alleryStart learning →Why did no towns dot the Virginia tobacco country?
ATobacco exhausted the soil so planters scattered
BTobacco needed cool uplands away from rivers
CThe company forbade settlers to build any town
DThe colonists lived aboard ships in the harbor
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Tobacco exhausted the soil so planters scattered
1. Tobacco became the staple of Virginia within a decade of the first London shipment.
2. Its cultivation exhausted the soil after several crops.
3. Planters therefore had to break new ground and scattered up and down the waterways.
4. No towns dotted the region as a result.
5. Even Jamestown, the capital of the colony, had only a few houses.
_Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section AGRICULTURE RULES THE SOUTH_
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