The Spread of Tobacco Farming in Seventeenth-Century Virginia

The spread of tobacco farming in seventeenth-century Virginia

A) discouraged land speculation and reduced the demand for field labor.
B) led to a decline in profits for the colonial government and the crown.
C) helped to create a highly unequal society, dominated economically and politically by an elite plantation-owning class.
D) led to a remarkably equal, socially unified society, centered on networks of closely connected towns.
E) impoverished the landholding elite and allowed poor laborers to acquire most of the land.