USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Jamestown colonists found a new way to make money for The Virginia Company: tobacco. The demand for tobacco eventually became so great, that the colonists turned to enslaved Africans as a cheap source of labor for their plantations.

Detailed explanation-2: -Colonists only grew corn and wheat for use by their families. Other crops were grown, but mostly for individual consumption.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rolfe brought seeds from the more desirable South American species, Nicotiana Tabacum, to Jamestown.

Detailed explanation-4: -Tobacco formed the basis of the colony’s economy: it was used to purchase the indentured servants and enslaved laborers to cultivate it, to pay local taxes and tithes, and to buy manufactured goods from England.

Detailed explanation-5: -The most important cash crop in Colonial America was tobacco, first cultivated by the English at their Jamestown Colony of Virginia in 1610 CE by the merchant John Rolfe (l. 1585-1622 CE).