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Colonial Cash Crops.?

1. The English did not find gold or jewels in the southern colonies. However, they did find land and a climate where they could raise crops they could not grow in England. One of these cash crops was used to make a blue dye. What was it?
a. Indigo
b. Cayenne
c. Chochineal

2. This cash crop wore out the soil quickly, but during colonial times, shaped the economy of the south. What is it?
a. turnips
b. rice
c. tobacco


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

1. a
2. c