tobacco
tobacco
The real "gold" of Jamestown was not actual gold or precious metals, but rather tobacco. Introduced as a cash crop in the early 1600s, tobacco became highly lucrative and crucial for the economic survival of the Jamestown colony. Its cultivation and exportation provided the financial foundation for the settlement and fueled the growth of the Virginia Colony, marking tobacco as a key commodity in colonial America.
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The first settlers to Jamestown, Virginia were impoverished aristocrats searching for gold.
they looked for gold
for gold
They did look for gold but they didn't find any.
gold
To find gold and get RICH
Searching for gold.
When the Jamestown colony was built in Virginia, all the colonists were looking for was gold. When there was no gold found except for pyrite (fake gold), the colonists discovered the cash crop of tobacco. The trade of tobacco raised their profits so much that King James called tobacco the "golden leaf" meaning that the tobacco was there form of gold.