USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Relatively cheap labor, a growing population of middling planters, the increasing worldwide demand for tobacco, and a system of regulation designed to maintain the quality of the product all contributed to the creation of a tobacco industry in Virginia, especially in the Piedmont area.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Virginia ranked as the state with the third largest number of acres of harvested tobacco in the United States in 2021. Most of Virginia’s crop is grown in the counties along the North Carolina border. To put the statistics from 2021 in perspective, consider USDA stats from the previous six years.

Detailed explanation-4: -Once in Virginia, John Rolfe experimented with the planting of tobacco seeds he obtained from somewhere in the Caribbean. He gave some tobacco from his crop to friends, and they agreed that the new leaf was very pleasant and better than the Indian tobacco.