Communism aswell as anti-communism, socialism and liberalism, feminism and sexism,racism and antiracism, pacifism and militarism, are examples of wide-spread ideologies â which may be more or less positive or negative de-pending on our point of view or group membership.
Tobacco was the American colonies' chief export. The Jamestown colonists had not found gold, nor a route to the South Seas, nor the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island. But they had found tobacco. Tobacco had brought the settlement from wretched failure to giddying success.
In 1612 a man named John Rolfe introduced the cultivation of  tobacco to the Jamestown settlement. He obtained samples of the  Nicotiana Tabacum variety of tobacco (from aâ¦ Spanish colony  either in South America or Jamaica) which was superior to the  Nicotiana Rustica variety grown locally.