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 mid-1700s, the price of South Carolinaâs largest cash crop, rice, was dropping, making indigo a valuable new addition to plantations. The indigo crop also extended the growing season, creating year-round work that made slavery more profitable. Credit: Science & Society Picture Library/SSPL via Getty Images