<P> The economy of the Colony was another problem . Gold had never been found, and efforts to introduce profitable industries in the colony had all failed until John Rolfe introduced his two foreign types of tobacco: Orinoco and Sweet Scented . These produced a better crop than the local variety and with the first shipment to England in 1612, the customers enjoyed the flavor, thus making tobacco a cash crop that established Virginia's economic viability . </P> <P> The First Anglo - Powhatan War ended when Rolfe married Pocahontas in 1614 . </P> <P> George Yeardley took over as Governor of Virginia in 1619 . He ended one - man rule and created a representative system of government with the General Assembly, the first elected legislative assembly in the New World . </P> <P> Also in 1619, the Virginia Company sent 90 single women as potential wives for the male colonists to help populate the settlement . That same year the colony acquired a group of "twenty and odd" Angolans, brought by two English privateers . They were probably the first Africans in the colony . They, along with many European indentured servants helped to expand the growing tobacco industry which was already the colony's primary product . Although these black men were treated as indentured servants, this marked the beginning of America's history of slavery . Major importation of enslaved Africans by European slave traders did not take place until much later in the century . </P>

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