... The inference was then made that blacks called servants must have had approximately the same status as white indentured servants. Such reasoning failed to notice that Englishmen, in the early seventeenth century, used the work servant when they meant slave in our sense, and, indeed, white Southerners invariably used servant until 1865 and beyond. Slave entered the Southern vocabulary as ... of a demographic revolution, a majority of slaves had now been born in the New World and they were capable of increasing the slave population by natural reproduction. During the seventeenth century,...

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... abundant natural resources and lucrative crops such as furs, deerskins, timber, fish, tobacco, indigo, rice, sugar, etc. and they traded them with other countries. By the end of the 17th century, the colonies had become part of the intricate North Atlantic commercial connection, and were trading with both Britain and the West Indies. They also traded illegally with Spain, France, Portugal ... the churches and they were required to attend church services. Contrary to the strict Puritan society of Massachusetts, Virginia was much more laid-back in regards to religion. In the seventeenth c...

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... fifty years subsequent to the foundation and establishment of the English speaking colonies of North America the settlers were still quite content and largely self governed. By the mid eighteenth century the population of British America was flourishing, and had risen to approximately one and-a-half million people across thirteen colonies. The standards for living in these colonies were amongst the ... Act of 1767, and the Tea Act of 1770. These various Acts were very large contributors to the outbreak, or "need" for the American War of Independence. During the early seventeenth century...

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Development of colonial government During the 1580's and 1590's, the English granted various proprietors and chartered companies the authority to establish colonies in America. In the following century the British created 12 colonies stretching up and down the eastern coast of America, South Carolina; North Carolina; Virginia; Maryland; Pennsylvania; Delaware; Connecticut; New Hampshire ... ; Rhode Island; Plymouth; New Netherlands and Massachusetts Bay. Georgia became one of the original 13 colonies during the 18th century. Each colony was a private venture, overseen by the English. Therefore...

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... fifty years subsequent to the foundation and establishment of the English speaking colonies of North America the settlers were still quite content and largely self governed. By the mid eighteenth century the population of British America was flourishing, and had risen to approximately one and-a-half million people across thirteen colonies. The standards for living in these colonies were amongst the ... Act of 1767, and the Tea Act of 1770. These various Acts were very large contributors to the outbreak, or "need" for the American War of Independence. During the early seventeenth century...

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During the Reformation of the seventeenth century, the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), led by George Fox, created their own denomination based on the belief that God is present as an, "Inner Light," in each ... ...

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