Indentured servitude was (a) Only ended through manumission (b) Forced labor at
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Indentured servitude was (a) Only ended through manumission (b) Forced labor at zero wages (c) Only used in the Southern colonies (d) A labor contract between an immigrant and a ship's owner who carried the immigrant to the 4. colonies, sold to a buyer at the end of the journey to the colonies According to the thinking of Enlightenment economists (a) Markets and trade should be heavily regulated 5. b) Only the King and his government could determine the patterns of trade for a country (c) A free market is the best way to regulate trade (d) Guilds and monopolies promoted economic growth 6. Mercantilisim, as opposed to the thinking of Enlightenment economists, was a belilef that (a) Guilds were not a good way to organize skilled labor (b) Monopolies and guilds promoted trade that was good for the empire (c) Free trade was the route to economic growth (d) Monopolies would slow economic expansion of the empire Because of the economic measures taken by the British against their colonies before the Revolution, (a) The Articles of Confederation did not allow the national government to tax (b) The Articles of Confederation granted the national government immense powers (c) The new united country an economic superpower by the end of the Revolution (d) The debts of the states incurred to fight the Revolution were all paid back immediately 7. The British tax on tea and restricted import of tea to their North American Colonies was in line with (a) The nature of free markets advocated by the Enlightenment b) The Mercantalist emphasis on protecting the empire 8. (c) A provision of the new U.S. constitution as it was written in the 1780s (d) A harmonious, continuing relationship between the colonies and the British Empire When slavery was first introduced into the Colonies (a) Only Southern colonies imported slaves (b) Only Northern colonies imported slaves (c) Slavery was legal in all colonies (d) Slavery was not legal in British North America 9.Explanation / Answer
. D)
It was a slavery agreement between the parties usually lasting for four to seven years. They would agree to a contract that would lay down the terms of their service and if they breached the contract they would be liable to punishment.