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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 Economics. Chesapeake's main industry was tobacco and South Carolina was cotton. Cotton to be profiable needed lots of land and cheap labor. while chesapeake region and the tobacco indusâ¦try couldn't sustain large amounts of land and (cause you needed to dry it later in barns) and not much labor needed. 1 person found this useful.