Jamestown was the first "successful" attempt to settle in the New World. When they arrived, the worst place possible to settle on was chosen; a low and swampy, hot and humid place with outbrakes of malaria in the summer. It was surronded by thick woods which were difficult to clear for cultivation. The settlers, who were adventouros gentlemen, knew nothing about how to create a village noor did they know anything about the land they tried to settle on. The thick woods was nothing like what they were used to back in England. Jamestown did not become what the settlers wanted it to be. It became a place of death and misery. Infections, particularly malaria, weakened and killied several of the settlers. The only good thing one can say about Jamestown is that they somehow managed to survive.

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The large plantations needed workers. Indentured servants from England were shipped to America to work for landowners for up to seven years. When their time as indentured servants was over, they were given a small piece of land farther from the coast. As you moved farther from the coast, people got poorer and poorer. This was because they lived too far away from where things were decided and therefor had no power. The backcountry people were also the ones who had to deal with the Indians. The practice with indentured servants worked out good until Bacons Rebellion in 1676. A man called Nathaniel Bacon got a lot of backcountry people with him, and went to the governor to tell him they were not saticfied with the way things were. This was an important event because the people in power realized that the angry white population, of whom were earlier indentured servants, was a threat to them. They started to move against slavery. Black people who had gone through much pain and suffering were easier to control than the angry white servants. Big tobacco plantations with black slaves became extremely important for the southern states. This had never, or could ever h

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