The growth of large plantations in the Southern Colonies created a high demand for what?

A large and permanent workforce

Skilled shipbuilders and sailors

Merchants to trade goods with Native Americans

What was the main purpose of an indentured servant's contract?

To become the owner of the plantation where they worked

To pay for passage to the colonies through labor

To establish a new trade industry for Great Britain

To gain the right to vote in the colonial assembly

To receive training to become a colonial governor

To pay for their passage to America for a chance at a new life

To immediately become a wealthy plantation owner

To be given a leadership role in the local church

Workers who were paid high wages for their farming skills

The forced labor of enslaved people kidnapped from Africa

Small family farms that did not use outside workers

Volunteers sent from the New England colonies