A new life in the New World offered a glimmer of hope; this explains how one-half to two-thirds of the immigrants who came to the American colonies arrived as indentured servants. Servants ...

Most farms were geared toward production for the family, but the rapid growth in population and the expansion of the frontier opened up large numbers of new farms. The number of farms, in fact, grew ...

The course surveys major developments in the economic history of North America between 1600 and 2000. Colonial development; the American Revolution; Early North American Industry; Slavery; Westward ...

Colonial Williamsburg, which is in the Tidewater region of Virginia, is the world’s largest living history museum, offering ...