EMERGENCE OF USA
FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES
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were usually artisans who brought needed skills to the area
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provided relatively cheap and an abundant source of labor for planters and farmers
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brought new ideas about the cultivation of tobacco
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provided labor for public projects undertaken by colonial governments
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Detailed explanation-1: -Indentured servants were individuals who bargained away their labor for a period of four to seven years in exchange for passage to the New World. In the 17th century, indentured servants made up the mass of English immigrants to the Chesapeake colonies and were central to the development of the tobacco economy.
Detailed explanation-2: -In some sense the colonies’ early experience with indentured servants paved the way for the transition to slavery. Like slaves, indentured servants were unfree, and ownership of their labor could be freely transferred from one owner to another.
Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: Indentured servants and African slaves essentially provided the labor power to help construct and develop the English colonies in North America, particularly those from Virginia southwards.
Detailed explanation-4: -Answer and Explanation: The primary advantage of indentured servitude for plantation owners was that it provided access to labor when few free workers were willing to toil in the fields.