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Tobacco export system from the Chesapeake colonies to England (1617-1776)

Tobacco export system from the Chesapeake colonies to England (1617-1776)

  1. Rolfe’s tobacco experiments begin Virginia exports

    Labels: John Rolfe, Virginia tobacco

  2. Tobacco exports reach 20,000 pounds

    Labels: Virginia exports, Tobacco cargo

  3. Headright system expands tobacco plantation growth

    Labels: Headright system, Virginia Company

  4. First recorded Africans arrive at Point Comfort

    Labels: Point Comfort, Enslaved Africans

  5. Navigation Act restricts colonial shipping to English vessels

    Labels: Navigation Act, Parliament 1651

  6. Navigation Act lists tobacco as “enumerated” commodity

    Labels: Navigation Acts, Enumerated tobacco

  7. Virginia adopts hereditary slavery principle in law

    Labels: Partus sequitur, Virginia law

  8. Staple Act requires most European imports pass through England

    Labels: Staple Act, Parliament 1663

  9. Plantation Duty Act targets smuggling of enumerated goods

    Labels: Plantation Duty, Parliament 1673

  10. Bacon’s Rebellion highlights tobacco-price and tax pressures

    Labels: Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia uprising

  11. Virginia creates colonywide tobacco inspection and warehousing

    Labels: Virginia inspection, Public warehouses

  12. Inspection system begins operating at public warehouses

    Labels: Inspection system, Tobacco warehouses

  13. Continental Association ends tobacco export to Britain

    Labels: Continental Association, First Continental

  14. Declaration of Independence breaks imperial trade framework

    Labels: Declaration of, Imperial trade