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09/01 Bellringer 5+ sentences http://ghhsapush.com/bellringers Indentured servitude was a labor system whereby young people paid for their passage to the New World by working for an employer for a certain number of years. It was widely employed in the 18th century in the British colonies in North America and elsewhere. What might would motivate a person to sell themselves into indentured servitude?

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http://ghhsapush.com/bellringersIndentured servitude was a labor system whereby young people paid for their passage to the New World by working for an employer for a certain number of years. It was widely employed in the 18th century in the British colonies in North America and elsewhere.

What might would motivate a person to sell themselves into indentured servitude?

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British colonists came 

to America for a wide 

variety of reasons:• escape poverty, gain wealth, or gain land • religious freedom & to flee religious persecution • escape violence during   the English Civil WarAs a result, British colonies were very different from each other & were never 

very unified  

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1607  Jamestown  first permanent British colony in America (Chesapeake Bay, Virginia) 

Joint-stock company called the Virginia Company

Looking for gold so they did not prepare to stay long in America; They did not plant crops & faced starvation 

John Smith took control & forced settlers 

to farm

“He who will not work, will not eat”

Located on a swamp 

Led to outbreaks of disease among colonists

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Powhatan Indians

Colonist and natives had an uneasy relationship 

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No gold was found so…colonist had to find another way to make 

money

1612, John Rolfe = tobacco as a cash crop

Tobacco = $ so…

…more land cleared…plantations…workforce

Due to the success of tobacco, 

the Jamestown settlement expanded into the Virginia colony 

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Indentured servants1618  Headright System  gave 50 acres to anyone 

who brought an indentured servant to America 

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African slaves  first brought in 

1619

African slaves were 

transported from Africa to 

America on slave ships across the 

“Middle Passage” 

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In 1619, Virginians formed the House of Burgesses which was the first legislative 

assembly in America  

Virginia was a royal colony…the governor was chosen by the king, but the H of B made the important decisions

As the Virginia colony grew, it needed government.

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Elected leaders were usually rich and did not truly represent poor farmers in the colony

Poor farmers, led by Nathaniel Bacon, blamed Virginia’s governor for not protecting them & started a rebellion

Bacon’s Rebellion proved to rich Virginians that slaves were better than indentured servants

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The colonists who first settled in 

New England came for religious reasons 

Separatists and Puritans

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Separatists = “Pilgrims”Plymouth colony (1620) 

Mayflower Compactthe first example of  

self-government in America

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Pilgrims faced disease & hungerReceived help from local 

natives like Squanto

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1630  Puritans created colony of Massachusetts

John Winthrop

Boston should be a “city on a hill”