AQA GCSE History · 8145
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- Revise: Colonisation in North America
A crop grown mainly to sell rather than to feed the people growing it.
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GCSE History · key term
A crop grown mainly to be sold rather than consumed by the people growing it.
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A crop grown mainly to sell rather than to feed the people growing it.
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Tobacco was a cash crop: it was grown for sale rather than primarily to feed the growers. It was the principal cash product of the Chesapeake region, especially Virginia and Maryland. Chesapeake tobacco production rose from roughly 20 million pounds in 1700 to 50 million pounds in 1730, showing the scale of its growth around this period.
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A crop grown mainly to be sold rather than consumed by the people who grow it, such as sugar, tobacco or rice.
Revise: The Development of the Slave-Based EconomyBy 1688, England’s colonies in the Caribbean and North America were already important sources of goods for Atlantic trade. Their economic value rested partly on cash crops: crops grown for sale rather than mainly to feed the people cultivating them. Caribbean colonies such as Barbados produced sugar, while Virginia and Maryland, in the Chesapeake region of North America, produced tobacco.