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09/01 Bellringer 5+ sentences
http://ghhsapush.com/bellringersIndentured servitude was a labor system whereby young people paid for their passage to the New World by working for an employer for a certain number of years. It was widely employed in the 18th century in the British colonies in North America and elsewhere.
What might would motivate a person to sell themselves into indentured servitude?
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British colonists came
to America for a wide
variety of reasons:• escape poverty, gain wealth, or gain land • religious freedom & to flee religious persecution • escape violence during the English Civil WarAs a result, British colonies were very different from each other & were never
very unified
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1607 Jamestown first permanent British colony in America (Chesapeake Bay, Virginia)
Joint-stock company called the Virginia Company
Looking for gold so they did not prepare to stay long in America; They did not plant crops & faced starvation
John Smith took control & forced settlers
to farm
“He who will not work, will not eat”
Located on a swamp
Led to outbreaks of disease among colonists
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Powhatan Indians
Colonist and natives had an uneasy relationship
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No gold was found so…colonist had to find another way to make
money
1612, John Rolfe = tobacco as a cash crop
Tobacco = $ so…
…more land cleared…plantations…workforce
Due to the success of tobacco,
the Jamestown settlement expanded into the Virginia colony
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Indentured servants1618 Headright System gave 50 acres to anyone
who brought an indentured servant to America
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African slaves first brought in
1619
African slaves were
transported from Africa to
America on slave ships across the
“Middle Passage”
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In 1619, Virginians formed the House of Burgesses which was the first legislative
assembly in America
Virginia was a royal colony…the governor was chosen by the king, but the H of B made the important decisions
As the Virginia colony grew, it needed government.
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Elected leaders were usually rich and did not truly represent poor farmers in the colony
Poor farmers, led by Nathaniel Bacon, blamed Virginia’s governor for not protecting them & started a rebellion
Bacon’s Rebellion proved to rich Virginians that slaves were better than indentured servants
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The colonists who first settled in
New England came for religious reasons
Separatists and Puritans
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Separatists = “Pilgrims”Plymouth colony (1620)
Mayflower Compactthe first example of
self-government in America
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Pilgrims faced disease & hungerReceived help from local
natives like Squanto
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1630 Puritans created colony of Massachusetts
John Winthrop
Boston should be a “city on a hill”