tobacco, rice, and Indigo Dye.
Cotton is a major crop in Mississippi
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.
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Depending on the time period, one of the most successful crops in America was cotton.
tobacco
The South was a cash crop economy of cotton and tobacco.
major crop of the southern colonies prior to the civil war
Tobacco and cotton were major southern crops.
Cotton was, and still is, a major crop of the southern states. During the antebellum period (the period before the Civil War), cotton was the main crop, which was planted, grown, tended and picked by the slaves. The cotton crops were what helped the southern states flourish, bringing in more money than any other crops, making the plantation owners some of the wealthiest people in the union.
The major states in the Southern US (determined by population, economy, etc.) are Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia.