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☆☆☆☆☆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.
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.
By becoming indentured servants
Men would work harder if they had families.
The most likely reason he described them that way was to make it appear that they would be easy to defeat.
a chance for better life
They believed that he and his men were gods, sent from heaven.
Both groups came against their will.
The 104 men were sent by the London company to find gold for the investors who sent them.
They had few rights under their contract.
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