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The last quarter of the seventeenth century was a time of great violence through out the colonial region. Warfare and conflict was a constant. Most of the conflicts were between the Indians and the colonists. Armed conflicts between Indian peoples and the Puritans colonies raged for control of land and trade, and needed for lands increases especially after the tobacco become the most important investment trade in the new world, mainly in Virginia colony, tobacco provided Virginia colonists with the merchant commodity. Also tobacco provided Virginia company with the first return of investment, but tobacco required a great deal of hand labor so the company instituted what were called head right grants, award of large plantations to men on the condition that they the transport worker from England at their won cost, and that will raise the number of Virginia population and needed for land become important after what called the indentured servant. Men and women contracted to labor for a master for a fixed time with eligible to freedom due, clothing, food, tools, and after finishing their servant term they have the right to have a land and start their life.
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