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  FAST FACTS: John Rolfe of Jamestown began planting tobacco in 1612. He developed a method that enabled tobacco to be exported, allowing it to become the leading industry in Virginia. In 1619, the House of Burgess became the first legislature in America. This group and the governor met together to create laws for the colony, laws which would serve to set a precendent and basis for future laws in other colonies, and, eventually, the states themselves.

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