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The Virginia Headright System
From the headright system each servant imported meant another fifty acre of farmland for tobacco. This provided more land for tobacco and more laborers to harvest the tobacco for more profit. The profit from farming, planting, selling, and trading tobacco influenced more people to come to Virginia. One settler made 200 sterling after the good harvest in 1619 which attracted many other planters to be able to earn this much. Hence Virginia became a colony dependent on the servant's’ labor in order to become wealthy.
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