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    colonies. Each different area was responsible for providing different goods or services for the others. The southern colonies were based off of production of large cash crops on plantations. The middle colonies had land that was fertile to grow small local farms, but didn't have the capability to handle the size or labor of a cash crop. The New England colonies were a big religious experiment. They were the first time anyone had really had religious freedom…

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    farmers faced a huge task of cleaning their crops. This slow process prevented cotton from being considered as a cash crop. At the time, tobacco and indigo were considered the South’s cash crops. Farmers realized that tobacco was difficult to grow as well as being very hard on the land. Tobacco farming easily wore out the land forcing farmers to allow the land to recuperate its nutrients once every 7 years. Another major factor that pushed cotton as a cash crop was the fact that cotton can…

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    laws to grow cash crops and devastate land and the markets, resulting in the death of millions of people because of the famine the British produced, and gave them no education.…

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    Although there were many little good things that came out of british imperialism there were few but huge terrible things that came out of it too. So the large bad effects such as not letting the indians govern themselves, the forcing of indians to grow cash…

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    Cotton-based society and economy The South was a cotton-based society. Many plantations were located in the South and cotton was their most common cash crop. This cash crop made their society also a cotton-based economy. Because of this cash crop, cotton, slave labor increased to pick cotton and have it separated by the cotton gin. The South’s economy relied on cash crops, especially cotton. Life of an average white farmer The life of an average white farmer was to maintain the wheat fields and…

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    the climate. Some of the southern colony farms grew many cash crops that were sold for profit. Some of the cash crops that they grew were tobacco, rice, and indigo. Down sides to growing these cash crops were that they required a lot of work to produce and harvest. Another disadvantage with the sale of these cash crops was that everything that southern colonies grew had to be sold to England and no one else. In order for them to grow these crops, the English sailors had to abduct many African…

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    differed in the way lived there life than the South. Due to the North's climate and geography they couldn't grow cash crops like the South could. They Couldn't plant cash crops because the grounds up North were more rocky than the South. The weather also was a struggle because they had cold snowy winters and warm summers which…

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    I think what happened as a result of Muhammad Ali’s agriculture reform was that it made a big impact on the future of modernization of Egypt. He and other rulers knew they would have to adjust to the modern world or be consumed by it. Egypt initiated political and social reforms partly to block European domination of its land. Muhammad Ali was the leader after Napoleon failed to win Egypt. Beginning in 1831, he fought a series of battles in which he gained control of Syria and Arabia.…

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    they farmed tobacco, indigo, and rice. There are two main reasons that slavery began to succeed in the colonies: the decreased use of indentured servants, and the growing popularity of cultivating cash crops in America. Slavery was common in the colonies partially because plantations that grew cash crops such as tobacco were common. Of course, to turn the most profit, plantation owners wanted the cheapest labor possible…

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    caused it is then the most threatening to American society. This machine is the cotton gin. At the turn of the 19th century America was growing both in geographical size and in economy. In the south this economic expansion took the shape of a new “cash crop” called cotton. The southern United States had the perfect environment to grow cotton, and plenty of land to do it by since vast expanses of land in Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and…

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