USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The cultivation of sugar cane in the Americas required large numbers of laborers. In the 15th century, Spanish and Portuguese planters attempted to enslave Indigenous peoples in the Americas to work on the sugar plantations.

Detailed explanation-2: -What crops were grown in the Americas that were labor-intensive and helped lead to the slave trade? Sugar cane, tobacco, and cotton. Tribalism in Africa led to intense competition and warfare amongst tribes.

Detailed explanation-3: -The sugar-growing regions of the Americas always imported more African slaves than did any other regions in the Americas. Cultivating sugar was deadly work. The decline of the slave population was the norm in the sugar-producing regions of the Americas. It was also a particularly lucrative crop.

Detailed explanation-4: -Colonial farming: 1610–1775. The first settlers in Plymouth Colony planted barley and peas from England but their most important crop was Indian corn (maize) which they were shown how to cultivate by the native Squanto. To fertilize this crop, they used small fish which they called herrings or shads.

Detailed explanation-5: -English planters first began growing sugarcane in Barbados in the 1640s, using a mixture of convicts and prisoners from the British Isles and enslaved people from Africa. Sugar agriculture was very profitable and it quickly spread throughout the Caribbean and to Louisiana and Mississippi in North America.