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.
Traditional crops such as corn, tomatoes, apples, and peaches continue to be grown widely in the Blue Ridge mountains and foothills of North Carolina. For decades, burley tobacco has been a mainstay cash crop and a way of life for mountain farmers.