Southern Colonies Plantation System and Cash Crops: Tobacco Exercise

Southern Colonies Plantation System and Cash Crops: Tobacco

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Southern Colonies Plantation System and Cash Crops: Tobacco

Examine the plantation system in the Southern Colonies and how tobacco became a primary cash crop.

Questions

  1. MultiChoice

    What was the main cash crop of the Chesapeake colonies (Virginia and Maryland)?

  2. MultiChoice

    What defines a 'cash crop' in colonial agriculture?

  3. MultiChoice

    How did intensive tobacco farming affect the soil in Virginia?

  4. MultiChoice

    Who introduced a profitable sweet strain of tobacco to Jamestown?

  5. MultiChoice

    Why did tobacco plantations require large labor forces?

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    How did tobacco planters transport their heavy crop barrels to merchant ships?

  7. MultiChoice

    What major shift occurred in the Southern labor force in the late 1600s?

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    Why did towns and urban trade centers develop more slowly in the Southern Colonies?

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    What was the primary destination for Southern tobacco exports under British law?

  10. MultiChoice

    How did the Headright System encourage the expansion of tobacco plantations?

  11. MultiChoice

    What crop product was so valuable it was used as a official form of currency in colonial Virginia?

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    What type of land was best suited for establishing a profitable tobacco plantation?