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.
Life at Jamestown In May of 1607, three small ships â the Discovery, Godspeed and Susan Constant â landed at what we know today as Jamestown. On board were 104 men and boys, plus crew members, who had left England on a bit - ter cold December day. Sailing down the Thames River with little fanfare, they were