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They could not pay the voyage to come to America, or, they were imprisoned and wanted to pay off their debt.

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Q: Why did indentured servants came to America?
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Where did indentured servents from north America came from?

Indentured servants weren't from America, but were mainly English from England.


Which signers of the Declaration of Independence were indentured servants?

George Taylor came to America as an indentured servant and signed the declaration.Answernone. indentured servants were considered low people because they were all poorHe had to work to pay for his passage to America.


The first Africans who came to America were?

by boats, white people on boats.


By the end of the 1600s indentured servants who gained their freedom?

By the end of the 1600s, indentured servants were being given 25 acres of land, and their freedom. The first blacks that came to America in the 1610s were treated as indentured servants, and slavery was not decided on the basis.


What are three things about indentured servants?

Indentured servants paid off the cost of their voyage to the American colonies by working as unpaid labor for a period of time. Runaways would be hunted and returned. Between the 17th and 18th centuries, half of the white immigrants who came to America came as indentured servants.


How and why did the indentured servant and slaves come to america?

They came from many countries. Some countries are:IrelandScottlandEnglandIndiaAfricaThere are many more.


What Many people came to America as indentured servants which meant they?

paid for their voyage by working a set number of years.


The first africans who came to the us were?

Indentured Servants


Colonists who agreed to work for another in return for passage to America were called?

Indentured servants, also known as bondsmen and bondswomen.


Why did fewer indentured servants come to America in 1700s?

fewer came to the Americas because conditions in England began to improve


Who was the colonist who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years?

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How did the plantation system and lack of indentured servants affect the status of Africans in America?

The plantations system and the lack of indentured servants in America affected the status of Africans in America because Africans where slaves and the would work eternally unlike indentured servants who only worked temporarily.