What was the first cash crop in America?
The first cash crop which helped America’s economy grow is tobacco. Tobacco grew very well in the early Thirteen British-American Colonies, this crop was especially prevalent in Virginia, people would immigrate to come work in the tobacco fields. With the population growing and money coming back into the economy, the colonies began to grow rapidly. Cash crops were one of the main reasons the United States is where it is today. Production of tobacco was one of the major reasons the early British-American Colonies grew as large as they did due to the influx of money into their economy. By the year 1630, the amount of tobacco sent from the Colonies to Great Britain totaled about 1.5 million pounds a year.
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Howard Groopman
The world would have been a better place without tobacco.
Stephen W. Gerrard
And, due to the scarcity of money, people were sometimes paid with tobacco.
JRW
Denise Currie, initially slavery was not used. But it did become a major factor in tobacco production.
JRW
Helga U. Williams, Emigrate means to leave one's country to live in another. Immigrate is to come into another country to live permanently.
Mr Guppy
L Lh Adams, But they are South Americans,Canadian American,North Americans and Central Americans. Then there is Americans in The United States.
L Lh Adams
My family grew Tobacco starting in the 1790's. It was still grown until my Grandfather died in the '80s.
L Lh Adams
Cheryl Love, I have been to Central and South America,and they do not call themselves Americans.
Karin Johansson
Andrew King, Maize was not a cash crop!
Helga U. Williams
They emigrated to come to work. Immigrant is a noun. Emigrate is the verb! It seems that even authors can never get this right!
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Cheryl Love
skrueger, ‘America’ is a big place, not just USA.
skrueger
Cheryl Love, There was no USA when the first cash crop grown in America was sold.
Denise Currie
Howard Groopman, and the slavery used to harvest it
Jacqueline Tattam
Harrison Linda, Linda makes the same comment…again…ad nauseam….