Economics vs. Religion
Krysta Sinclair
Gillard
AP History
30 August 2013
Economic vs. Religious
“Throughout the Colonial period, economic concerns had more to do with the settling of British North America than did religious concerns.” This statement is true based on the events staged throughout the Colonial period. There were predominantly more economic concerns rather than religious concerns during the settlements of British North America. The joint-stock company in Virginia, indentured servants and tobacco in Chesapeake Bay, and colonial slavery are all examples of economic concerns in the Colonial period. Religious actions also took place mostly in Pennsylvania and Maryland with the Quakers and Catholics, but the economic concerns played a much bigger role in the Colonial society.
The joint –stock company known as the Virginia Company of London, was a significant document in American history that guaranteed to the overseas of settlers the same rights of Englishmen that they would have enjoyed if they had stayed at home. The “rights of Englishmen” helped economically by having a more populous colony and it was intended to endure for only a few years, after which its stockholders hoped to liquidate it for profit. Indentured servants economically played a huge role in the Chesapeake Bay with the farm labor of tobacco. Indentured servants were displaced farmers looking for employment in the New World that mortgaged their labor to the Chesapeake masters and plantation owners in exchange for ‘freedom dues” and transatlantic passages. Indentured servants helped economically by the farm labor with cash crops and tobacco. Indians died too quickly on contact with whites to be a reliable labor force and African slaves cost too much money. The indentured servants were known as the “surplus” of displaced farmers in Chesapeake Bay. By the mid-1680’s, for the first time, black servants outnumbered white servants among the plantation colonies’ new arrivals. The Royal African Company was the
Gillard
AP History
30 August 2013
Economic vs. Religious
“Throughout the Colonial period, economic concerns had more to do with the settling of British North America than did religious concerns.” This statement is true based on the events staged throughout the Colonial period. There were predominantly more economic concerns rather than religious concerns during the settlements of British North America. The joint-stock company in Virginia, indentured servants and tobacco in Chesapeake Bay, and colonial slavery are all examples of economic concerns in the Colonial period. Religious actions also took place mostly in Pennsylvania and Maryland with the Quakers and Catholics, but the economic concerns played a much bigger role in the Colonial society.
The joint –stock company known as the Virginia Company of London, was a significant document in American history that guaranteed to the overseas of settlers the same rights of Englishmen that they would have enjoyed if they had stayed at home. The “rights of Englishmen” helped economically by having a more populous colony and it was intended to endure for only a few years, after which its stockholders hoped to liquidate it for profit. Indentured servants economically played a huge role in the Chesapeake Bay with the farm labor of tobacco. Indentured servants were displaced farmers looking for employment in the New World that mortgaged their labor to the Chesapeake masters and plantation owners in exchange for ‘freedom dues” and transatlantic passages. Indentured servants helped economically by the farm labor with cash crops and tobacco. Indians died too quickly on contact with whites to be a reliable labor force and African slaves cost too much money. The indentured servants were known as the “surplus” of displaced farmers in Chesapeake Bay. By the mid-1680’s, for the first time, black servants outnumbered white servants among the plantation colonies’ new arrivals. The Royal African Company was the