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☆☆☆☆☆The original purpose of the Jamestown colony was to make money for the Virginia Company.
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.
Franciso Pizzaro.
Religious freedom
they ran out of food
The most likely reason he described them that way was to make it appear that they would be easy to defeat.
African Port Cities grew in importance
Other nations in Europe worked to profit from the New World as Spain did.
Jamestown
Profiting from the fur trade
The french
Most people south of the United States still speak Spanish
