jamestown tobacco cash crop A Short History of Jamestown

A Short History of Jamestown Historic Jamestowne Part of Colonial National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service) By the passage of the Tobacco Inspection Act of 1734, nearly all of Yorktown's eighty five lots had been purchased. With high quality Virginia tobacco established as the main money crop and The dried leaves of the tobacco plant became the major cash crop in colonial Virginia in 1612. Tobacco cultivation was an extremely labor intensive process. Insects were a constant nuisance; enslaved people not File:Cultivation of tobacco at Jamestown 1615.jpg Wikimedia Commons Tobacco had been cultivated and smoked by Native Americans for centuries before Christopher Columbus introduced it to Europe. Jane Pauley reports on how growing tobacco became Americas first cash

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