One major issue for Chesapeake planters who were growing tobacco was the availability and acceptance of slave labor.
Things started to get better when colonists began to grow tobacco. Europeans learned about tobacco from the Indians. In 1612, a settler named John Rolfe discovered that Jamestown was ideal for growing tobacco. Then the arrival of woman also helped the colony prosper.
The Virginia Company made money from growing and selling tobacco.
The tobacco variety that Europeans liked was grown in the European colonized Caribbean islands, and after 1604 it was grown in on the American continent (another variety of tobacco was used by Native Americans, but Europeans disliked the flavor.) Tobacco was turned into cigars, snuff, and other products, all of which was in high demand at the time. England was the main buyer of tobacco at that time.
tobacco
Tobacco came from plants. Tobacco came from plants because, back in the day people thought growing tobacco was important to their lives.
One major issue for Chesapeake planters who were growing tobacco was the availability and acceptance of slave labor.
A huge, cheap, work force was needed to grow it. (NovaNET) (:
By growing tobacco.
Things started to get better when colonists began to grow tobacco. Europeans learned about tobacco from the Indians. In 1612, a settler named John Rolfe discovered that Jamestown was ideal for growing tobacco. Then the arrival of woman also helped the colony prosper.
Tobacco
growing cash crops such as cotton and tobacco -apex ;)
The tobacco grown in Jamestown was neither liked by the settlers or consumers back in Europe. John Rolfe solved this problem by successfully cross pollinating the Jamestown Tobacco with a strain from Trinidad in the West Indies, and producing a superior blend. .
Crops became smaller and lower in quality each year
Crops became smaller and lower in quality each year.
Crops became smaller and lower in quality each year.
The Virginia Company made money from growing and selling tobacco.