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Tobacco and corn were the most important cash crops, although beans and squash were also grown.
Tobacco was grown before cotton became king. Eli Whitney's cotton gin was an important step into making cotton a marketable crop. Before growing cash crops, farmers grew food crops and plants to feed livestock.
The crops in the South were cash crops and crops in the North were consumable crops.
The southern colonies were good for farming because it was humid out.
New Hampshire grows apples, blueberries, pumpkins, squash, tomatoes, corn, cucumbers, and more.