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The primary plantation crop of South Carolina?

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  1. Rice and indigo, with rice being the main crop.  Tobacco and cotton were also grown.


  2. rice

  3. Rice was the largest cash crop. Cotton, tobacco, and indigo were the primary crops beginning in the 1600s.  Since other colonies supplied the majority of the tobacco industry, South Carolina looked to rice to fuel their economy. "The Civil War began in 1861 and most rice plantations were either destroyed in the war or sold by their impoverished owners who could not pay the taxes. During the 1800's, markets again changed with cotton blanketing the landscape and providing the foundation for a vibrant textile industry. Cotton covered the countryside like snow from year to year, until finally reaching a record high of 2.8 million acres in 1918."

  4. Rice created the largest, richest planation economies up to the time of the Civil War.  Cotton was second, specifically a type of cotton still known as "sea island cotton", based on the intercoastal islands where the soil and climate conditions created a rich, long staple cotton.

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