During the time period 1450 to 1750, the world went through major change and development. Nomadic power declined, and European Kingdoms became world powers. A world trade network was set up as contact amongst nations increased immensely. A population boom occurred throughout the world. Many civilizations that were once isolated were brought into the world economy. The Americas unknown until Christopher Columbus’ voyage in 1492 became a major part of the world economy as many European nations colonized much of the land. Large sea trade arose during this time period first by the Portuguese and Spanish and later by the English, French and Dutch. As European countries began exploring the Americas, an exchange of crops, animals, raw materials, diseases and new ideas were exchanged between the Americas and the rest of the world. This is known as the Columbian Exchange. One major component of the Columbian Exchange was the discovery of tobacco. Tobacco was first discovered in the Americas and became as cash crop. It was imported back to Europe, where it became vastly popular. As many middle class Europeans people began smoking, the demand for more tobacco from the Americas increased; colonies were set up to produce tobacco. With the demand for tobacco so high, labor was needed to farm the crop causing slaves to be imported. There is no exact date to when the discovery of tobacco occurred, but tobacco dates as far back to the Mayans and Aztecs. The Mayans burned tobacco as incense on the tribute altars to please the gods. The Aztecs used the smoke of tobacco in ceremonies were captives were slain in sacrifice to the god Tezcatlipoca. Tobacco was believed to be a curing drug that would relive pain. The first European that saw tobacco ... ... middle of paper ... ...he cheapest option, as plantation owners did not have to pay them. From 1690-1750 the Chesapeake slave population grew from 7% to 35%. To summerize, the discovery of tobacco in the Americas had lasting effects on the world. Across Europe, many began smoking because of the belief that tobacco was able to cure certain ailments. Also, tobacco became a symbol of high class so we see that many middle class people began to smoke. The demand in Europe for tobacco became very high causing the production of tobacco in the Americas to increase. Colonies were set up containing large plantations with many slaves to produce tobacco. Tobacco production made the producers very rich as the cash crop was very desirable. From the use of tobacco in ceremonies for the Aztecs and Mayans to the mass production of the crop in the Americas, tobacco created much change across the world.
Columbian Exchange DBQ As we all know from the memorable song, in 1492 Columbus sailed to find the New World, commonly known as the Americas. Many idolize Columbus for his accomplishments in colonizing the Americas and starting the Columbian Exchange. The Columbian Exchange is the sharing of plants, animals, diseases, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Western and Eastern Hemispheres as a direct result of Columbus’ arrival to the Americas. However, we often oversee the downfalls of the Columbian Exchange.
After Virginia, Maryland was the second plantation colony formed in 1634 and it also prospered economically from growing tobacco. In the West Indies, they flourished by growing sugar, and the Carolinas with rice. Countless African slaves were brought over in large numbers to provide labor in the growing plantations since the demand for cash crops rose. Slavery was used in all the plantation colonies.
John Rolfe played a major role in history in 1614 when he found a way to harvest tobacco. The tobacco crop is what restored Jamestown, Virginia and it would not exist today without this cash crop. Restoring Jamestown is not the only significance the tobacco crop holds; it is also responsible for the early stages of slavery. Since tobacco became the cash crop of Virginia, it was more in demand. There was a shortage of laborers to plant and harvest the tobacco crop and as a result settlers were unable to meet the European quota for tobacco. Since it was increasing in demand more laborers were needed to maintain these large plantations ; therefore more indentured servants were needed. The higher the demand for tobacco, the higher demand for laborers. Company agents advertised a few years of labor bondage and exchange would receive a new and better life in America. In 1619, the first Africans came to Jamestown. They came...
Tobacco was a main crop in colonial America that helped stabilize the economy (Cotton 1). Despite the fact that tobacco took the place of the other crops in Virginia, as well as replacing the hunt for gold with tobacco cultivation. It proved to be a major cash crop, especially in Virginia and Maryland (Weeks 3). Tobacco left many people financially troubled because other occupations were disregarded or not as profitable as tobacco farmers (Randel 128). The unemployment that tobacco brought about made many colonists poor and homeless (128). After the tobacco boom started, many men signed themselves to indentured servitude hoping to be freed and given land along with other promised goods (Tunis 79). Three hundred and fifty thousand African slaves were also imported to labor on large tobacco plantations in the South (Weeks 1). The tobacco industry had a profound effect on colonial America, socially and economically.
Tobacco usage was wide spread because it was cheap, homegrown, and duty free. Short, thick, clay pipes were used, although snuff and powdered tobacco were inhaled.
Specific Purpose: At the end of my speech, the audience will know about smokeless tobacco and the risks involved with using smokeless tobacco products.
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In the United States, tobacco was the main source that drove the economy for hundreds of years starting as early as the 15th century. Caucasians weren 't going to harvest the tobacco so they needed to find
On Washington Duke’s 300-acre farm in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1865 the first commercial cigarettes was made. When cigarettes were first invented they were given to the soldiers during the Civil War and it was not until James Bonsack invented the cigarette-making machine in 1881 that cigarette smoking became widespread (http://healthliteracy.worlded.org/docs/tobacco/Tobacco.pdf). During this time no one truly understood the dangers of smoking cigarettes because they had not began to see the side affects caused by the dangerous toxins produced by them. There are thousands of individual substances in tobacco smoke and approximately 150 of those individual substances have been identified as toxicants or otherwise named as harmful and potentially
Tobacco and smoking were not always used how they are today. Back around 600 to 900 A.D. many cultures grew tobacco and Native Americans would smoke and use it within religious ceremonies and for medical uses (History of Tobacco). Toward the middle of the 1800’s American’s started to smoke tobacco occasionally either from a pipe or a cigarette; not like people smoke today was very occasional stated in the History of Tobacco. The first main stream production of cigarettes began in 1865 but were made for soldiers in the Civil War. In 1881 that is when business picked up and everyone started smoking more frequently due to the mass amount of cigarettes being produced and the access to them (History of Tobacco).
Tobacco is highly addictive, and people who have smoked for many years show a higher death rate then non-smokers. Smokers lose an average of twenty to twenty five years of their lives compared to most non-smokers. To all the mothers out there children with parents who smoke have a higher risk of respiratory symptoms and have an increased frequency of bronchitis and pneumonia. Smoking effect many teen they get started at such a young age they don't stop to think about what it might do to them. Many teens underestimate their risk of death or endangering their health and creating an addiction that they will regret. Teens tend to ignore or think they will never get lung cancer or heart problems. Maybe they are thinking they can smoke until they get older, and have kids and a family then stop, but it is not that easy. When a person smokes a tobacco product, they inhale the smoke which contains nicotine as well as over five hundred chemicals. The person gets addicted to the nicotine, they feel as if they need nicotine in order to function normally. Another dangerous substance in smoking is carbon monoxide, which can cause heart problems.
Tobacco has a cultivation history of about 8000 years. It was first cultivated in the Americas, where it was used for religious purposes – tobacco was seen as a gift from the Creator and smoking it was seen as a way of carrying one's prayers to the Spirits. When Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas in 1492, in the interior part of Cuba, he found the natives burning the leaves of the tobacco plant and inhaling the smoke
It’s a beautiful day outside the suns out, birds are chirping, and kids are out to play; however, you are under an abnormal amount of stress so in order to “reduce” stress you pull out a cigarette and begin to smoke. Instantly your body receives a sense of relief and your troubles seem to float away with the smoke, however this is hardly the case. That cigarette smoke you are inhaling has the ability to give you a sense of stress relief because of one of its most important ingredients Nicotine. Nicotine is a naturally occurring organic compound, referred to as an alkaloid, found in the leaves of Nicotiana tabacum and is know to be one of the most addictive alkaloids next to morphine.
It should be considered that tobacco is already deeply rooted and firmly established into global customs, traditions, and cultures. This establishment in culture includes the use of tobacco in developed first-world to undeveloped third-world countries around the globe. It has been estimated that there are approximately 1.3 billion tobacco users worldwide, 82 percent being from second or third world countries (ASH, 2009). According to the Centre of Disease Control & Prevention, it is estimated that 40 million Americans currently smoke tobacco products (2016). A more specific use of tobacco products that challenges the force of policy is the use in ceremonial belief, specifically those of the Native Americans. The use of tobacco by Native Americans is ancient and has a significant spiritual meaning of their people, ancestors, and gods (Godlaski, 2012). This large prevalence of users proves that it is also ingrained in third world culture for socialization and tradition. Due to the fact that the global population of tobacco users are already addicted and will always find the means to get access to tobacco, it is not logical to attempt to limit the use of a recreational, therapeutic, and religious
Tobacco is the common name of the plant Nicotiana tabacum and to a limited extent Nicotiana rustica and the cured leaf that is used, usually after aging and processing in various ways for smoking, chewing, snuffing and the extraction of nicotine, the principal alkaloid of tobacco.(4) The species N. tabacum has never been found to grow in the wild.(1) The use of the word tobacco is generally accepted as referring to the products of the tabacum species and so it will be in what follows. Tobacco holds an unparalleled position among crop plants in the world such as: