Question

What was a consequence of the increased supply of items such as tobacco and sugar in eighteenth-century north america?

Answer 1

Ordinary people purchased more luxury goods.

Answer 2

In the eighteenth-century, the purchase of more luxury goods by ordinary people was a consequence of the increased supply of items such as tobacco and sugar.

Rum, tobacco, rice, sugar, and cotton were considered luxury items in Europe. These imported “luxuries” were goods that were the fruits of slavery in the Caribbean plantations.