By 1610, the Jamestown settlement looked like a failure. What saved it?
a. A series of successful wars against the neighboring Indians
b. The discovery that a strain of tobacco could be grown there
c. An end to the drought that had ruined the settlers' harvests
d. The arrival of a new governor, John Rolfe
ANSWER: b
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