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Question: Corn vs tobacco!. which is more important to jamestown!?
which is more important to the early jamestown colony!. i choose con!. and WHY!Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Sorry!.!.!.!. tobacco was the chief crop and export to the old world!. WHY!? It brought more dollars per pound of shipping weight than any other commodity!.!.!. including corn!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Cotton was king!.!.!.!.!. once the cotton gin was introduced which thus allowed it to become a more profitable product!. Even with slave labor prior to this it wasn't the most profitable product due to how long it to pick and deseed, which was all done by hand!. Before cotton was king, tobacco was!. There was a HUGE demand back in England and Europe for tobacco for smoking and for snuff!. John Rolfe first cultivated tobacco at Jamestown in either 1613 or 1614, making it the first cash crop of the colony!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Tobacco because it was rare to others and had never been experienced before by others!. Helped the colony make a lot of money because of the high demand!.Www@QuestionHome@Com