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1 Tobacco: Virginia’s Gold
Vocab: Cash Crop, Indentured Servitude

2 John and Rebecca Rolfe Brought to America a sweet variety of Tobacco Seeds Was successful: Became Virginia’s Gold Many people from England started migrating to Virginia Cash Crop: a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower.

3 Tobacco Growth Intensive Labor
Indentured Servitude:  was a labour system whereby young people paid for their passage to the New World by working for an employer for a certain number of years.  African American Slaves: a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.

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