Thesis/ outline redo

When the colonists needed tobacco during Bacon's rebellion they looked to the Virginians to meet their needs, which in turn made more money for them but didn't spare much land for tobacco growth.

I. Tobacco production and trade by Virginians increased during Bacon's rebellion.

A.This first section will introduce how the Virginians produced and traded tobacco.

1.)The Virginians stuck to a tight work schedule; working long days to keep up with the demands for tobacco.
>source: " A demanding crop, tobacco required close attention and a great deal of hand labor year-round." (p. 77 roark)
2.)Trading tobacco was getting better for the Virginians, now that the colonists wanted more tobacco.

B.The Virginians needed to make new land to plant more tobacco

1.)They had to clear land that wasn't being used or that wasn't very useful, to start new tobacco fields.
>source: "Girdling brought sun-light to clearings but left fields studded with tree stumps, making the use of plows impractical." (p. 77 roark)

2.)Clearing the land for new tobacco fields included cutting down trees and leaving the stumps, everything else had to go.
>source: "Like the Indians, the colonists "cleared" fields by cutting a ring of bark from each tree (a procedure known as girdling)" (p. 77 roark)

3.)Once they had more land they started planting tobacco; that they would later profit off of by selling it to the colonists.
>source: "To plant, a visitor observed, they "just make holes (with a stick) into which they drop the seeds," much as the Indians did." (p. 77 roark)

II. The Virginians next step was to start developing land for new tobacco fields.

A. This next section will cover why the colonist demanded tobacco during Bacon's rebellion.

1.)Colonists and Europeans demanded more tobacco because it was popular and it was common for the upper class to smoke more tobacco.
>source: " Smoking was the most common form of tobacco consumption in the 1700s, and smokers needed far more than tobacco to light up. They needed pipes, and hundreds of pipe makers supplied them with millions of ceramic pipes." (p. 81 roark)

2.)They also believed that smoking tobacco and using snuff was good for your health, especially in large amounts.
>source: " Physicians praised it as a wonder drug. One proclaimed that " to seek to tell the virtues and greatness of this holy herb, the ailments which can be cured by it, and have been, the evils from which it has saved thousands would be to go on to infinity... This precious herb is so general a human need (that it is) not only for the sick but for the healthy." (p. 80 roark)

B. How consumption changed the cost of tobacco.

1.) When the Europeans realized that more and more people were consuming tobacco, the cost went down, making it affordable to pretty much anyone.
>source: " The low prices made possible by bumper crops harvested by planters in the Chesapeake transformed tobacco consumption in England and elsewhere in Europe." (p.81 roark)

2.) The profit of tobacco wouldn't go down if they sold more, even at a lower price.

III: How does tobacco production and trade relate to present day, 2008?

A. Tobacco production today is a much more unified system so to speak, we have machines doing most of the work and trucks delivering it to major dealers of tobacco. For example; grocery stores, gas stations, and smoke shops.

1.) Production in the early 1600s was much like it is today; many of the ways that tobacco was produced, we still follow the same steps to producing tobacco.
>source: "The steps include: 1) transplant production; 2) field growing; 3) harvest; 4) curing; and 5) marketing." (http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/tobacco.html).