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**Theme:** Reconstruction **Topic:** Slavery **Free Response Question**: Analyze the origins and development of slavery in Britain's North American Colonies in the period 1607-1776 Introductory Paragraph **Setting:** Mainly in the Chesapeake Bay Colonies **Basis for Analysis**: Why was slavery necessary? **Partitions**: Shortage of Labor, Bacon's Rebellion, Legislative Decisions **Thesis:** In the period 1607-1776, the transition from indentured servants to slavery was influenced and affected by the shortage of labor, legislative decisions, and Bacon's Rebellion. **Partition 1:** Shortage of Labor Labor crisis in Chesapeake Bay colonies, landowners use headright system, indentured servitude. Cash crops become the main economic opportunity for land owners…need cheaper labor. Used headright system and slavery to encourage immigration to the New World Cashcrop in Virginia was mainly tobacco at the time, southern colonies=indigo...Africans had more knowledge about it,

**Partition 2:** Legislative Decisions

In 1660, the House of Burgesses passed a series of laws that made specific distinctions between whites and blacks. From this point on, current blacks and their offspring were considered lifelong slaves. This gives the white land owners the right to treat blacks as property, (they would =treat them horibbly and put them in even harsher conditions, many died of disease), this enabled slavery, made it officially legal in this area of the New World. It of course spreads to other areas very quickly. Involvement in slave trade (West Indies) increased in late 17th century, easy access to cheap labor, majority of imported slaves were from Africa

** Partition 3: ** Bacon's Rebellion 1676, in Virginia, Sir William Berkeley was the governor and he wouldn’t protect the backwoods farmers from the hostile Indians, and Nathaniel Bacon finally brought them all together and revolted. He defeated Berkeley and set fire to Jamestown. But the significance of this rebellion was that it signaled the difficulty of controlling former indentured servants. One of the main results of it was an increase in the demand for slave labor. This fast forwarded the slave trade, and the number of slaves in the New World

<span style="background-color: #800080; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 23px; text-align: left;">General Information: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"> Know basic knowledge about….. the headright system (indentured servant), slave trade, colonial economics (triangular trade), Bacon’s Rebellion, House of Burgesses, labor shortage, cash crops, etc.