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.
The Jamestown settlement was almost abandoned. â  John Rolfe discovered that tobacco grew well in the southern climate. â  Tobacco and rice became the major cash crops of the southern colonies. â  These cash crops were grown on large plantations of land that needed large numbers of workers. â  Indentured servants were first used.