American Tobacco

1.     What do you think would be different about North American colonies and the rest of the world, if tobacco wasn’t as popular as it was/is?

-       It would be completely different because tobacco was the reason that people stick around for. The first few groups of people there were barely surviving, after a while, if there was no real profit made, they would call it quits and turn around. After there were less noble men (who didn’t want to work) and more working men, the northern “new world” began to serve a purpose. If the English men didn’t make use of the land and quit, I think Spain would try to reclaim the land as rightfully theirs and eventually do something useful with it.

2.     If the protestations of the King had been more heeded by the masses and tobacco gone out of fashion, would the English colonies have remained as strong?

-       No because the English colonies had absolutely nothing else to offer other than tobacco. I think the English colonies would eventually have died out because they were so hungry, there were a lot of diseases and Indian attacks.