WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The most lucrative cash crops to emerge from the Americas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were sugar, tobacco, and rice.

Detailed explanation-2: -Europeans introduced sugarcane to the New World in the 1490s. Cane plantations soon spread throughout the Caribbean and South America and made immense profits for planters and merchants. By 1750, British and French plantations produced most of the world’s sugar and its byproducts, molasses and rum.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cotton was the principal cash crop of the Deep South, and was suited to planting in central Texas as well, especially with the innovation of plow blades that could break through the tough sod of the blackland prairies.

Detailed explanation-4: -Moreover, slave labor did produce the major consumer goods that were the basis of world trade during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: coffee, cotton, rum, sugar, and tobacco. In the pre-Civil War United States, a stronger case can be made that slavery played a critical role in economic development.

Detailed explanation-5: -During the 18th century Cuba depended increasingly on the sugarcane crop and on the expansive, slave-based plantations that produced it.