Cash Cropd

Question 1

Why were cash crops labour intensive

Answer 1

Needed a lot of labour
There was a lot for cash crops so slaves had to work 18 hours a day to grant that demand

Question 2

Give three important facts about sugarcane

Answer 2

Produces molasses (used to make rum)
Labour intensive
Imported to southern colonies from West Indies

Question 3

Three important facts about rice

Answer 3

Difficult difficult to grow
English and European colonists had no experience of rice civilisation
Covered over 30,000 acres
Became top 10 export to England

Question 4

Four facts about tobacco

Answer 4

First plantation crop
Demand led to replacement of indentured servants with enslaved Africans
Slaves slow workplace and plant William Strickland noted slaves minimal effort. Slaves were punished

Question 5

Five facts about cotton

Answer 5

Main cash crop
Easy to store and transport
Expanded rapidly in southern colonies
For textile Mills
Increased demand for slave labour
Ellie Whitney cotton gin separated the seeds from the cotton