Jamestown was the first American Colony, the British settled there 13 years before the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth - Massachusetts. Jamestown colony was sponsored by the Virginia Company of London, because of that a group of investors wanted to profit - search for wealth - then when they settled in the Colony, they started to plant tobacco around 1613.
The tobacco industry pushed the growth of the Virginia colony because it’s growth demanded a lot of hand-workers.
For the religion, the investors of the Virginia Company were members of the Church of England - Protestantism - Therefore, Protestantism was the religion in Jamestown and became the prominent religion in Virginia.
