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  2. Tobacco in the American colonies - Wikipedia

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    Tobacco cultivation and exports formed an essential component of the American colonial economy. It was distinct from rice, wheat, cotton and other cash crops in terms of agricultural demands, trade, slave labor, and plantation culture. Many influential American revolutionaries, including Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, owned tobacco ...

  3. History of tobacco - Wikipedia

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    History of tobacco. Tobacco was long used in the early Americas. The arrival of Spain introduced tobacco to the Europeans, and it became a lucrative, heavily traded commodity to support the popular habit of smoking. Following the Industrial Revolution, cigarettes became hugely popular worldwide.

  4. Tobacco colonies - Wikipedia

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    Tobacco colonies. The tobacco colonies were those that lined the sea-level coastal region of English North America known as Tidewater, extending from a small part of Delaware south through Maryland and Virginia into the Albemarle Sound region of North Carolina (the Albemarle Settlements). During the seventeenth century, the European demand for ...

  5. Columbian exchange - Wikipedia

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    The Columbian exchange, also known as the Columbian interchange, was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the New World (the Americas) in the Western Hemisphere, and the Old World (Afro-Eurasia) in the Eastern Hemisphere, in the late 15th and following centuries. It is named after the Italian explorer Christopher ...

  6. Tobacco in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Overall, it is estimated that 5.66 million adults in the US population reported current vaping 2.3%. From those users in the population, more than 2.21 million were current cigarette smokers (39.1%), more than 2.14 million were former smokers (37.9%), and more than 1.30 million were never smokers (23.1%). [9]

  7. The Columbian Exchange - Wikipedia

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    978-0837172286. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 is a 1972 book by Alfred W. Crosby on the Columbian exchange, coining that term and helping to found the field of environmental history. The exchange was of cultivated plants, domestic animals, diseases, and human culture between the Old World and the New World ...

  8. History of commercial tobacco in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The history of commercial tobacco production in the United States dates back to the 17th century when the first commercial crop was planted. The industry originated in the production of tobacco for British pipes and snuff. See Tobacco in the American colonies. In late 18th century there was an increase in demand for tobacco in the United States ...

  9. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created - Wikipedia

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    D228 .M36 2011. Preceded by. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created is a nonfiction book by Charles C. Mann first published in 2011. [1] It covers the global effects of the Columbian Exchange, following Columbus's first landing in the Americas, that led to our current globalized ...