[DOC] [TLE] Jeopary Questions page 503 - WEIGHTS & MEASURES - Trivia Bistro [PAR] EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY: Members of the lower class, they were contracted 
to work without wages to pay for their passage to the New World. [DOC] [TLE] Indentured servant - Wikipedia [PAR] ... Bucks County, Pennsylvania, who had paid for Mayer to travel from Europe. An 
indentured servant or indentured labor is an employee (indenturee) within a 
system of unfree labor, who is bound by a contract (indenture) to work for a 
particular employer, for a ... After their indenture expired, the immigrants were 
free to work for themselves... [DOC] [TLE] Indentured servitude in the Americas - Wikipedia [PAR] Indentured servitude in the Americas was a means by which immigrants, typically 
young Europeans under 25, came to the Americas from the early 17th to the early 
20th centuries. Immigrants would contract to work for an American employer for a 
time ... Indentured servitude continued to be used in North America into the early
... [DOC] [TLE] Indentured Servants in Colonial Virginia - Encyclopedia Virginia [PAR] Dec 8, 2011 ... At first, the Virginia Company of London paid to transport servants across the 
Atlantic, ... As a result, servants flooded into the colony, where they were greeted 
by ... By the end of the seventeenth century, the number of new servants in 
Virginia ... In England, an indenture, or contract for labor, was known as a... [DOC] [TLE] CHAPTER 2-5 Multiple Choice Questions (In no particular order) [PAR] Prisoners from Spain were sent to work in New World silver mines for periods ... 
Women were denied political power in Lower Guinea but held powerful political 
and ... They wanted all English citizens to be included in the membership of the ... 
to pay for their own food out of the meager wages they earned; They were legally
... [DOC] [TLE] The Emergence of American Labor - United States Department of ... [PAR] Even as late as 1789 America was a nation of farmers. ... emigration to America 
of the unemployed poor and vagrant class and permitted skilled workers to go to 
the colonies. .... Free laborers operated under a system of wage payments as 
today. ... and their families by working at the Trades in which they were brought 
up.". [DOC] [TLE] Growth of Cities - AP U.S. History Topic Outlines - Study Notes [PAR] As a result, many Chinese left their homeland to make a living in America. ... with 
the money they earned made the low pay and dangers of railroad work more ... 
However, the strikes failed, leaving the workers without any improvements. ... 
many of these new immigrants were illiterate and poor, had little experience with
... [DOC] [TLE] The Rise and Fall of Indentured Servitude in the Americas: An ... [PAR] transport European workers to the New World, over time servitude dwindled as ... 
the Virginia Company and the settlers they sent to North America in the ... 2 
Indentured, or contract, labor was also used elsewhere in the nineteenth century, 
as, for ..... Wages were sometimes paid to servants during their terms, and their. [DOC] [TLE] Brief History of American Labor -- Mirror Site of UnionWeb History ... [PAR] The workforce in big mass production industries has contracted, and the new 
industries ... Membership was not limited to wage earners; it was open to farmers 
and small ... The new Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions which 
they ... Yet its fingers were clearly on the pulse of America's working class; it 
passed a... [DOC] [TLE] The Workers . Panama Canal . WGBH American Experience | PBS [PAR] These workers were not all from the United States, but from Panama, the ... 
boasted of a rewarding work contract, including free passage to Panama and a ... 
As work on the canal entered its second year, the death toll for laborers was ... 
worked, sacrificed and died while building the largest canal the world had seen 
to date. [DOC] [TLE] Origins of Colonial Chesapeake Indentured Servants - Price ... [PAR] Labor shortages in America's middle colonies enabled indentured servitude ... 
paid cash for their passage,[16] tracing associates to identify their origins

Question: Members of the lower class, they were contracted to work without wages to pay for their passage to the New World
Answer: indentured servants