Difference Between Indentured And Headright
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Entry 1
Indentured and Headright
Between 1660 and 1710 Virginia's population of white settlers doubled. The Headright system was put into place to entice settlers to the new lands. This allowed 50 acres of land for each person arriving to the New World, in turn starting the indentured servant system. Employers would pay for passage to America, and a contracted period of work would be established to pay back the debt. When complete individuals would be free. The paying party would receive the 50 acres from the head right system. When free a small plot of land was usually given along with clothes and some supplies to get the individual started. So the more people land owners brought over the More land they would receive, this …show more content…
This tax was meant to raise money for the protection of the colonies. England used this same tax to raise money. The colonists rebelled against the stamp act of 1765 by refusing to pay the tax in the colonies. The sons of liberty stood up and organized the people to destroy the tax stamps. Colonists also hindered the collector’s abilities to do their job by threatening them and damaging their homes and personal belongings. The colonies boycotted British goods almost 1000 merchants signed a non-importation agreement drastically hurting British merchant’s income. This act was repealed in 1766 and the boycott was lifted by arguments from the stamp act …show more content…
Parliament lifted this tax for the East India Trading Company when they were falling on hard times, which allowed the company to ship tea directly to the colonies. This sparked the Boston Tea Party. The Tea act enraged the colonists because Parliament repealed the act for The East India trading company and not the colonies. Colonists felt that requiring them to pay the tax and lifting it for the failing company was giving away their economic freedoms. The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston led by Samuel Adams, on December 16, 1773. The demonstrators were disguised as American Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. The king wanted to use artillery on Boston for this act of rebellion. New York and Philadelphia said that by force or the gun is the only way that the tea would ever enter their port. Even if the tea was to make it in the Colonists were entrenched in boycotting and would not buy it.
Entry 6
Boston Massacre
In 1767 the colonists refused to pay taxes imposed by the Townshend act again boycotting imports and pushing for more domestic products. Secretary of State of the colonies, Lord Hillsborough, sent troops from the frontier to Boston. The colonists, with snowballs, were hitting the troops that were stationed in Boston; they got mad and fired into the crowd killing 5 colonists. On March 5, 1770 the Boston massacre took place.
Entry 1
Indentured and Headright
Between 1660 and 1710 Virginia's population of white settlers doubled. The Headright system was put into place to entice settlers to the new lands. This allowed 50 acres of land for each person arriving to the New World, in turn starting the indentured servant system. Employers would pay for passage to America, and a contracted period of work would be established to pay back the debt. When complete individuals would be free. The paying party would receive the 50 acres from the head right system. When free a small plot of land was usually given along with clothes and some supplies to get the individual started. So the more people land owners brought over the More land they would receive, this …show more content…
This tax was meant to raise money for the protection of the colonies. England used this same tax to raise money. The colonists rebelled against the stamp act of 1765 by refusing to pay the tax in the colonies. The sons of liberty stood up and organized the people to destroy the tax stamps. Colonists also hindered the collector’s abilities to do their job by threatening them and damaging their homes and personal belongings. The colonies boycotted British goods almost 1000 merchants signed a non-importation agreement drastically hurting British merchant’s income. This act was repealed in 1766 and the boycott was lifted by arguments from the stamp act …show more content…
Parliament lifted this tax for the East India Trading Company when they were falling on hard times, which allowed the company to ship tea directly to the colonies. This sparked the Boston Tea Party. The Tea act enraged the colonists because Parliament repealed the act for The East India trading company and not the colonies. Colonists felt that requiring them to pay the tax and lifting it for the failing company was giving away their economic freedoms. The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston led by Samuel Adams, on December 16, 1773. The demonstrators were disguised as American Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. The king wanted to use artillery on Boston for this act of rebellion. New York and Philadelphia said that by force or the gun is the only way that the tea would ever enter their port. Even if the tea was to make it in the Colonists were entrenched in boycotting and would not buy it.
Entry 6
Boston Massacre
In 1767 the colonists refused to pay taxes imposed by the Townshend act again boycotting imports and pushing for more domestic products. Secretary of State of the colonies, Lord Hillsborough, sent troops from the frontier to Boston. The colonists, with snowballs, were hitting the troops that were stationed in Boston; they got mad and fired into the crowd killing 5 colonists. On March 5, 1770 the Boston massacre took place.