oct 24, 1612 - 3. Tobacco
Description:
A man from Jamestown, John Rolfe, an amateur botanist, cross-bred strains of local Virginia tobacco with Caribbean strains. The profitability attracted new settlers. Settlers began to grow the new crop everywhere. They left Jamestown to start tobacco farms elsewhere. The population grew, the popularity of tobacco grew, and so did slavery.(key concept 2.2, ii)
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Date:
oct 24, 1612
Now
~ 413 years ago