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OpenStudy (ashton_bishop):

Which cash crop was the largest export from the South just before the Civil War? cotton sugar rice tobacco

OpenStudy (gracygirl):

Do you have an idea as to the answer?

OpenStudy (ashton_bishop):

cotton or tobacco i think

OpenStudy (ashton_bishop):

maybe rice

OpenStudy (gracygirl):

You're correct, it's cotton. Tobacco was big when the settlers first moved to the US, but most plantations grew cotton. Tobacco was #2.

OpenStudy (ashton_bishop):

okay thx

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