The 2 main cash crops during the Antebellum period were cotton and rice.
During Reconstruction, a new system of farming was developed. The neo-peonage method of using tenant farmers on farms came to be known as sharecropping. The economic devastation of the south led to most of the land being used for cash crops rather than subsistence farming. Cash crops were the traditional antebellum ones like tobacco, cotton, sugar and rice.
What was the main crops in the south during 1820 and 1865?
During the colonial period the most important agricultural in the south was tobacco.
cotton
grape bannans
cotton , pecans, some say rice too
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.
they differed by the south relied on indentured servents during that time and grew crops such as tobacco and rice
In the humid areas of the South's southeastern section, rice and oranges were the main crops. For the longest period of time tobacco was a huge cash crop also. It's addictive ingredients were in demand world wide. Cotton, however, became the largest source of revenue for the South and the US as a whole.
neolithic revolution
They hoped these crops would bring more money
The neolithical revolution
During Reconstruction, a new system of farming was developed. The neo-peonage method of using tenant farmers on farms came to be known as sharecropping. The economic devastation of the south led to most of the land being used for cash crops rather than subsistence farming. Cash crops were the traditional antebellum ones like tobacco, cotton, sugar and rice.
During the colonial period, Spain extracted enormous wealth in the form of gold, silver and new crops from the Americas.
Southern
Grew crash crops such as cotton and tobacco
Grew crash crops such as cotton and tobacco