Tabacco, it saved the colony from ending up like Roanoke.
The settlers grew tobacco as their cash crop. This got them a lot of money.
The most important food crop in seventeenth-century Jamestown was tobacco. Introduced by John Rolfe in 1612, tobacco quickly became a cash crop that drove the colony's economy and attracted settlers. Its cultivation required significant labor, leading to the establishment of indentured servitude and, eventually, the use of enslaved Africans. This shift not only shaped the agricultural landscape but also had lasting social and economic implications for the region.
Tobacco was the most profitable cash crop in the Virginia colony sold to England
Indigo, cotton, rice and tobacco but cotton was the King.
One of the best middle colonies that would have been best to live in was Virginia. Living in Jamestown would have been better due to the tobacco which was grown as a cash crop.
Coffee is Colombia's most important cash crop.
Colonial America's Most Important Cash Crop Was.....Cotton.
Cotton
The settlers grew tobacco as their cash crop. This got them a lot of money.
No. Tobacco was the major cash crop.
Cotton
tobacco
It was the most valuable crop in the state/colony. It gives them money to buy other things that are important to them. basically it was just their "cash crop" per-say.
Maize is the main food crop and tobacco is the main cash crop
In Colonial America and around the American Revolution, the most important cash crop, excluding cotton, was tobacco.
Jamestown, Virginia was one of the most important colonial cities. The crop that made it most profitable was tobacco.
Because it was a cash crop that was first grown and sent to England by John Rolfe. This was grown on most plantations in Jamestown as well as indigo.