SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE 13 COLONIES LIFE IN EARLY AMERICA
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an indentured servant
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an American Indian
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a landed Cavalier
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a slave
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why were indentured servants necessary in Virginia? Colonists in Virginia were suffering a very high death rate which led to a shortage of labor, the labor was needed because the colonists needed a work force to work on their plantations.
Detailed explanation-2: -Significance. It was the first permanent English settlement in the New World at Jamestown. It provided a source of fertile land and great wealth to England in the form of the cash crop, tobacco. With the House of Burgesses, America saw the first institutional instance of representative self-government.
Detailed explanation-3: -With passage to the Colonies expensive for all but the wealthy, the Virginia Company developed the system of indentured servitude to attract workers. Indentured servants became vital to the colonial economy.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Colony of Virginia, chartered in 1606 and settled in 1607, was the first enduring English colony in North America, following failed attempts at settlement on Newfoundland by Sir Humphrey Gilbert in 1583 and the Roanoke Colony (further south, in modern eastern North Carolina) by Sir Walter Raleigh in the late 1580s.