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What was the first cash crop grown in the Americas (including the Carribean)? Tobacco

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America's First Cash Crop was Tobacco. The year was 1614, and the sailing ship Elizabeth was setting off from the young English colony of Jamestown, bound for London with a cargo that included four barrels of tobacco, about 4,000 pounds.

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