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How was Jamestown (and the Virginia colony) different agriculturally from the Plymouth Colony (and Massachusetts)?

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Jamestown colony was different agriculturally from the Plymouth colony because of the climatic condition and the state of the soil.

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Jamestown became the first permanent English settlement in America, founded in 1607. The Virginia colony became a success by exporting Indian Tobacco to England. John Rolfe attempts on cultivating and experimenting with Indian Tobacco in Virginia brought the settlement into successful in the British market. Eventually, the colony developed into a one-crop economy. Jamestown climatic condition allowed the settlers to grow Indian Tobacco in plantations. The Plymouth colony established by Pilgrims, who did farming grew vegetables, corn and so on. Plymouth Colony economy depended on the shipbuilding, fishing, fur, and lumber trades.

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