USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1612, John Rolfe, one of many shipwrecked on Bermuda, helped turn the settlement into a profitable venture. He introduced a new strain of tobacco from seeds he brought from elsewhere. Tobacco became the long awaited cash crop for the Virginia Company, who wanted to make money off their investment in Jamestown.

Detailed explanation-2: -Thanks largely to Rolfe’s introduction of a new type of tobacco grown from seeds from the West Indies, Jamestown’s economy began to thrive. In 1619, the colony established a General Assembly with members elected by Virginia’s male landowners; it would become a model for representative governments in later colonies.

Detailed explanation-3: -The labor-intensive task that growing tobacco was called for a greater workforce that was first filled by indentured servants, and later slaves establishing slavery and the plantation style of agriculture the region would employ. The lucrative industry that tobacco became made Virginia prosperous.