The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . were practically no citiesand towns of any importance inthe South until the colonies weremore than half a century old.^ The people of the Southerncolonies built few roads, and Rolling Tobacco to the the few roads which they built were not very good. Theysaw no need for good roads. There were many navigable streamsleading to the ocean, and along these the plantations were estab-lished. The tobacco was packed in hogsheads, which wererolled along to the nearest ship landing by horse power.^ As 1 Various colonial legi
The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . were practically no citiesand towns of any importance inthe South until the colonies weremore than half a century old.^ The people of the Southerncolonies built few roads, and Rolling Tobacco to the the few roads which they built were not very good. Theysaw no need for good roads. There were many navigable streamsleading to the ocean, and along these the plantations were estab-lished. The tobacco was packed in hogsheads, which wererolled along to the nearest ship landing by horse power.^ As 1 Various colonial legislatures tried to create towns and seaports by makinglaws creating them, and one may still find on a map of Virginia such names asCharles City and James City, where towns never existed. No towns came intoexistence in Virginia until years afterward. Nowadays people understand thatcities and towns are the result of commerce and not of statutory law. 2 To each head of the hogshead a trunnion was fastened, to which a wagontongue, or a pair of shafts, could be 98 THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN NATION the population increased and plantations were extended inland, itbecame more difficult to ship the tobacco. In many instances itcost almost as much, if not more, to get the tobacco from theplantation to the wharf as from the latter to the London the profit of the tobacco crop which the planter sold toEnglish merchants, he not only paid for the clothing, householdsupplies, and metal wares used, but he also had enough left tomake him rich in a few years. Practically nothing was manu-factured in the Southern colonies; even much of the lumberused in buildings was made from logs sent to England and theresawed into boards to be sent back to Virginia.
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