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Do Now- Please Answer: Indentured Servant
How is Indentured Servitude related to the Headright System?? New Netherland Quakers- What were their beliefs??
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Emergence of Tobacco 1620-VA colony imported 1.5 million lbs of tobacco Served as currency RESULT= needed more laborers - lucritive Headright system- anyone who paid for another person to come to VA would be given 50 acres of land Headright system leads to Indentured Servitude---owners of land would import laborers to come to new world in exchange for 4-7 years of service—laborers were usually from lower income families Indentured servitude would result in slavery
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Headright System leads to Slavery
Headright Sys. must be wealthy to transport laborers to Americahired as indentured servants (poorer/lower class)costs less to own a slave than to have an indentured servant who can leave after 4-7 years of work=greater profit (so more ppl do it)
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Settlement of the Middle Colonies
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William Penn- Quaker-1681 receives charter for Pennsylvania
Penn’s idea-a gov’t run on Quaker principles (equality, cooperation, religious toleration) 1609-Henry Hudson sails down the “Hudson River” Dutch start establishing colony in the south (New Netherland) 1621-Dutch West India Company gets permission to colonize New Netherland & expand fur trade
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New Amsterdam- capital of colony
New Netherland attracts more ppl to colony- open it to ppl of all backgrounds (including Africans) Dutch, Germans, French, Scandinavians=very diverse Dutch get along w/Native Americans b/c they don’t want to conquer..just trade (fur)
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English Takeover English saw New Netherland as a “Dutch Wedge” (separated N colonies from S colonies) 1664- King Charles II told Duke of York to drive Dutch out=renamed NEW YORK
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Quakers Believed that god’s “inner light” burned inside everyone
No formal ministers Pacifists – oppose war/ military Anyone could speak
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