Early Settlements in the New World

Early settlements in the new world were not as easy or as profitable as people had first thought. After the discovery of the new world in 1607, many people in England thought that they would be able to make great wealth by moving to the new World. Settlers found that they were problems in both Virginia and in Masseusetts Bay. Both areas had many promising features and they both had many serious challenges.
In Virginia settlers found that the resources were great, “Planters in early seventeenth-century Virginia had bountiful amounts of land and a profitable crop in tobacco”(1). In addition to this wonderful opportunity they realized quickly that labor was needed to work this land. As slavery had not yet taken root, the English decided that the best route war to use the system of indentured servants. In addition to this the natives were not subdued to assist with this labor problem, “They faced resistance from the local Indian people and were unable to enslave People wo...