the land lottery
the system was called the headright system.
The Headright System
A headright is a legal grant of land to settlers
The "headright" system was developed as an attempt to get more colonists to move to the newly established English colonies in the Chesapeake area. It guaranteed any colonist who paid their way to the colonies 50 acres of land. This offer was also good for anybody who payed for another person to go to the colonies. The "headright" system was appealing to many "common folk", as they were known, because it promised them land and usually it was more land than they had in England.
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.
land lottery
The Headright System
the system was called the headright system.
The Virginia Company developed the "headright" system to
The Headright System
The Headright System
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