USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Those tobacco seeds became the seeds of a huge economic empire. By 1630, over a million and a half pounds of tobacco were being exported from Jamestown every year. The tobacco economy rapidly began to shape the society and development of the colony. Growing tobacco takes its toil on the soil.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rolfe brought tobacco seeds to Jamestown from the Caribbean island of Trinidad. In 1612, he harvested his first tobacco crop, which was well-received in England, and which, became the colony’s cash crop!

Detailed explanation-4: -“A custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, ” was King James I’s view of smoking tobacco but this small seed saved Virginia. Colonist John Rolfe brought the seeds of sweeter tobacco to Jamestown in 1610, and from this microscopic item came the first major crop of the English Atlantic trade.