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Tobacco cultivation drove the economic development of seventeenth-century English colonies
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Historical sources confirm that tobacco served as the primary cash crop, currency, and economic driver for seventeenth-century English colonies like Virginia, rescuing them from financial ruin and fueling their expansion.

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Wikipedia: Tobacco
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Wikipedia: History of Virginia
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University of North Carolina Press: Pursuits of happiness : the social development of early modern British colonies and the formation of American culture
1988 · cited by 0
Highlights high profits and the rapid development of tobacco as a viable staple for the metropolitan market.
Longman: The British in the Americas, 1480-1815
1994 · cited by 0
States tobacco became the principal success among crops in early English colonies.
Harper & Row: Interpreting colonial America : selected readings
1978 · cited by 0
Notes colonists kept to planting tobacco as their primary economic output.
Prentice-Hall: American odyssey, 1607-1789
1984 · cited by 0
Identifies tobacco as the staple money crop that expanded rapidly in Virginia.
Viking: American colonies
2001 · cited by 0
Describes tobacco as an ideal colonial cash crop transported across the Atlantic.
Everything we examined (18)
  1. Wikipedia: Tobaccoreferencesupports
  2. Wikipedia: History of Virginiareferencesupports
  3. Book: The Oxford Illustrated History of the United Statesreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  4. Book: Colonial Americareferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  5. Book: The British Atlantic Empire Before the American Revolutionreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  6. Book: Being Humanreferencesupportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  7. Book: Events That Changed the World in the Seventeenth Centuryreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  8. University of North Carolina Press: Pursuits of happiness : the social development of early modern British colonies and the formation of American culturereferencesupports
  9. Longman: The British in the Americas, 1480-1815referencesupports
  10. Harper & Row: Interpreting colonial America : selected readingsreferencesupports
  11. Prentice-Hall: American odyssey, 1607-1789referencesupports
  12. Internet Archive: Colonial America Essays In Politics and Social Development Second Editionreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  13. Little, Brown: Colonial America : essays in politics and social developmentreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  14. Viking: American coloniesreferencesupports
  15. Macmillan: The formative years: 1607-1763referenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  16. Wikisource: Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century/Chapter 7referenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  17. Wikisource: Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century/Chapter 5referenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  18. Wikisource: Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century/Chapter 1referenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
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