What Did Tobacco Do for Jamestown

Jamestown grew farmers needed more workers to grow tobacco. At first these workers were indentured servants.

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Indentured servants were men and women who agreed to work for free for a John Smith at the center of this picture had a big problem.

. Yet many people in his colony would rather hunt for gold than make. In order to meet demands from the old world tobacco was grown in succession. In 1612 six years after the settlement of Jamestown John Rolfe was credited as the first settler to successfully grow tobacco as a cash cropThe demand quickly grew as tobacco referred to as golden weed revived the Virginia Company from its failed expeditions in search for gold in the Americas.

He was the leader of Jamestown.

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