USA HISTORY

SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732

RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Cash crops in the English colonies such as tobacco, rice, and indigo were sold in Europe in exchange for manufactured goods that ____ ____ be produced in the colonies.
A
could not
B
must be
C
wanted to
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The colonial economy depended on international trade. American ships carried products such as lumber, tobacco, rice, and dried fish to Britain. In turn, the mother country sent textiles, and manufactured goods back to America.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Because the colonies were the property of the British Empire, they could trade exclusively with England and British interests.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the mid-eighteenth century the island colonies of Bermuda, Barbados, Jamaica, and the four Leeward Islands were the British Empire’s most valuable possessions because of the demand for sugar and its by-products, molasses and rum.

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