SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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Indigo
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Tobacco
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rice
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Oranges
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Detailed explanation-1: -Examples of typical food and non-food cash crops are cereals, oilseeds, coffee, cocoa, sugar cane, vegetables and fruits (e.g. avocado and oranges), peanuts, cotton and tobacco.
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: -Cereal and pulses come under the category of food crops (subsistence crops) not cash crops. A food plant, which is grown by farmers for use by themselves and their families, not for profit or trade is known as a subsistence crop. The cereals comprise rice, wheat, bajra, rice, maize, and jowar.