USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In Virginia and Maryland, the main cash crop was tobacco. In South Carolina and Georgia, the main cash crops were indigo and rice. The cash crops grown in each colony depended on which crop grew best in that colonies’ type of soil.

Detailed explanation-2: -While tobacco then was the main crop, wheat, corn, fruits and vegetables also were farmed.

Detailed explanation-3: -The most important cash crop in Colonial America was tobacco, first cultivated by the English at their Jamestown Colony of Virginia in 1610 CE by the merchant John Rolfe (l. 1585-1622 CE).

Detailed explanation-4: -After the colony of Maryland was founded in 1634, tobacco quickly became its chief money crop. In Maryland and Virginia, the leaf became legal currency.