The southern colonies were good for farming because it was humid out.
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Crops were grown in the Southern colonies because of the undeveloped land, good soil, and conducive climate that was perfect for growing crops.
To large crops produced in the Southern Colonies were rice and tobacco. Other crops that were produced in the Southern Colonies were cotton, indigo, and sugar.
The South was a cash crop economy of cotton and tobacco.
In the northern colonies such as Massachusetts, it was subsistence farming. New York had apple orchards. The middle colonies had wheat. Virginia had tobacco and the southern colonies had cotton and sometimes rice and indigo.
The plant indigo the people of the southern colonies used is grown on large farms.
Tobacco