It was considered a success because half the English coming to The New World had died on the trip. This was the first they had done that had worked.
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There was a significant amount of money that backed the colony at Jamestown. That helped in its success, but the main crop of success was tobacco.
Tobacco
It was not a success as a trading colony.
Mining silver
tabaco.
tobacco
John Rolfe
john smith
Sir Walter Raliegh
By growing tobacco.
By growing tobacco.
John Rolfe