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☆☆☆☆☆The term Middle Passage refers to the transportation of the African people from Africa to the new world as part of the Atlantic slave trade, as it was the middle portion of the triangular trade voyage, also carrying molasses, timber and raw materials to Europe, and manufactured goods back to Africa. The Middle Passage refers to the part of the trade where Africans, densely packed onto ships, were transported across the Atlantic to the West Indies.
The original purpose of the Jamestown colony was to make money for the Virginia Company.
A Promise To Give Land to People Who Settled In Virginia
The Headright System, introduced in Virginia, gave each head of household the right to fifty acres of land for himself and fifty additional acres for each adult family member of servant that he brought to America.
The four square kilometers of land was given to anyone who was accepted to cross the Atlantic Ocean to help populate the colonies.
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.
Wood was the most common material in colonial times.
Cause of French Indian war
it was a chance to have a better life
The 104 men were sent by the London company to find gold for the investors who sent them.
fishermen
In general the term 'formerly' represents something that was in the past or at a previous time. It can be used to describe something that was or had been.
Changes in the government of Britain.
furs
In North America, different Native American groups fought alongside both Britain and France
Pilgrims and Germans
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Most people south of the United States still speak Spanish
