SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE MIDDLE COLONIES NEW YORK DELAWARE NEW JERSEY PENNSYLVANIA
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indentured servant
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slave
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merchant
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Indentured servants were men and women who signed a contract (also known as an indenture or a covenant) by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to Virginia and, once they arrived, food, clothing, and shelter.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer: Georgia was founded as a place where debtors and the poor could make a fresh start. The colony was meant to protect the other English colonies from Spanish attack.
Detailed explanation-3: -Unlike solidly Puritan New England, the middle colonies presented an assortment of religions. The presence of Quakers, Mennonites, Lutherans, Dutch Calvinists, and Presbyterians made the dominance of one faith next to impossible. The middle colonies included Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware.
Detailed explanation-4: -From 260, 000 settlers in 1700, the colonial population grew eight times to 2, 150, 000 in 1770. (In comparison, the French colonial population grew from 15, 000 to 90, 000 in 1775, i.e., just 4% of the English total.) In fact, the English colonial population doubled almost every 25 years in the 1700s.