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A 5 page research paper that explores how tobacco came to be a prominent influence in the development of Virginian Chesapeake society. The writer discusses the factors promoting type adoption of this cash crop, the kind of society that evolved and the impact on the environment of the region. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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of Virginia, for example, it was not cotton, but tobacco that was "king." The English colonies that grew up in the Chesapeake region built their entire economy and society upon
the cultivation of this one crop. But while tobacco saved these colonies from financial disaster, the tobacco culture that it generated also presented many problems to colonial Virginians. In
1606, backers in England focused on the Chesapeake area of Virginia as a promising site for British colonization. The formation of the Virginia Company of London in 1606 led to
the founding of Jamestown in Virginia the following year (Vaughn, 2004). Problems abounded in the colony from the beginning. First of all, the location chosen for the site of Jamestown
proved to be positively lethal to the colonists, as disease more than decimated the population. Also, the colonists themselves lacked appropriate skills. According to Vaughn (2004), the first colonists should
have been predominantly soldiers (to help ward off the attacks of Native Americans), with the rest of the population made up of farmers and laborers. Instead of such a sensible
mix, the first colonists were an assortment of workers, with skills that were irrelevant to survival in the New World and others who fancied themselves to be a form of
gentry (Vaughn, 2004). In other words, the Chesapeake, as Englands first major experiment in North American colonization, was a "trial-and-error disaster" (Vaughn, 2004). The introduction of tobacco, quite literally,
saved the day for the English colonists. John Rolfe brought a superior species of tobacco from Trinidad in 1612. By 1617, Rolfes experiments with growing Spanish tobacco had proved
to be successful and this provided the colony with an export stable of high value (Hemphill, 2004). This ignited a tobacco "craze" that became so extreme that the cultivation
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