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☆☆☆☆☆The original purpose of the Jamestown colony was to make money for the Virginia Company.
Diseases
Results of the French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years War, included:
- Increased taxes on the American colonists to pay for the war
- England acquired the former French territories in Canada and owned all the land from the Atlantic Coast to the Mississippi river.
- French from Acadia were expelled and migrated to Louisiana, forming the Cajun culture
- settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains was forbidden by the Crown
- England acquired formerly French territory in the Caribbean and in India.
- King George III taxed American colonists to pay for the war.
- King George III would not let colonists settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Wood was the most common material in colonial times.
The death of many servants
They made items the colonists needed.
headright system
If gave a chance to better their lives (Apex)
it increased the need for land.
To put in order and find connections between them.
fishermen
They had few rights under their contract.
Chattel slaves are individuals treated as complete property, to be bought and sold.
south carolina
Before Columbus, the parasites that cause malaria were rampant in Eurasia and Africa but unknown in the Americas. Transported in the bodies of sailors, malaria may have crossed the ocean as early as Columbus's second voyage. Yellow fever, malaria's frequent companion, soon followed. The New World was the loss of 90 percent of the native population due to diseases that they never had seen before. There had been about 80 million and only around 720,000 were left. The land appeared to be empty.
From the Old World to the New:
The deadly smallpox, malaria, yellow fever, gonorrhea, chlamydia, common cold, measles, influenza, chickenpox all were mostly fatal as the natives had no natural immunity to these.
being an indentured servant
keeping livestock allowed many hunters to do other things
