USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The cash crops of the southern colonies included cotton, tobacco, rice, and indigo (a plant that was used to create blue dye). In Virginia and Maryland, the main cash crop was tobacco. In South Carolina and Georgia, the main cash crops were indigo and rice.

Detailed explanation-2: -The dried leaves of the tobacco plant became the major cash crop in colonial Virginia after John Rolfe brought the seeds of a South American variety, Nicotiana tabacum, to Virginia in 1612.

Detailed explanation-3: -While at first tobacco was grown in much larger quantities in Virginia and Maryland (the first and second largest colonial producers, respectively), North Carolina also grew the crop, and was ranked third among the colonies in tobacco production.

Detailed explanation-4: -Colonial Period But tobacco was the most important commercial crop in colonial North Carolina. Tobacco at this period was primarily a Virginia and Maryland crop (ranked 1 and 2), followed by with a few North Carolina (ranked 3rd) counties near Albemarle Sound also producing tobacco.

Detailed explanation-5: -Tobacco became the principal and characteristic crop of the Chesapeake region shortly after the establishment of the English colony of Maryland in 1634 and it was the dominant cash crop in Calvert County for more than 350 years.