[DOC] [TLE] America's First Cash Crop: Tobacco - Modern Farmer [PAR] May 12, 2014 ... Within a few years of Rolfe's first crop, shareholders in the Virginia ... A few years 
earlier, John Smith described in some detail how the Indians around ... with its 
streets and all other spare places planted with tobacco and the... [DOC] [TLE] Tobacco in Colonial Virginia - Encyclopedia Virginia [PAR] Jan 29, 2013 ... Tobacco was colonial Virginia's most successful cash crop. ... bitter to the English 
palate; it was John Rolfe who in 1612 obtained Spanish seeds, ... produced a 
milder, yet still dark leaf that soon became the European standard. ... The plant 
had first been brought to England in 1565, perhaps from Florida by... [DOC] [TLE] John Rolfe - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com [PAR] Find out more about the history of John Rolfe, including videos, interesting ... 
seeds grown in the West Indies to develop Virginia's first profitable export. ... 
Tragically, Pocahontas became ill during preparations for the voyage back to 
Virginia, ... Opechankeno) made a major assault on the English colony, killing 
some 350 to... [DOC] [TLE] The Growth of the Tobacco Trade [ushistory.org] [PAR] This plant became the cornerstone of the Virginia economy. John Rolfe thought 
that Virginia might be an outstanding site for tobacco growth. Early attempts to... [DOC] [TLE] John Rolfe | Historic Jamestowne [PAR] All of its 150 people safely reached shore and salvaged much of the ship's 
supplies ... Rolfe gave some tobacco from his crop to friends to make triall of, 
and they ... and expand their colony on the strength of their new cash crop, 
tobacco. ... In Virginia he became a councilor and sat as a member of the House 
of Burgesses. [DOC] [TLE] John Rolfe - Wikipedia [PAR] John Rolfe (15851622) was one of the early English settlers of North America. 
He is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in 
the Colony of Virginia and is known as the husband of Pocahontas, ... Rolfe 
named his Virginia-grown strain of the tobacco "Orinoco", possibly in honour of 
tobacco... [DOC] [TLE] History of Virginia - Wikipedia [PAR] The History of Virginia begins with documentation by the first Spanish explorers 
to reach the ... By 1750, the primary cultivators of the cash crop were West African 
slaves. ... It became the major theater of war in the American Civil War. ..... and 
efforts to introduce profitable industries in the colony had all failed until John 
Rolfe... [DOC] [TLE] John Rolfe and Tobacco: Virginia's Cash Crop [PAR] John Rolfe and Tobacco: Virginia's Cash Crop. John Rolfe was a planter. He 
grew corn and beans on his plantation. He liked to smoke a pipe, so he decided 
to grow tobacco too. ... Tobacco became the cash crop of the colony in 1612. ... 
The was the color it's dried leaves; Tobacco was part of house walls; Tobacco 
was... [DOC] [TLE] Economics of Tobacco - History Is Fun [PAR] Students will explain how and why tobacco became a cash crop for ... product 
that would succeed in making money for the colony and its investors in England. 
... Once in Virginia, John Rolfe experimented with the planting of tobacco seeds... [DOC] [TLE] Tobacco: The Early History of a New World Crop - Historic ... [PAR] By 1565, the plant was known as nicotaine, the basis of its genus name today. ... 
Within a few years of the founding of Virginia, both the settlers and the Company 
... In the spring of 1610, the young John Rolfe arrived at Jamestown, a member of 
the ... Little did Rolfe guess how important his tobacco crop would become to the
... [DOC] [TLE] Tobacco: Colonial Cultivation Methods - Historic Jamestowne Part of ... [PAR] This paper describes how tobacco, the cash crop of colonial Virginia, was ... Until 
the plant reached knee-high, weekly cultivation was necessary, to deter both ... a 
"hogshead" soon became the favored container throughout the colonial period. ... 
The Spanish seeds which John Rolfe brought to the colony would assure its

Question: It's the crop John Rolfe planted in Virginia that became a major cash crop
Answer: Tobacco