WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The first cash crop which helped America’s economy grow is tobacco. Tobacco grew very well in the early Thirteen British-American Colonies, this crop was especially prevalent in Virginia, people would immigrate to come work in the tobacco fields.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Tobacco was one of the most important crops in colonial America; it was the main reason that Jamestown and North Carolina remained viable in the 1600s and 1700s.

Detailed explanation-4: -The crops that were grown were called cash crops because they were harvested for the specific purpose of selling to others. 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.

Detailed explanation-5: -Tobacco formed the basis of the colony’s economy: it was used to purchase the indentured servants and enslaved laborers to cultivate it, to pay local taxes and tithes, and to buy manufactured goods from England.