SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
COLONIES OF FRANCE ENGLAND
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The people from Europe did not know how to grow crops.
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Africans need work and liked to serve others.
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Africans wanted to move to a new land.
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The large plantations required lots of help with planting and growing crops.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Enslaved Africans were first brought to Virginia in 1619. The settlements required a large number of laborers to sustain them. Because these crops required large areas of land, the plantations grew in size, and in turn, more labor was required to work on the plantations.
Detailed explanation-2: -Recruited as an inexpensive source of labor, enslaved Africans in the United States also became important economic and political capital in the American political economy. Enslaved Africans were legally a form of property-a commodity.
Detailed explanation-3: -Evidence of slavery predates written records; the practice has existed in many cultures. and can be traced back 11, 000 years ago due to the conditions created by the invention of agriculture during the Neolithic Revolution. Economic surpluses and high population densities were conditions that made mass slavery viable.
Detailed explanation-4: -Throughout the 17th century, European settlers in North America turned to enslaved Africans as a cheaper, more plentiful labor source than indentured servants, who were mostly poor Europeans.
Detailed explanation-5: -Tobacco profits helped to buy indentured servants and slaves. They also were used to pay local taxes and buy manufactured goods from England. With relatively cheap labor, increasing demand and a system of regulation the colonial plantation system was born.