How Did Tobacco Farming Affect The Chesapeake

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The Chesapeake region had a profound impact on the Europeans and the New World who settled during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A tobacco plant rapidly became the European and the New World’s greatest successes.

As farming started to cultivate, tobacco farming became increasingly important to English farmers. Tobacco required vast amount of land and careful nurture in order to make it profitable. Since the growth of tobacco was a primary cash crop in the area, it introduced the system of indentured servants that enslaved African labor (Lecture, week 3).

Native Americans often used tobacco as part of religious ceremonies. Later, tobacco was used in medicine. It was considered to be used as a topical cure for wounds and inhalant

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