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 Southern Colonies had an agricultural economy. Most colonists lived on small family farms, but some owned large plantations that produced cash crops such as tobacco and rice. Many slaves worked on plantations.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tobacco formed the basis of the colony’s economy: it was used to purchase the indentured servants and slaves to cultivate it, to pay local taxes and tithes, and to buy manufactured goods from England.

Detailed explanation-4: -Tobacco is a huge cash crop in the Southern and Middle colonies. Due to the demand and supply of to-bacco prices have gone higher and lower. Tobacco is grown in the Middle and Southern colonies be-cause it is hot and there are many plantations in the Middle and Southern colonies.

Detailed explanation-5: -Typical crops grown in the North included barley, oats, and wheat. These hard-scrabble farmers also raised cattle, swine, and sheep. Those who did not farm the land turned to the seas, harvesting fish for themselves and to sell.