"In American history, the cash crop led to an increase in employment in the labor force. This effected both American culture and politics. To keep up with the high demand of tobacco they had to turn to slavery to supply them with the production needed to keep up (Berkin, 2015)."
How did this affect the political situation in the Chesapeake in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? What changes were brought about politically due to the cultivation of tobacco and the use of slavery?