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Where is indigo grown?

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The plant indigo the people of the southern colonies used is grown on large farms.

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What crops were grown in the upper south and what crops were grown in the deep south?

In the upper South, crops such as tobacco, wheat, and corn were commonly grown. In the Deep South, cash crops like cotton, rice, sugarcane, and indigo were predominantly cultivated due to the region's more favorable climate and conditions for their growth.


A plant grown in the Southern colonies that yields a deep blue?

The plant you are describing in Indigo, prized throughout the world and the source of Royal purple worn by the crowned heads of Europe. It was grown in South Carolina, first brought to that colony from the island of Antigua by Eliza Lucas who first raised it on her father's plantation Wapoo near the present city of Charleston. Indigo was so valuble that between the rice and indigo Charleston became for a short while the richest city in the colonies.


What are grown on plantations during civil war?

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What crops were grown in the South in 1800's?

A huge one was cotton as it stimulated the southern economy, but before that, the south mainly grew tobacco, indigo, and other foods like corn.


What are exports and imports of the southern colonies?

The three major ones were tobacco, cotton and indigo, as these brought in the most money from Britain, who was the Southern colonies dominant trade partner. These would've been grown on huge plantations which were worked by slaves.