| What were the Labor and the Creation of America | ⚫ Abundance of resources
and land
⚫ Problem: Shortage of
labor |
| What were the Labor and the Creation of Britain and Europe | ⚫ Abundance of workers
⚫ Problem: Shortage of
resources and land |
| What was the solution to the labor problems for New England and some of the Middle Colonies: | LABOR SOURCE WAS THE FAMILY:
-Small family farms
-Women and children worked
-Males inherited land by their mid twenties
-Others families expanded into western New England
for land OR to escape the rigors of the Puritans. |
| What was the solution to the labor problem in Chesapeake and the South. | First: Headright system in Virginia
Reason for its use:
-Lack of discipline in the Jamestown Colony
-Near starvation conditions |
| What was the Headright system in Virginia | Arrangement-Promises of land if
one was willing to migrate
-had to pay for passage
-Each white male was counted as
“head” of family and promise land
to work |
| What was the problem of the Headright system in Virginia | Too expensive for commoners |
| What was a solution for the labor problem | Indentured Servitude |
| What was the positives in indentured servitude's | Arrangement-Passage paid for in return for service
-5-7 years
-Promise of land
Who-Many Scots and Irish |
| What were the problems in having indentured servitude's | Temporary and unstable--runaways were common
Laws did not always recognize the arrangement
Less inclined to do labor intensive work (tobacco) |
| What was the final solution to the labor problem? | African Slavery |
| What were the positives of African Slavery at the time | -Permanent and dependable
-Developed slowly (compared to the Americas)- 1600s |
| What region mostly used slaves | Chesapeake Region ((Va/Md) |
| Development of Slavery connected to ____ | Development of Slavery connected to Race |
| What was the time line of slavery | Origins: Early 1600s
In flux: Mid 1600s
Permance: End of 1600s |
| Early 1600s-Origins/Early Years of Colony | -Status defined by your religion, level of sophistication and land
ownership
-Africans gained freedom owned land and had servants
-Labor source was mix of peoples |
| Mid 1600s-Status was in flux | 1. English view of outsiders as barbaric (Indians, Irish, Africans)
+
2. Instability of other sources (Indentured servants.
Servants, Natives)
+
3. Growth of plantation economy depended on intensive labor
First records of Africans enslaved appears in the 1640s
Still, many Africans remained independent in Virginia |
| End of 1600s-Permanence | Laws passed insured the permanency of slavery with race:
-Status through the Mother’s line
-Lifetime status
-Conversion did not mean freedom
-Limit movements of enslaved/free blacks |
| Bacon’s Rebellion | -poor whites rebel against Va. governor
-Refused to open lands for settlement/heavy taxes
-Forced poor whites to serve as tenants
-bloody rebellion forces a shift to slavery |
| Slavery grows rapidly by... | 1700 |
| From African slavery resulted in Improving conditions in____-fewer migrants | England |
| From African Slavery resulted a Monopoly on _____ ended--cheaper enterprise | slave trade |
| What are some of characteristics of Slavery | Permanent/
Laws
● Viewed as
property
● Forced
Migration
● Kidnapped
● Africans
● POWs-result
of Civil Wars
● Lucrative
trade |
| What are the characteristics of Indentured servitudes | ● Temporary (5-7
years)/Fluid
● Viewed as
individuals
● Voluntary
migration
● Arrangement
● Poor Europeans
(Scots and
Irish)
● Debtors-
encouraged by
governments
● Depopulate
Europe |
| What are the similarities of slavery and indentured servitude's | ● Labor source
● Farms/
Plantations
● Unpaid
● Harsh treatment
● No Rights
● Runaways |
