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I don't know much about the colonies, but I do know tobacco changed Jamestown a whole lot. John Rolfe started growing tobacco, and got a bunch of different types. A few types sold really well and got the colonies a bunch of cash.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoBecause it made money! Tobacco grew well in the environment of colonial America, and it sold well back in England. Since it was so easy to grow it became an extremely large and integral industry in America, encouraging the growth of plantations and the slave trade.
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∙ 12y agothe cultivation of tobacco helped Virginia to developed financially,it also helped virginia to trade with other country until the revolution of sugar had taken place.when the revolution of sugar came about it affected the tobacco cropping,other country were in great it demand for especially when the green tea came about.
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What was the most important crop in the Southern colonies in the 1700's?
Tobacco
What cash crop helped the Virginia Colony grow and prosper?
Tobacco. It was very important crop for the colonists and helped them to build up a lot of wealth.
WHAT crop that the southern colonies had did the middle colonies not have?
tobacco
What was the northern of southern colonies main crop?
tobacco
What did the Southern economy depend on the most?
Cotton was the most important crop to the South. It was also important to Britain since much of the southern crop was sent to British mills and there were high hopes that Great Britain would recognize the Confederacy as a new nation. Tobacco was also important.
What was the cash crop that kept the southern farmers wealthy?
Tobacco was the best cash crop in the southern colonies :P
Why was rice the important cash crop to the southern colonists?
The good humitidy made rice an easy plant to grow.
What year did the colonists in Jamestown grow tobacco?
John Rolfe raised a successful tobacco crop in 1612. In 1619, it was the crop most people grew for profit.
In Chesapeake colonies what was the most important cash crop?
Tobacco
In the chesapeak colonies what the most important cash crop?
tobacco
What cash crop saved the colonists because they were able to sell it for a profit?
Tobacco!
What product provided colonists in Virginia with a cash crop and enabled them to succeed?
Tobacco
