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Spices, tea, coffee, cotton, tobacco...
sugar,slaves, rum
Using the early American colonies as a basis for this question, there were two major exports from the American colonies that went to Great Britain and other European nations. One was a new crop called tobacco. The second one, was cotton. The Southern colonies had an ideal climate for cotton and it soon surpassed tobacco as THE major export.
1. cotton 2. indigo 3. molasses/ brandy 4. rice 5.lumber/navel stores 6. sugar
The middle Colonies were known as the "Breadbasket Colonies" because of their large exports of grains to other colonies and Europe.
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Indigo, rice, tobacco, but mostly cotton.
output and exports
Rum was one of the largest exports.
Only North Carolina was.
Indigo, rice, tobacco, but mostly cotton.
Cash crops , indigo , rice and tabacco
Spices, tea, coffee, cotton, tobacco...
sugar,slaves, rum
The basis of the economy in the Southern American colonies was tobacco and cotton exports. As the colonies expanded westward, and later when much of the South was part of the USA, cotton exports expanded. There was demand for cotton in England as well as in the New England textile mills.