American Colonies The Chesapeake colony had a larger impact on the development of colonial America.

The Chesapeake colony went on an expedition of Virginia with the intention of finding valuable goods and create a trade station. They did not have any luck finding the goods they were after, so they started to create a tobacco growing company that labored servants and the enslaved Africans. The purpose of this company was economic, and they started out small and the progression started to gradually expand. The tobacco company was succeeding greatly, and the colony was not failing like many others, thanks to the help of colonists, who were sent in with supplies from other areas that benefited the company and the colony. In this era, tobacco was a good trade because people wanted to have it because they thought it was uni ue. They would smoke it out of a fancy pipe to show people that they were wealthy and elegant. They also where at one point people were using it as a trade item instead of money, and were buying things with tobacco. In the book !America A Concise "istory# by $ames A. "enretta, he mentions how they were working with members and workers of the colony by compromising land for servants. "e states ! The Virginia Company allowed individual settlers to own land, granting %&& acres to every freeman and more to those who imported servants# '"enretta,()*. +ot only were these individual settlers to own land, but more acres included if they helped get servants. +ot only did the colony have an impact by the Virginia tobacco company, but they also had an influence with servants and slaves. ,y around the %-&&s, large populations of .nglish men were traveling in order to Virginia and /aryland to find work as indentured servants. The merchants of the colonies had convinced these travelers to sign a contract for labor, telling them that they would be freed if they worked for a certain amount of time, and would endow them with land. The merchants thought that the servants were more valuable and were hard to get a hold of, while the plantations considered the servants cheap. "enretta states !0uring the tobacco boom, a male servant could produce five times his purchase price in a single

year# '"enretta,(1*. The servants were put to work for long hours and were 2ust treated poorly they would beat them because they felt like it. 3adly, many of these servants did not end their contract due to death, or were not granted land after their time frame was over. 4nly one uarter of the servant population accomplished their goal, and was given property. These events had an impact on the development of colonial America because there were many trades and growths that occurred and made tobacco one of the main crops that were grown. /any people were growing tobacco and were given land. 3laves and servants were working in poverty that had a large affect on society that it is still talked about to this day.

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"enretta, $ames A., 6ebecca .dwards, and 6obert 4. 3elf. America: A Concise History. 7th ed. Vol. %. ,oston8 ,edford93t. /artin:s, ;&%;. <rint.