AMERICAN HISTORY UNIT 2 ASSESSMENT ESSAY QUESTIONS

Running Head : American History 2

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I learned that in the American colonial era , the indentured servants consisted of adult white people who were compelled to work for a number of years . There were three kinds of indentured servants known as the free-willers or the redemptioners who opted to work to escape poverty in their own country or those who were forced to leave their own country because of political or religious persecutions and the third group were the criminals (Galenson

, 1981

The first group worked for a definite time to pay for their transit to America . These included the Germans and the Scottish men and women . The second group was those people who came to America to escape poverty or were forced to work in the colonies because there was a short supply of labor in America . For a period of time , they rendered their services to plantation owners . On the other hand , the criminals were sentenced to extradition in America they were indentured . They had to serve for seven years unless they have their own means of supporting themselves Immigrants from the third group settled in the West Indies and Maryland in vast numbers (Galenson , 1981

In the 17th century the Chesapeake region was composed of indentured servants who came from Europe . The colonies of Pennsylvania , Delaware and New Jersey depended on indentured servants . By the 18th century , the population of indentured servants in this region grew remarkably (Galenson , 1981...