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1) In what ways was the Mayflower compact important to the develpoment of democracy in America?





2) How and why did the practace of slavery begin and grow in colonial American.

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The Mayflower Compact was the compact which established the first basis in the New World for written laws.

The history of slavery in the United States began soon after Europeans first settled in what in 1776 became the United States. The Europeans needed slaves to work in plantations etc.From about 1619 until 1865, people of African descent were legally enslaved within the boundaries of the present United States. The economy of the early country was made possible in large part by the free labor afforded by slavery. Around half a million Africans were brought over from Africa during the slave trade, but due to laws making the offspring of slaves as slaves, the slave population in the United States grew to 4 million by the 1860 Census.The second record of slavery in Colonial America begins with twenty blacks recorded as being brought by a Dutch ship and sold to the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 as indentured servants.The transformation from indentured servitude (servants contracted to work for a set amount of time) to racial slavery happened gradually. There are no laws regarding slavery early in Virginia's history. By 1640, the Virginia courts had sentenced at least one black servant to slavery.Three servants working for a farmer named Hugh Gwyn ran away to Maryland. Two were white; one was black. They were captured in Maryland and returned to Jamestown, where the court sentenced all three to thirty lashes -- a severe punishment even by the standards of 17th century Virginia. The two white men were sentenced to an additional four years of servitude -- one more year for Gwyn followed by three more for the colony. But, in addition to the whipping, the black man, a man named John Punch, was ordered to "serve his said master or his assigns for the time of his natural life here or elsewhere."It was not until 1661 that a reference to slavery entered into Virginia law, and this law was directed at white servants -- at those who ran away with a black servant. The following year, the colony went one step further by stating that children born would be bonded or free according to the status of the mother.The transformation had begun, but it would not be until the Slave Codes of 1705 that the status of African Americans would be sealed.Originally in the American colonies, 1600 to 1800, American Indians (Native Americans) and other groups, mostly white Europeans such as captured soldiers, minor criminals, etc., were used as slaves (indentured servants, see Bound Over by John Van Der Zee), but by the 19th century almost all slaves were blacks. During the British colonial period, slaves were used mostly in the Southern colonies and, to a lesser degree, in the Northern colonies as well. Early on, slaves (indentured servants) were most useful in the growing of indigo, rice, and tobacco; cotton was only a side crop. Nevertheless, it was clear that slaves were most economically viable in plantation-style agriculture. Many landowners began to grow increasingly dependent on slave labor for their livelihood, and legislatures responded accordingly by increasingly stricter regulations on forced labor practices, known as the Slave codes.
Reply:The Mayflower Compact was not the first constitution in America's history as most believe. It is actually an agreement that, when a set of rules was to be made for the group of settlers, everybody would abide by them. This agreement was signed by the people on the ship showing a very democratic way of acting.



At first indentured servants, people from England and other European countries who worked in America for an alotted time to gain membership of the town, were used instead of black slaves for labor. This was due to the fact that black slaves were very expensive compared to these indentured servants. However, once indentured servants served they're time they were not given very good amounts of money and/or land to start on their own. Some had to go back to being servants. The conditions of these servants were harsh, and so a rebellion occured led by Nathaniel Bacon (thus the name of the rebellion Bacon's

Rebellion). This rebellion scared farmers into hiring indentured servants and so, black slaves were now used even more.

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