The warm climate of the Tidewater region provided ideal agricultural conditions to grow crop for both Native Americans and European settlers alike. European settlers cultivated crops such as cotton, sugar, and rice to export to England.
Hemp.
Native Americans first taught European settlers to grow corn in the early 17th century, particularly in the regions of New England and the Chesapeake. The Powhatan Confederacy taught English settlers in Virginia, while the Wampanoag tribe shared agricultural techniques with the Pilgrims in Massachusetts around 1620. Corn, or maize, became a staple crop for the settlers, significantly influencing their survival and agricultural practices.
The settlers grew tobacco as their cash crop. This got them a lot of money.
They did not practice crop rotation. The soil be lacking in nutrients, crops wouldn't grow and without the crop roots, the soil became very mobile in the wind.
The settlers decided to grow tobacco as a cash crop, since it was suited to the soils of the Virginia region.
The settlers decided to grow tobacco as a cash crop, since it was suited to the soils of the Virginia region.
corn
sugar cane
Settlers in Brazil grew sugarcane as their first crop. The crops were labor intensive which was a catalyst for bringing in slave labor.
Hemp
Tobacco.
Tobacco was the "cash crop" of the Virginia Colony during the 17th century.
The warm climate of the Tidewater region provided ideal agricultural conditions to grow crop for both Native Americans and European settlers alike. European settlers cultivated crops such as cotton, sugar, and rice to export to England.
Tobacco.
Tobacco.
In addition to food crops to feed the colonists, Virginia's BIG crop was tobacco.