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Tobacco farming in the state of Virginia is extremely profitable.
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What is Virginia's gold?
Tobacco
Colonial Virginia's economic substitute for gold was?
Tobacco
What is the symbolic meaning of a gold leaf?
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.
What is Virginia's economy?
The economy of Virginia is tobacco.
How did John Rolfe transform the Virginia colony?
He experimented with tobacco plants, by crossbreeding tobacco from brazil, with a harsh strain of weeds that Native Americans had grown. Making the plants spread like wildfire. His experiment resulted in high quality tobacco. It was then called brown gold, because of it's popularity. The Virginia colony exported more than 1.5 million lbs of tobacco to England every year.
What products were used in the Virginia colony?
Tobacco
How where tobacco plants useful in colonial Virginia?
Tobacco was THE big cash crop for Virginia.
Why is tobacco called brown gold?
Back in the day it made a lot of money, almost to the equivelant of gold.
Was tobacco a cash crop in Virginia?
Yes. Tobacco was a very large cash crop in Virginia.
What crop helped Virginia become successful?
Tobacco was the main crop that Virginia made huge profits off of.
What cash crop saved Virginia's economy?
tobacco
How did Virginia develop?
Tobacco
