coursework. n. 1. (Education) written or oral work completed by a student within a given period, which is assessed as an integral part of an educational course.
More than the infusion of population, colonist John Rolfe's discovery of a profitable cash crop-tobacco-sealed the fate of the Virginia colony. Economically, tobacco became to the Chesapeake what sugar was to West Indies and silver was to Mexico. However, tobacco required a great deal of labor to cultivate.
In tobacco, though, Virginia finally stuck the jackpot. Within a few years of Rolfeâs first crop, shareholders in the Virginia Company were exchanging shares of stock for 100-acre land-grants to get in on the tobacco rush, according to Nancy Egloff, a historian with the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation. Immigration to the colony surged.