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What is a rated commodity?
tobacco sugar tea
What was the most profitable commodity that the Virginia colonists able to trade?
Tobacco
What was the most profitable commodity that the Virginia colonist were able to trade?
Tobacco
Was The most profitable commodity that the Virginia colonists were able to trade was corn?
no. tobacco was.
What did the tobacco boom led to?
The Tobacco Boom (a new hot commodity in the Americas) led to the use of indentured servitude and then slavery in colonial America.
Was it true The most profitable commodity that the Virginia colonists were able to trade was corn?
No it isn't. The most profitable commodity traded by Virginia colonists was tobacco. So profitable was it, that Virginia started to worry about having enough farmers growing food rather than tobacco.
How and why was cotton significant?
Cotton was one of the world's first luxury commodities, after sugar and tobacco, and was also the commodity.
Estimate cost of tobacco?
The question is poorly worded. Do you mean:the wholesale cost of tobacco leaves?the wholesale cost of prepared tobacco?the retail cost of tobacco?the cost of tobacco (and related diseases) to society?Also, the answer will depend on where in the world you are thinking of. Although tobacco is a globally traded commodity, local taxes and excise on tobacco and tobacco products vary considerably (which is one reason that smuggling is lucrative).
In the upper tier of southern states the principal slave produced commodity was?
It was Tobacco. Taboacco, the original plantation crop of the colonial period, continued to be the principle slave-cultivated commodity of the upper tier of southern states.
What was the key feature of the 1723 Act of Maryland?
The "discovery" of tobacco turned it into a cash crop for the colonies. It was a valuable luxury commodity. So much so that in the 1723 Act Of Maryland, tobacco was made a legal currency.
What is the historic significance of tobacco growing in the United States?
Historical records indicate that commercial cultivation of the crop began as early as 1612. Until cotton became king in 1803, tobacco was rated as the nation's most valuable export commodity.
What is a basic commodity?
Six agricultural crops (corn, cotton , peanuts , rice , tobacco and wheat) declared by permanent law as requiring federal price support .
