SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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corn and beans
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tobacco and rice
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rice and potatoes
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tomatoes and beans
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Detailed explanation-1: -They brought their knowledge of rice growing from West Africa, where rice was an important food. The other major cash crop in South Carolina and Georgia was indigo.
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: -Eastern North Carolina was once home to thousands of acres of Carolina Gold rice. And then, about a century ago, those rice fields disappeared. In Pamlico County, this heirloom crop is back-and coming to menus across the state.
Detailed explanation-4: -They raised a wide variety of vegetables and grains. You’ll recognize many of them–corn, squash, sunflowers, pumpkins, and beans. Colonial settlers adopted beneficial agricultural practices from Indians along with their crops. And we still rely on these crops today.
Detailed explanation-5: -They came to work the rice, sugar, indigo, coffee, tobacco, and cotton plantations of the British, Portuguese, and Spanish colonies. These slaves were bought at a premium to work on a South Carolina rice plantation because they brought with them specific knowledge of rice production from West Africa.