USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -About 1612 he began to experiment with growing tobacco. When he found that the local variety was too bitter for English tastes, he began cultivating seeds that he brought from the West Indies. In June 1613 Rolfe sent some of the West Indian tobacco to England.

Detailed explanation-2: -Before 1611, Rolfe began cultivating tobacco seeds grown in the West Indies; he probably obtained them from Trinidad or some other Caribbean location. When the new tobacco was sent to England, it proved immensely popular, helping to break the Spanish monopoly on tobacco and create a stable economy for Virginia.

Detailed explanation-3: -John Rolfe (1585 – March 1622) was one of the early English settlers of North America. He is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virginia in 1611.

Detailed explanation-4: -The economy of Virginia depended on agriculture, namely tobacco, as its primary source of wealth. Tobacco became the colony’s most successful cash crop, which required a steady and inexpensive source of labor to work on farms and plantations.