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 the early period the cash crop was tobacco. By 1850, it was cotton, which made the South very prosperous when it came to money. From this came the expression Cotton is king!. In the early period the cash crop was tobacco. By 1850, it was cotton, which made the South very prosperous when it came to money.