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☆☆☆☆☆The Headright system began in the US state of Virginia.
The Headright system tried to solve the labor shortage problem. It was also a way to attract new colonists. Immigrant colonists were given one headright and could receive one more for each passage they paid for an additional immigrant.
The Headright system also led to too much distribution of land, increasing the tension between the Native Americans and the colonists. It also let to the increase of indentured servitude and slavery.
opportunities to make money (apex)
Fewer indentured servants arrived as conditions in europe improved.
Pilgrims and Germans
England required that American colonists sell their cotton, tobacco, and other crops to them and the colonists were required to buy tea, sugar, fabric, and other goods from them, even if the Dutch offered the same goods for better prices.
