Assertion: tobacco | /r/CapableOf | become popular
Facets:
value: as a trade item
type: MANNER
value: increasingly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Following the arrival of the Europeans to the Americas, tobacco became increasingly popular as a trade item.
text: Tobacco became so popular that the English colony of Jamestown used it as currency and began exporting it as a cash crop; tobacco is often credited as being the export that saved Virginia from ruin.