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define the headright system
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a system of obtaining land in colonial times in which one received fifty acres of land for every imigrant to America one sponsored
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explain indentured servants
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indentured servants are people not rich enough to buy a ticket for a boat ride to America so someone would pay for their ticket and in return they work for them 6-7 years
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Results of Bacon Rebellion
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Indentured servants both black and white joined the frontier rebellion. Seeing them united in a cause alarmed the ruling class. Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by young Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
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