They found tobacco, they sold it to Europe
a phrase, generally attributed to James Otis about 1761, that reflected the resentment of American colonists at being taxed by a British Parliament to which they elected no representatives and became an anti British slogan before the American Revolution; in full, “Taxation without representation is tyranny.
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Many who settled in the New World came to escape religious persecution. New World grains such as corn kept the colonists from starving while, in Virginia, tobacco was found to be a valuable cash crop.
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