Luckily, tobacco saved the young colony. It was easy to grow tobacco in Virginia, and smoking was becoming very fashionable. People in the colony stopped looking for gold and began to grow tobacco, which they sold in Europe. Soon they started to bring people from Africa to work as their slaves and help them to grow more and more.
John smith travelled north in 1614 to the part of America that he called New England. When he returned to London, he told people that it was a good place to live. In 1620,another group of 101 English man, women and children arrived in Plymouth,Massachusetts. These people are called the Pilgrims or Pilgrim Fathers',and they had very strong ideas about religion.