpful. In the Southern family‚ there was a gender imbalance‚ men were 6 to 1 woman‚ that is including the indentured servants. Their lifespan were men: 43 and women: 39. They had low birth rates‚ meaning 25% of infants died within 1 to 2 years of age and another 25% won’t live to be 20 years old. In the Middle family‚ they were not that large but similar to the

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