it helped them die the cloths they made
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Rice was not a cash crop for the southern colonies but tobacco, indigo, and corn wheat were. In addition, perhaps the biggest cash crop grown in the southern colonies was cotton. The South grew to rely so heavily on cotton and the money it generated that it began to direct their society, leading to the Southern dependence on slavery.
The South was a cash crop economy of cotton and tobacco.
cotton on most plantations though you could also argue tobacco for Virginia which is a Southern Colony
Agriculture became the main focus in the Southern Colonies' economy because without agriculture they wouldn't have their cash crops like indigo,rice,and tobacco.They then wouldn't have food to eat or sell so they wouldn't get money.