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    paying tree planters on a piece-rate system? On a flat-rate system? Advantages of the piece rate system: The tree planters’ work hard because they are paid a certain amount of money on each piece of tree planted. The experienced tree planter plants up to 1300 seedlings because they do not take a lunch break and keep on working in order to make good money. Each planter is assigned by a piece of land so that they work properly and do not socialize with one another and waste time. Planters usually plant

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    On an 18th century British plantation there was constant battle between slaves and planters‚ for the slaves needed to keep their cultural forms alive. Harsh treatment of slaves by the planter‚ often forced slaves to resort to various forms of resistance in order to keep their cultural forms alive. While the slaves of the plantation were able outsmart the planter at times‚ the planter also devised wicked schemes that made life for slaves extremely difficult. Cultural forms practiced by African

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    In 1729 it split into North and South Carolina. North Carolina: Populated by migrants from Virginia‚ it developed a reputation for democratic independence. The chief export crops were tobacco and timber products. South Carolina; First populated by planters who brought slaves with them from Barbados in the West Indies. Warring Indian tribes sold some captivis to whites as slaves. • Plantations produced tropical crops such as rice and indigo. • The prosperous port of Charleston had an aristocratic and

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    Wa’Nyah Tucker 11A September 24‚ 2012 DBQ ESSAY Question: Although New England and the Chesapeake region were both settled largely by of English origin‚ by 1700 the region had evolved into two different societies. Why did this difference in development occur? Thesis Statement: When talking about New England and the Chesapeake region‚ you have to consider the differences in motives and geography. Consider economic situations (reasons for settling where they did‚ reasons why they came to

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    Salt and Grass Growth

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    Abstract This scientific paper will answer questions on the effects of salt on grass growth. In the winter‚ many people place a salt compound on their driveways to melt snow and ice that has accumulated. The following spring‚ it is noticed that the edges of the driveway does not have any grass growing and grass a little further from the driveway is growing slower than the rest of the lawn. It will be determined if grass growth is negatively impacted in the spring after a winter of salt compound

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    AP U.S History Tenochtitlan ID: The ancient Aztec capital in about the 1325 and was demolished by the Spaniards in 1521. SIG: Tenochtitlan was one of the largest cities in the world in 1521. It was a very wealthy city with powerful economics‚ politics‚ and religions. Matrilineal ID: The inheritance one receives through the female line of ancestors. SIG: The pattern of culture in Lenape or modern day Delaware were fishing and other types of farming which were matrilineal. Many Native American

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    INTRODUCTION The introduction of Indian contractual workers by individual planters during the British period started between 1820 and early 1830s. Arrival registers of the Indian Immigration Archives (MGI) testify that labourers from the Indian Peninsula disembarked in Mauritius as from 1842 and originated from Colombo‚ Cochin‚ Pondicherry‚ Madras and Calcutta. These experimental importations of local planters were an evident means of overcoming the acute shortage of labour arising in the colony

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    rent them out to planters for a year at a time‚ requiring the planters to take responsibility for the workers’ food‚ shelter‚ and health. With the introduction of marketable tobacco‚ however‚ demand for labor skyrocketed. Private investors who‚ alongside the company‚ had shipped servants at their own expense continued to do so while the company rid itself of its role as rental agent. Instead‚ it sold servants directly to planters at a price based on the cost of passage. Planters‚ mariners‚ and merchants

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    Summer 2013 Key Vocabulary from Colonial Period 11th Grade APUSH New World Beginnings: 1. Black Legend: Term used to describe the belief that the Spanish only killed‚ tortured‚ and stole in the Americas while doing nothing good. Spaniards were given the image of cruel and intolerant human being. This term was made popular mostly by the works of Julian Juderias‚ in his book “La Leyenda Negra”‚ translated as “The Black Legend”. This definition exemplifies the mistreatment of Spain and

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    impact of free villages

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    debts Planters had borrowed extensively from British merchants and were unable to repay thaeir loans because of low profits. Many continued to borrow in an attempt to revive their plantations. However‚ banks and merchant houses were more skeptical about giving loans to West Indian planters. The Bank of British Guiana and the Planters’ Bank of Jamaica did not want to use estates as security for loans anymore and the Colonial Bank of the West Indies did not make any substantial loans to planters.

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