How did the development of tobacco cultivation transform the Chesapeake?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The colonists cleared the fields by cutting a ring of bark from each tree, killing it; colonists loved to work because they regularly smoked while doing it. Because of the big tobacco demand, common laborers could buy 100 acres for less than their annual wages (headright) to help farm tobacco or make money for the Old World. To help work on the new tobacco fields, planters could buy indentured servants, poor immigrants who agree to 4 to 7 years of labor in North America in exchange for freedom. These servants made up 80% of the immigrants in the Chesapeake.
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a. Public Utility Holding Company Act b. National Industrial Recovery Act c. Wealth Tax Act d. Banking Act of 1935
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A) Knights of Labor B) Farmers' Alliance C) Populists D) Grange
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A) economic protest. B) anti-black violence. C) industrial innovation. D) religious and reform movements.
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A) Jefferson's lack of interest in the study of fossils B) an examination of the past rather than the present C) the successes of American science and engineering D) opposition to the use of slave labor