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.
Rice was not a cash crop for the southern colonies but tobacco,  indigo, and corn wheat were. In addition, perhaps the biggest cash  crop grown in the southern colonies was â¦cotton. The South grew to  rely so heavily on cotton and the money it generated that it began  to direct their society, leading to the Southern dependence on  slavery. 11 people found this useful.