Answer and Explanation:
To get people to come to
the New World, The London Company established the
headright method, which provided land to anyone
who paid their own passage, or the passage of others
to the settlement. The headright system produced
large tobacco plantations, but this created conflict
over land with the natives as the settlers took more
land for tobacco production. Tobacco growers gained
more land through the headright system, and also
gained workers by paying for the passage of
indentured servants (servants who worked for a
period of time in exchange for passage to the New
World). However, by the end of the 1600s, African
slaves became the workforce. To try to make the
colony as democratic as possible and give the colonists
a voice in the government, The London Company also
established the House of Burgesses (1619). This
assembly followed the political tradition of the Magna
Carta, England’s guarantee of basic rights.
