illegal would probably be either the selling of illegal drugs, or human trafficking.
Because it stop their illegal profitable business.
Tobacco
No
Tobacco
no. tobacco was.
No it isn't. The most profitable commodity traded by Virginia colonists was tobacco. So profitable was it, that Virginia started to worry about having enough farmers growing food rather than tobacco.
Metal
metal
Truthfully, the answer is marijuana.But since that is illegal, you probably shouldn't grow it.
The slavery trade operated and prospered because it was profitable.
The fur trade was the first profitable industry for the French in Canada.