USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The most important export from the Virginia Colony was COTTON. NATHANIEL BACON led a rebellion to protest poor colonists lack of representation in the Virginia legislature. Puritans came to the colonies seeking POLITICAL freedom.

Detailed explanation-2: -Their exports included rum, guns, gunpowder, cloth, and most importantly tobacco. Virginia’s Economy was so successful that it prompted the English government to set up other colonies in America.

Detailed explanation-3: -Significance. It was the first permanent English settlement in the New World at Jamestown. It provided a source of fertile land and great wealth to England in the form of the cash crop, tobacco. With the House of Burgesses, America saw the first institutional instance of representative self-government.

Detailed explanation-4: -Despite a reported export of 43, 350 pounds sent to Great Britain in 1768, cotton never became a major crop in Virginia during its colonial period-mainly for three reasons. First is the nature of cotton itself, which likes a long and hot summer of 77 degrees mean temperature and 200 days between frosts.

Detailed explanation-5: -By the end of the seventeenth century, Virginia had established tobacco as its main crop, a representative government, and slavery as a dominant system of labor. In 1606, a group of wealthy London businessmen petitioned King James I for a charter to establish a colony in the New World.