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☆☆☆☆☆The original purpose of the Jamestown colony was to make money for the Virginia Company.
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.
The Headright system began in the US state of Virginia.
The Headright system tried to solve the labor shortage problem. It was also a way to attract new colonists. Immigrant colonists were given one headright and could receive one more for each passage they paid for an additional immigrant.
The Headright system also led to too much distribution of land, increasing the tension between the Native Americans and the colonists. It also let to the increase of indentured servitude and slavery.
In the beginning, there was not much people who were willing to work for wages in Chesapeake society which is why indentured servants were brought from England. They became the backbone of the colony.
they sold other Africans to slave traders
The West African tribes, waged war with each other in order to raid and captured people from rival tribes which they then transported to the coast and sold to slave traders. It was a lucrative business for them and made the coastal tribes very rich and powerful.
Growing and selling tobacco
By becoming indentured servants
They believed that he and his men were gods, sent from heaven.
fishermen
that improved diets from new food sources.
That it improved diets from new food sources
Objects such as wool blankets and skills such as horsemanship among plains Indian Tribes are examples of the Colombian exchange causing cultural changes.
Cultural Change
cultural change
furs
Chattel slaves are individuals treated as complete property, to be bought and sold.
