Well, actually the southern plantations grew only a single cash crop. Which was tobacco, then when the middle passage, and the slaves came to the south, tobacco was no longer the cash crop. It was cotton
The economy of the southern states(not colonies) was dependent on large plantations due to the production of cotton, the souths cash crop during the 1800's.
Cash crops needed a lot of people to work them and slavery was cheap.
Depending on the time period, one of the most successful crops in America was cotton.
its a cash crop
Crops grown on plantations include cotton, coffee, tobacco, sugar cane, sisal, and various oil seeds and rubber trees.
The economy of the southern states(not colonies) was dependent on large plantations due to the production of cotton, the souths cash crop during the 1800's.
The South was a cash crop economy of cotton and tobacco.
Tobacco was the best cash crop in the southern colonies :P
No. Plantations were only in the south and not the middle colonies. They had small cash crop farms.
Cash crops needed a lot of people to work them and slavery was cheap.
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The cash crop list from several southern colonies included rice, corn, tea and coffee. However, tobacco was the main cash crop in most colonies.
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in the southern colonies,the farming there was done on plantations. there were humongous plantations there. on the plantations, they grew cash crops. they grew crops such as indigo and rice. the most popular crop was tobacco. as jobs, people worded as ship builders, iron workers, slave catchers, and slave drivers.
Rice was not a cash crop for the southern colonies but tobacco, indigo, and corn wheat were. In addition, perhaps the biggest cash crop grown in the southern colonies was cotton. The South grew to rely so heavily on cotton and the money it generated that it began to direct their society, leading to the Southern dependence on slavery.