Concepts
At the start of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, laws and systems were applied to the New World and areas involved with it. These laws restricted certain races and religious groups from their freedom. One of the is the Headright system, where indentured workers got their piece of land IF they worked and survived within seven years. Indentured servitude was possibly one of the only ways of obtaining 50 acres of land when coming to an American colony. However, these colonies would have to be established by English owners who had the right to colonize land. These colonized lands that had their owner were called proprietary colonies. Settlements began due to the necessity of relieving England from their economic and social imbalances that were solid in 1600. So to expand the colonies, joint-stock companies were made. Joint-stock companies divided ownership into "shares", so stocks would be sold to high investors. The risk in investing was very minimal and helped the poor folks (http://szabo.best.vwh.net/jointstock.html and http://www.ushistory.org/us/2b.asp). An example is the Royal Colony of North Carolina, where all proprietors except for one sold their shares to King George II. North Carolina's population of colony grew during 1729-1775 (http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/history-of-north-carolina2.htm). To control colonies, mercantilism was established. What mercantilism did was regulate the Nation's economy. through trade from exports of raw materials such as tobacco, sugar. and cotton. These exports were carried by English vessels or colonial-built vessels whose destination was Britain This accumulated the wealth for European powers (http://www.landandfreedom.org/ushistory/us3.htm). However, there was a man by the name of Sir Robert Walpole who believed that if there were no restrictions in colonies the wealth would flourish. The British government would become stricter and people would rebel against the laws put in effect. This is where the term "salutary neglect" came to be during the colonial era. Meanwhile, in England, there were other individuals who wanted their own freedom and developed their own opinions. Puritans wanted to "purify" the Church of England. These protestants felt the morals from the Church were wrong. The time of these events was called puritanism because the Puritans, who were a branch of Christianity and collaborated into evangelicalism (group of Puritans), were so heavily involved (http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/purdef.htm).
Fighting for one's own beliefs and freedom became common, but not towards Natives and Africans. Slavery was seen mostly everywhere starting with the Spanish lords who practiced enslavement in Hispanolia, or the Americas. Slaves became known as "property", so there was a system of labor called encomiendas in which one master would be granted an amount of laborers whom they would take responsibility. The first person to use this labor system was Christopher Columbus, who took over the indigenous people and took advantage of them to find gold. African slaves were another wave of enslavement. They were used very much like the Natives. They were transported by vessels to England and North America. The way they were traded were through the Middle Passage over the Atlantic Ocean. The passage was in a form of a triangle, and this triangle was used as a guide for selling other materials to Africa and England and so forth. The African slaves were also granted freedom much like the Natives in the last struggle. Except that Africans were now segregated by the black codes. These laws limited political power and social mobility of the African American (http://home.gwu.edu/~jjhawkin/BlackCodes/BlackCodes.htm).
The economic status of America evolved, and people began getting taxed. A great example is taxed by giving up material gained from one's own property. Taxing is an example of tariffs. Tariffs helped develop transportation and different services for the people in the colonies, or better said, state.
