Concepts of US History

The beginning of the US started in the early seventeenth century, same time the colonies which were: Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia were formed which were also "religious plantations". When this colonies together with other Royal colonies were formed they needed to find a way of survival. For this reason they relied on tobacco plantations which gave them great riches, so much that they needed indentured servants working for them, which the poor servants did not make it through the seven years of servitude because most of them died so they never got their freedom as promised. Since the indentures servants did not seem to be enough that is when they started the middle passage which is the journey that the African Americans went through when they were brought from Africa to America.But the African Americans were not indentured servants, they were brought and used for slavery. Slaves suffered a lot on this case not only were they slaves but they had no right at all, Their owners used black codes on them together with salutary neglect.In this time there were also a whole lot of problems going on based on the religion and mercantilism that people practiced. This colonies especially opened the doors to people who practiced Puritanism. During this time the most important thing to people was living their life according to the Headright System. The headright system was one of the proprietary colonist main evangelicalism. The propiateary owners were colonist that were granted a tract of land together with their Indian inhabitants which were also known as encomiendas. The joint-stock companies was one of the companies that payed for all the slaves shipments from Africa to America so then they could charge their owner as tariffs.